its kirita and/or gimp for photoshop and kdenlive for after effects, I have never used the Adobe stuff and have no clue what exactly is worth the crazy price tag they demand.
I tried gimp back then and a few years ago, it’s clunky, slow, and unintuitive. I haven’t tried krita and seems like the better tool than gimp. People use adobe mostly because of legacy and much more complete software and intergration(seamless export between their software like photoshop straght to premiere). Granted my last experience with adobe is almost two decade ago, so not sure how much changed.
Edit: i tried Inkscape as well a few years ago for vector drawing, it crash often and pretty laggy iirc. Not sure about now though.
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its kirita and/or gimp for photoshop and kdenlive for after effects, I have never used the Adobe stuff and have no clue what exactly is worth the crazy price tag they demand.
Lightroom is quite the standard as well, Darktable is a solid alternative to it though.
I never learned Photoshop, I started with GIMP and I’ve loved it for years
I tried gimp back then and a few years ago, it’s clunky, slow, and unintuitive. I haven’t tried krita and seems like the better tool than gimp. People use adobe mostly because of legacy and much more complete software and intergration(seamless export between their software like photoshop straght to premiere). Granted my last experience with adobe is almost two decade ago, so not sure how much changed.
Edit: i tried Inkscape as well a few years ago for vector drawing, it crash often and pretty laggy iirc. Not sure about now though.