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
Updated my comment: OpenCreativity
There’s also GIMP as a Photoshop alternative
And Dark Table as a Lightroom alternative
Both are pretty great IMO
Oh, I used to like Krita. That’s disappointing that they’re yet another on the AI train
Why though?
The image generation algorithm is open source and it runs locally. Artists can use it instead of giving up their art to some company to abuse. We’ve had tools like this for years, this is just better and easier to use
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.
Blender has a video editor in it too… hell Im surprised it doesnt have a full photo editing suit in it at this point
Tried it. Personally, didn’t really work for me. Blender is great 3D software, but video editing is not its forte. (And that’s fine! Do one thing and do it well.)
For anyone using Figma, there’s a free open source alternative called PenPot that’s quite decent.
Ligma?
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.
As a counter example there are fields like machine learning where there is a lot of “capitalist” innovation
How is that a counter example? The same 3 - 5 corporations are still in control.
They can and they do innovate regardless of how much you might dislike them.
Did someone manage to uninvent LLMs and the innovations that came shortly before like transformers? EDIT: ah i see that people are gatekeeping the innovations. so are attention networks also “barely useful”? if so why aren’t you guys improving upon it or creating another sham if it’s so meaningless and just smoke you should be able to get a billion in investments.
What’s figma?
Seriously, how will that kill competition? I could probably tell 10 free tools from the top of ma head.
Tell us just ONE that is as capable and effective as Figma.
Designers don’t use Figma because it’s “trendy”, we do it because it’s the best tool for the job. The only free tool that comes even close to being good enough is PenPot, and even that is years away from being a true competitor.
There are collaboration tools in Figma that simply do not exist in the competition, so your ability to list tools that are also capable of drawing rectangles with round corners doesn’t mean anything if you can’t properly manage a design system that is reusable with a team of a dozen designers or more.
Figma is no freebie tool. It’s an industry standard. People train in it and use it for their living.
There are many free tools, sure, but not many tools that are accepted in corporate environments.
Figma is the current trendy choice for design software in big tech. But give it a few years and it’ll change again. Tech is full of followers.
Personally I find it to be absolute garbage. It’s so much harder to navigate and use as a non-designer than something like zeplin.
