Courtesy to Twitter user XdanielArt (date of publication: 8 June 2024)
No open source Flash alternatives? Disappointing.
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What happened to Audacity?
See other comments: Got bought up by some company and then enshittified.
Just started using reaper, coming over from audition and it's so similar I didn't have to re-learn anything.
REAPER rules. I started on ProTools in 2010. Ditched it for Reaper in 2012 and never looked back. Best $60 I ever spent. I've gladly bought multiple licenses for my devices over the years.
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lol. coreldraw is fucking terrible
Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.
The whole suite is great.
Really nervous to get into that ecosystem after they were bought by the Canva crew
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Kinda hilarious that anyone uses Premiere Pro when Resolve is better, and free (with very optional features locked behind 1-time paywall). David Manning had a revelation and made a video about this recently. As did PewDiePie.
Davinci Resolve has to be one of the most jam packed free software packages available… seriously, it absolutely trounces Premiere at evvvverything
the model of free for everything except if features you’d want for producing a professional movie, and financed by hardware sales - that you don’t need unless you’re a professional - is absolutely incredible for home users
Just a small thing, but as of the latest release Inkscape has a functioning live-trace tool
It was one of the biggest things keeping me using illustrator but I used inkscape's trace yesterday and it worked great
How much time have you put into Inkscape now? I'm hankering for some reviews from people who are also refugees from the Adobe ecosystem.
I don't use it regularly enough to weigh in comprehensively- I use it mostly for processing svg drawings created in other programs for cnc plotting, or for compiling svg drawings onto standardized layouts for sending to a printer
My only complaint with inkscape is that it's a bit slow with rendering complex shapes/canvases with many points, but otherwise it does everything I need from a vector program.
The CNC plug in is so useful! I also made my wedding save the dates in it and some figures for a scientific manuscript: worked great.
I've never used vector programs. What is a "live tracer"?
It's a tool that helps 'trace' a raster image into vector shapes and paths
it's useful for creating vector artwork from raster images - sometimes a logo or icon is only available in a poor resolution raster image, and so having an easy way to convert it into vector saves a ton of time.
I used it yesterday to create an SVG file for CNC plotting of a company logo. It would have taken me a few hours to hand-trace it myself
I sometimes get commissioned to make a logo here and there. This would come in very handy.
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This graphic is missing Bitwig in the AU section. Definitely worth mentioning since it runs on Linux/OS X/Win.
I've never used Photoshop but I have used Photopea and people tell me it's exactly the same: https://www.photopea.com/
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