Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is amazing and very powerful. But unless you are in the business of producing commercial output that makes you money, it is an overkill, and frankly too expensive.
But what are the alternatives ? I would say On1's PhotoRaw 2018.x is the best out there for adjusting photos for optimum output. The cost of PhotoRaw is also far more affordable.
And if you are really penniless, why not give pixlr a whirl. It's really quite good for a web-app.
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I hate that photoshop and everything adobe went subscription based ended up stop using it myself.
exactly.. and the free competitors are getting to a point where basic stuff are easily done too..
Just look at what DavinciResolve15 by BlackMagicDesigns can do... even the free version does so much.. can replace Adobe Effects, Premiere and more
If you have any ethics or care about security, a free(libre) license software is really the only way to go. So for my IT students I recommend GIMP and Inkscape. The learning slope is not too steep. They have pretty much all the graphics power you ever need, and for scripting I would use either Imagemagick or the Python image manipulation libraries.
Then I would ask, why would anyone ever risk using closed source proprietary software? With the FLOSS alternatives there is no reason.
GIMP is pretty good. there is also a graphics scripting language called processing
which is pretty cool
while we are at it, lets add Canva into the Mix
Animation : there is Opentoons
Color Grading : DavinciResolve15 by BlackMagic
With version 15, it can do effects composition, audio composition 3D text etc.. very cool