The Best Adobe Alternatives in 2023
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2023
- Adobe is a powerhouse in the graphics industry with programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance and Premiere being industry standards. For a variety of different reasons, from cost to a dislike of subscriptions or just disliking Adobe in general, you may be looking for an alternative. In this video we look at alternatives, both paid and free (and often open source) to Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere/After Effects and Substance Designer/Painter, then close with a large list of alternative choices maintained by Kenney of Kenney.nl fames.
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I'm really surprised you haven't even reviewed Cavalry Pro yet. The program is a real marvel
Personally, I hope the subscription model bankrupts every software company that tries it, especially those that have been in business for years and had mere incremental updates to their software. If you do any software development you'll understand why that angers me so much.
I got all the Carol products on Humble Bundle for $25, and I love Paint 2022! I use it on my 2-1 notebook with stylus.
I bough at launch all the Serif suite version 2! It is amazing!
Great video. I have always avoided Adobe stuff and use some of the apps you mentioned. Affinity designer is hard to beat but I hate affinity photo and use Pixelmator Pro instead which is awesome. Apple Motion must be the best motion graphics and animation app in terms of price/value and I use it all the time, along with one time purchase Final cut. Moho Pro is absolutely fantastic for 2d animation. I use unreal a lot for animation too and the biggest news for years for me was the resurrection of Lightwave 3D, which is still my 3d app of choice as Blender just seems a nightmare to use in comparison. Lightwave can currently be bought for 500 with 2023 coming out as a free upgrade at the end of the year. Everybody has seen a ton of lightwave over the years in hundreds of films and tv shows but it fallen behind with neglect over the years but it’s still kick ass and just going to get better. Anyway I manage to make a living without subscriptions and over about 20 years I have spent a fraction of going the Adobe route. Do I miss out on things? Of course but I am not tied to Adobe. If i had sunk 10’s of thousands of dollars into them then I don’t have any flexibility plus a lot of people who use adobe stuff tend to use their stock library and things start to look a bit samey. Having my own toolkit makes my work less ‘Adobified’
the corpo hold needs to stop ! XD rly nice video, honestly might move to some of those. Did move from 3dsmax when Bender was 2.7 and im happy with it ;)
Natron needs more exposure. So much potential behind it thank you for showing it here
I remember downloading Natron because it's a free alternative to After Effects, but I have yet to learn how to use it. It definitely looks like there's a steep learning curve just from the interface.
I thought the developers abandoned it
@@richiesmeckgeckscas46Natron es un clon de Nuke (aunque no tan potente) entiendes uno sabes usar el otro
There's nothing really to compete with After Effects where you can import video and then digitally paint over with raster effects apart from Adobe Photoshop...
TVPaint is just way too expensive while Krita and Clip Studio just don't cut it for me and I had a quick look at Natron from your video but it's more like Da Vinci Resolve.
Hopefully someone can suggest something I've never considered before?
You convinced me to get Affinity Photo and Designer. I like the software a lot, though I'm still unlearning some workflows from Photoshop.
Wish Designer had a layout (known as flexbox in web) tool to easily scale and update elements, though I'm thinking of using Penpot for such designs in the future.
Yeah there are certainly some workflows that don't translate well between the two apps and there are some odd and occasionally glaring missing features, but once you get used to it, the Affinity apps punch WELL above their price tags. Hope you over all are happy with my recommendation.
I'm pretty sure you should be able to do the scaling you describe. What exactly is it you are trying to accomplish.
@@gamefromscratch I'm not really sure if paying for Affinity Designer is even worth since beta version of Inkscape 1.3 came out, with shape builder and other features. Also Affinity designer still misses Image Trace.
Two things that I don't like about Affinity since I use them a lot:
1) Batch edits to files are a bit convuluted and even with their macros there are a lot of quirks, such as it auto-cropping any images that you resize, which already needed a convuluted workflow to do.
2) There's no option to slice an image along the guides. This has been noted and asked for from Affinity users for _years_ and they haven't added it for whatever internal problems it'd cause.
As someone who works with pixel arts sprite sheets (and I don't want to use Libresprite since I also work with other things) both of those things come up quite a bit.
Oh, and a bonus one: For whatever reason the Pixel Art scaling tool, as cool as it could've been, blurs the hell out of any images with transparency since it doesn't use nearest neighbor.
If it used NN then I'd have just created a macro for using that command than the convuluted way of creating a filled box exactly double the dimentions of the image, 'uncropping' the image to that size, scaling the 'background' layer to the new size using an specific filter to change the size based on a formula, and then deleting the box before outputing that result, which still gets cropped anyway. That's all in the action that I created so that I could batch scale a folder of x1 image to x2. Naturally, doing it manually produces the desired result, but I didn't want to have to do that for 300+ files.
Other that those very specific issues, and the fact that it keeps nagging me to upgrade when I'm not ready to do so yet, I consider it a great program for the price!
The best alternative to Adobe Animate is actually Rive because both output interactive content.
I've definitely been using Krita a lot for digital art and making CZcams thumbnails. I'm starting to try out Krita's vector tools (Krita has vector tools even though its main focus is raster graphics), and I'm really liking them.
I do have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, but I've mostly been using it for my college classes since I'm majoring in Graphic Design (with a focus on animation).
What's graphic design like?
@@epicjonny155 I have to take a lot of art and art history classes. Some of the art classes I've had were pretty fun so far.
We are still waiting for that Natron video lol. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Affinity Photo is like 80% there, 3 can surely be a good Photoshop replacement,
Selections are a bit clunky, its taking up to a second to display your layer preview, you can't change your colors or brush on a hotkey, it needs to sort out some basics still
Designer feels definitely much easier to use than Illustrator.
I still prefer my older Photoshop to Affinity Photo, there's something about the UI that has never gelled with me. However, I definitely prefer Affinity Designer over Illustrator as it has many QOL improvements that AI doesn't have. That was partly because of your earlier video on Designer.
Yeah I agree with that completely.
Affinity Photo fits my needs, and I got it as a bundle and I use it for simple photo edits, but I don't really love it. It just gets the job done.
Affinity Designer though... that one I love and outright prefer over AI.
I just could not stand Adobe bloatware so I migrated to Affinity Photo, but it's UX disaster (even after 5 years of using it). The developers are aware of it but don't plan to do anything about it. The Affinity Photo UX design philosophy has a fascinating way of turning one click/button press action into 10.
Hand up over here for the older version of Photoshop. My versions of CS5.5 and CS6 still do exactly what I want to do, including painting over video.
I have replaced AI with Affinity Designer though. Shame Affinity are just not interested in adding video capability to designer.
10:25 Isn't each entry on Kenney's list tagged for opensource, with the ✨ emoji? The description is right at the start of the list. Or you're talking about something else?
Also, I too wish Inkscape had better performance. I can get used to the interface, but the slowdowns are really annoying, specially with images and effects (blur, alpha, clipping/masking).
Yeah, I once tried to use inkscape to do a small edit on a character's arm. It took 20 minutes to load the change, and while it was a full character, it was still relatively few control points.
Getting users to invest in speed improvements is the real trick. 😜
Inkscape 1.3 (on Windows 11 at least) has vastly improved performance (zooming in/out, deleting lots of nodes at once, etc.) It's the new "OpenGL" mode. You can also speed out the blur/alpha/etc. a lot by changing some of the setting in Preferences > rendering.
Nice video,1 question. Mixer software is completly free? or regalies like UE?
Mixer is completely free (in terms of the software). You can download it and use it 100% with your own content, completely free.
However it also integrates in with Quixel's MegaScans library and that part is paid (unless you use Unreal Engine, then it's also free).
I have been wanting to switch to Krita for a long time, but alas, they still have big problems with graphics tablet support. Not all models are supported
It's very strange since in the same Windows there is Windows ink or something like that. I don't know why they don't use it. 😿
Nah Marmoset toolbag is closest competitor to substance. Toolbag 4 can do very advanced texture painting on top of being one of the best normal map bakers. (it's a "pay once" software ,that still delivers updates and recently upgraded their material texture painting capability even)
You know its amazing to me how in each of these videos you get something wrong and I wonder if you do that to get people to reply in the comment section. Also you actually made a video about Toolbag 4 like 2 years ago and I bought it and it still delivers updates.
Some people probably discovering that Adobe had Ai way before it was trendy 🤣
what about after effects alternatives?
Epic content here.
I love affinity, but I am in a Ubuntu machine. Inkscape hasn't been bad in all honesty.
it is just weird that Affinity does not want to support Linux.
Huge wasted opportunity, especially with more and more people now leaving Windows with W11 being so crap, and Mac OS already being supported.
I use inkscape and as a new guy on that software, I think it does everything that we need.
Inkscape 1.3 is awesome (in beta currently). Continued to blow away infinity in overall ability. And one main caveat (slow zooming) is much mitigated with Opengl support to accelerate that.
@@GugureSux It's not that weird. Desktop Linux is a bit of a challenge to the politics of these companies. It's not just an alternative operating system. If you're sitting there thinking that strong arming customers into proprietary protection money is super cool; the last thing you want is some hippy commune moving in telling everyone they don't have to bend the knee any more. Or maybe their just really dumb. It's hard to know for sure. 😉
Politics ladies and gentlemen. It's all politics.
Wow, not even Mike is safe from the scammers.
Thank you! Really sick of the constant updates of Adobe and how much space the programs zap on my computer. I’m a broke ass artist and can’t afford to spend time on constantly freeing space up in my computer (let alone buying a new one). Plus I have decent internet speed….but it seems to really require a bit more than what I have at times….once again I’m not rich and I’m not paying more than what I already am for internet. Gonna have to check these out.
Moho 14 is out your extremely behind and it's absolutely amazing
Shout-out to KennyNL for doing awesome work!
Nice
same here Affinity is the best
A.I. tool took over completely
Just got Adobe add on this video)
DaVinci Resolve isn't completely free. Many features and effects are paywalled
I'm really surprised you haven't even reviewed Cavalry Pro yet. The program is a real marvel .
software animation 2d?, Cool. Is completly free?
Honestly wasn't really on my radar, I'll give it a boo.
The animation software? I've heard of it and been tempted to try it but don't really need animation software. I still like to try things though, so I may finally check it out.
There is no good alternative for Photoshop and Illustrator. I tried Affinity software but i didn't like how Blending options was done in Affinity Photo. For new use it could be just fine but since i am in print/design industry, Photoshop is the way to go but the Pantone is not supported anymore to that bothers me too. At work, i use Krita sometimes because i am too lazy to remote to a pc that has Adobe licenses. GIMP is absolute garbage but i do use it ONLY to generate Specular Map for 3D stuff. I guess that Photoshop is hard to copy.
There is also Clip Studio paint if you like to paint, Mike didn't mention all the solutions here , I guess cause they don't give him sponsorship or something.
@redheadsg1
I'll agree with you on Photoshop, especially for the print/ design industry but Designer has now replaced illustrator for me. For one or two things, I still use Inkscape - that does things illustrator and Designer can't / won't do.
Mind you - Adobe is going to bring AI into all the major Apps and that will see them leave competitors behind I guess.
Umm, Affinity Photo is underrated. It does somethings better then photoshop, including frequency separation for retouching... I use the desktop version..
I love photopea, never really liked gimp, always felt clunky to me
Natron was meant to be the FOSS answer/equivalent to Nuke. It was a University project being maintained by two people, a number We believe has since fallen to zero, sadly. We would point people to the Fusion tab of Resolve or Fusion standalone.
Stop recommending GIMP...please?
I only have 3 programs: premiere pro, photoshop and Lightroom.
Too bad Clip Studio Paint isn't in the list, cause in my opinion Clip Studio Paint is like DaVinci Resolve but for art.
What I mean by that is, DaVinci Resolve combines Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Media Encoder, and it's own section for color correction cause of how good it is since it started out as a color correction plugin, all being in just 1 app.
While Clip Studio Paint combines Photoshop (as in Raster drawing, NOT photo editing), illustrator (Vector drawing), Animate, and also for comic for how amazing comic is since it started out as Comic plugin all in just 1 app. Lol XD
You forgot Reallusion cartoon animator pro for 2D animation
What to we want? Freedom from Adobe!
Free industry for Adobe!
Natron 💪
Material Maker is a great software, also built in godot
Inkscape has no CMYK mode
After 2 months using Adobe Acrobat at $20 per month, Adobe CHARGED $90 CANCELLATION FEE! Outrageous!!
Photopea pretty sluggish in performance.
Adobe Audition -> Reaper DAW ;)
Anyone else get an Adobe CC ad for this video? 😠
Generative AI just sealed the deal for Ps.😅
This video is already outdated, sir.
Adobe Firefly can be substituted by Stable Diffusion, but not completely.
Gimp use to be a lot better, over 20 years ago. When I started to use it, Gimp could do a lot more than Photoshop: Making seamless images from a filter, and editing and making gif animations, was only possible in Gimp, but these days Photoshop is better than Gimp.
while completely free, gimp's instability is a pain in the ass. go with affinity photo instead if you can afford it.
photos -> darktable
Remember its allways morally correct !!
Now where did i put that hat ?
Blud said after effects and premiere were sort of the same thing 💀
The alternative is to use adobe products but don't pay for them. Adobe software is still superior due to all of the ressources they have, and you need to know how to use them if you want to work with a team.
Yeah, piracy. I hope your "free" versions of Adobe give you the vilest malware.
@@ChrisAguilar Enjoy being unemployable because of your lack of skills in the very basic tools. Affinity can't even do basic stuff such as easily copy pasting textures in RGBA channels.
@@ChrisAguilar hang on mate, I paid for my Creative Suite years ago - full price. Apart from the new fancy AI tools coming in - there's very little that CC23 does that I can't do in CS6 however Adobe have been talking about taking legit buyers like me to court for using software they now want me to pay monthly for despite no significant progress with them.
I know I made my money back many times over - but I'm not a fan of paying for Adobe Products these last 12 years when there was no real benefit over my older copy. The only real benefit/innovation in the last 12 years was dynamic linking so I could open a PS file in AE and vice versa but that would have cost me over $24000 just for that alone and I am part of a small studio.
Not worth it.
@@ghosteyes2708 Being unemployed is no excuse for stealing.
@@fablewalls
I also despise Adobe "Mate".
However.
Pirates/Thieves say that all the time, "Um, I bought the old version and the new version isn't that great of an improvement, so it's my right/privilege to pirate it!"
If the new version isn't that great, then why not stay on your old version (that you legit bought)?
Yeah, you want the new stuff and don't want to pay for it. Standard pirates justification for what they're "owed".
I prefer free adobe suite
Yarrrh?
I hope your pirated copy gives you the vilest malware.
@@ChrisAguilar that's a strange hope to have
Wake me when Affinity Photo adds AI 🤖 Without it, many apps like Photomator seem more appealing
Houdini is going to compete with SD and SP finally. They are currently working on it, and luckily, we will see the first iteration of it for H20.
Affinity photo costs $70 not 50, and you forgot to mention the fact that the major 2 version was not a free update.
Yep, version 2 has some nice things, but still lacking in features compared to Inkscape 1.3, so no, affinity will not get me to upgrade.
I think you could have probably done an entire video for each adobe product, there are so many alternatives out there it get pretty nutty at times lol
Still it's always awesome to see people talking about alternatives to subscription based software, the devil's pricing model
Adobe products are extremely fantastic. I just hate their greedy cloud monetisation method. Alternatives to adobe products are usually inferior especially the open source ones. I used Inkscape last 3 months and it is the worst software I tried to use. Looks more like someone's computer science final year project. It's just not a tool that someone will pay for, just like 99% of open source software. Blender is an exception. I will happily pay 600 bucks for an Adobe program as long as I can have it for life.
I didn't like Inkscape either, same goes for Gimp. I still prefer my older PS compared to Affinity Photo but Affinity Designer now wins over my older AI for the work I do.
There are ways to get your last wish....say no more.
I have a similar feel toward Inkscape. I want to like it, but the interface to be is obtuse and the performance is subpar.
In this case though, Affinity Designer is a banger of a product and an extremely easy recommendation, especially with such a reasonable and non-subscription price tag.
@@gamefromscratch Welcome to the wonderful world of GTK as far as the UI goes when it comes to Inkscape and GIMP.
@@gamefromscratch I agree. Affinity is great. Although I prefer Illustrator.
Hitfilm was recently bought out and nearly abandoned. Runs like shit and isn't getting upgraded/bugfixed. Stay away!
Its unfortunate too, as it was the closest thing to an After Effects clone.
Its ok to pirate adobe software.
The only reason I use Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects are plugins. I hate Adobe products. They're outdated in every regard. Only plugins keep them going.
If it wasn't for plugins I would dump Adobe in a flash. Resolve just doesn't have enough features to cover all the plugins I use. The company itself is not exactly a saint either.
Yoh,
Ill save you the litany of lewd language id love to lob at Adobe's powerhouse position. Instead, ill simply thank you for putting this together. As im actively looking for Adobe alternatives. So thanks, Mike at GamesFromScratch.
As always, take care and have a good one