Free Open Source Alternatives for Adobe Creative Suite

Software
#24

And Sorry to spam the thread. The original post 10 years ago was:

I found that throughout my college years and early in my career, I did not have the funds to obtain the Adobe software. Even purchasing the educational version of the software was beyond my reach. Adobe’s monopoly in the creative software market has always bothered me. While their products have always remained strong, the lack of competition has created high price points. I also thought it was well beyond the reach of most artists or children that simply wanted to dabble with digital art.

Now it turns out to post Only Open source, instead of Free. But, again ok :o)

#25

I think you misunderstand this thread. It’s not Free AND Open Source. It’s Free Open Source.

If you want to start another thread of free software go for it. :slight_smile: Just make sure it’s actually free and not a trial version… because that is just a pain in the butt :wink:

We try keep this list up to date. If a program has changed and is no longer open source, we will check it out and update accordingly.

#26

This is great, thanks! I hope we have an opensource PROJECT FILES (.psd, .psb, .ae, .idd etc.) template sharing. Cheers!

#27

I’ve only worked with gimp a few times. Aside from the obvious fact it’s free, the user face takes a little getting used to, but some of the general advantages I would say are 1) it’s updated more often than PS. 2) Being open source, it’s very customizable, and there are always new user-developed plugins & tweaks & twerks being released.

I personally use Photoshop with XP-Pen Artist 12 Pro display drawing pad . It’s the best thing I ever did for photo editing. It’s seriously amazing.

#28

now that my MacBook Air can type without a Bluetooth keyboard nestle on the base, Krita just does not compare to Adobe’s Photoshop or Illustrator. Krita is good though and can do many graphic tasks but the overall use and functions are weak, which show in the designs i created this autumn. Even Microsoft Expressions does not compare to Dreamweaver for overall use.

#29

Farging Artists. Pass all the info they don’t understand to the printer so we can have the conniption.

#30

Glad I checked this list. Just got done using DaVinci on a small video editing project and I found it so much better than what I had been doing with iMovie. Thanks for compiling all these! :pray:t3: