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Free alternatives to paid software (lemmy.nz)

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

This year i first saw an ad for Photoshop, i see this as a sign of them losing. Keep up the good work folk!

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As someone who loves linux and FOSS some of these are far from being replacements and some of these are even upgrades. It does depend on one's usage though. Like I couldn't tell a Photoshop power user that gimp is a full replacement. I could say though that blender is an upgrade from cinema 4D.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

More people know Premier, but Natron is designed as a clone to the foundry's Nuke.

A better photoshop alternative is photopea. Gimp is it's own mess.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you download and install Photopea or does it still require a Web browser and an online connection to run?

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[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

https://rawtherapee.com/

edit: RAW image editing

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[–] MrRandom@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Affinity Studio should be added, not FOSS but free. I t has a polished UI

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t speak polish though

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This image is crusty

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Kdenlive is fucking awesome and should have been on this list.

[–] chepdamona@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Any one else looked into Graphite? I first found it as a vector editor, but it seems to have widened its scope a fair bit

[–] colderr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How good is DaVinci Resolve on Linux? I have been wanting to switch for a long time now, but I read online that DaVinci doesn’t work that well on Linux, so has it gotten better?

[–] _donnadie_@feddit.cl 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It works best with NVIDIA drivers and with the least workarounds in RHEL type distros (officially it supports Rocky Linux).
Decoding and encoding is really limited, especially in the free version. There's details about codec support in their website.

If you pay for it, and you're already used to distros like Fedora, Rocky, RHEL it pretty much works out of the box. Only Fedora requites some tinkering. There's also tools and workarounds for distros like Arch AFAIK.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Worked fine for me when u used it the other day to make a quick video. Cachyos amd card

Depends on what you use it for i guess

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone have the one where it's all vim lol?

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Is there anything to sort of replace InDesign? I am doing cruel, time consuming, and unspeakable things with latex atm.

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