Adobe already killed almost all competition in the creative space and I hate that. I'm thankful for software like Davinci Resolve and the Affinity apps.
Recently learned about Krita too, which is more for art but it's nice
There's a plugin for AI generation now
I wish we can get a Krita, Inkscape, GIMP ecosystem that rivals their offerings. I recommend these tools to most of my students (gamedev) because they're already great, but if they wanna work in this area in industry they're also forced to learn Adobe..
There is actually a wip project that aims to do just that, unite all these FOSS apps in one, interconnected ecosystem.
I don't remember what it was called, I'll get back to you once I find it again.
It's OpenCreativity
There's also GIMP as a Photoshop alternative
And Dark Table as a Lightroom alternative
Both are pretty great IMO
GIMP was painful to use. Has it gotten any better yet?
Unfortunately, nope.
I'm not sure what you mean, I've found it quite easy to use though it does have a learning curve like most things
When was the last time you tried it?
Used it a few years ago after Blender got the 2.9 treatment. The interface felt very clunky and unintuitive for basic operations compared to anything else. I remember looking at a tutorial and thinking what?
Capture One is not foss but fucking great
Krita is a lot better than Gimp if you need a PS alternative
Obligatory shout out to Blender, the most amazing community project ever. And GPL'd to boot! Suck it Adobe! obscene crotch tugging gestures
Kdenlive is also a really cool video editor. I use it occasionally. You don’t see many professionals using it but honestly it can do a lot more than what most people give it credit for.
Adobe should have Never been allowed to buy Macromedia, what a massive crime that was. I had fully shifted off all Adobe products and was using Macromedia for everything... then that happened. Its all been downhill since that.
For anyone using Figma, there's a free open source alternative called PenPot that's quite decent.
Awesome! Found out about Figma last week so I'll use this instead.
Ligma?
Figma balls
Came here just to be sure SOMEONE said it
Figma dick in Adobe’s mouth
American capitalism no longer innovates. It now only stifles competition through patent abuse, regulations that make market entry difficult to impossible and domination of market resources. If all of that fails then they buy the competition and increase prices before repeating the whole cycle all over again.
This is why my digital art pipeline is FOSS at every turn. I dropped like $300 for Substance Designer / Painter's indie license. I was so excited to learn it.
...and then it got "rolled into the AdObE FaMiLy" and is subscription-only (right after they promised angry users they would do no such thing and we didn't believe it for a second) and now it's mega bloated "iNdUsTrY StAnDaRd" lock-in-ware like the rest.
So I basically just learned my lesson about commercial software rug-pulls.
I heard Steve Jobs died from figma
Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
He's the guy who directed the movie Jaws.
No, that was Steve Spielberg, you're thinking of the guy who jumped all over the Microsoft stage shouting "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOP--gaaaassp--DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!"
No, that's Steve Ballmer, you're thinking of the award-winning lead actor of HBO's hit series: "Boardwalk Empire"
Naw fam, that's Steve Buscemi, you're thinking of that lovable "Crocodile Hunter" who taught us all to love and protect nature by loudly sneaking up to terrifying reptiles and poking them with sticks.
Adobe to the EC: "Figma balls!"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Updated The European Commission says Adobe's proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the region unless the pair devise remedies to resolve this.
The transaction would represent the most expensive sale of a privately owned software company in history, and was flagged as a concern by 16 member states of the European Union in February, such is the lack of credible alternatives to Adobe on the market.
The EC leaned in for an in-depth investigation of the merger in August, and late on Friday evening - in the Euro time zone - it delivered the damning preliminary verdict in a Statement of Objections.
By erasing Figma as a competitive hurdle, Adobe would also tighten its grip on the supply of vector and raster editing tools, the EC added.
The sale was first announced in September 2022, and served to unsettle some developer customers of Figma, ones that were worried Adobe would kill off the free version, or its own XD software, anxiety the clearly EC shares.
The EU's regulator isn't the only one taking a keen interest in the $20 billion merger; the UK's Competition and Markets Authority and the Department of Justice's antitrust team are also inspecting the proposal.
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There is still hope. I’m not holding my breath tough.
I at first thought it was the action figurine company Figma and was very confused.
$20B? Holy shit that's alot
massively over valued if you ask me.. as are most things in the tech sector
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