Not my meme, I stole it from someone else. You wouldn’t know them, they go to a different community.
Or… How about using a different program instead of Adobe’s so that we van eventually change what the “industry standard” is?
I’d argue that there is, but we are just too used to the Lightroom or Photoshop way of thinking/workflow. We don’t entertain other programs because it is difficult to learn a new way of doing things and return to a place of competency. And the less people use a piece of software, the less there will be documentation to help others learn.
I’m not sure if its a conspiracy theory or verified, but I do think that Adobe were okay with people (amateurs) pirating their software. We didn’t have the money to pay for it anyway, but it got us to become proficient at using Photoshop so that when we eventually had money, we were locked in.
I personally stopped using them when you could no longer just buy and own them. Now I just don’t edit my photos much which sucks.
To any artists out there wondering what else they could use. These are some pretty decent alternatives.
Check these foss tools out:
Fwiw, I’ve tried to use OpenShot and it sucked hard. Granted, this was on Windows and it was several years ago (3~4yrs), so it may have gotten better (or it might be way better on Linux), but I ended up switching to davinci resolve because OpenShot literally couldn’t deal with anything above 720p without crashing. I couldn’t complete any university assignments with it. Even just clipping the ends of a video was causing it to crash. Unless OpenShot has gotten significantly better on windows, that’s a good example of a place where a pro-quality FOSS alternative doesn’t really exist.
Oh that’s interesting. I wonder if its any better now for you if you’re interested in trying. It could have been a codec + windows issue at play too.
There’s a few other alternatives for that tool but I can’t think of their names atm.
Kdenlive is miles more capable than OpenShot Also Kubuntu? That’s a OS? Works if you’re trying to replace windows but don’t think any artist would replace it as a “alternative tool”
The one and only time I tried to use kdenlive, it blackscreened my PC and when I booted back up, my Linux Mint showed in the boot menu as just Ubuntu. I went right back to Openshot.
Just switched to krita recently for drawing and it’s so great, the setup is pretty much like photoshop, with all the tool i ever needed.
I don’t even know why i bothered using photoshop to begin with.
And yeah blender is the OG of 3D.
I never used that, depend on what you want to do but i don’t think there is a good builded in way…
So i guess you can look for some other macro tools or using a python script.
Yucky all around, any way you look at it.
It is rough for creatives locked down by Adobe’s software since not many alternatives can do what they need it for.
Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month
Pirate photoshop
Delete it
Pirate again
Repeat 30 times
Adobe looses 660$
If everyone does this adobe will loose so much
