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Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE,

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issues with Adobe products as well. A really awesome thing about Inkscape for me is how it uses standard SVG as its default file format. It makes a lot of sense and makes the raw artwork highly exportable and flexible.

toastal 5y ago
darktable + Hugin have me covered for photography. I just want better Wayland support. Specifically I'm waiting for Wayland to get color management merged--even if it only supports standard definition and old ICC profile formats as a stop-gap.
- siver_john 5y ago
  Never had seen Hugin before, I was wondering how people did that open source recently. And with respect to color management and Wayland with the rumored next release of nvidia drivers potentially supporting Wayland that's about the only thing that would stop me from switching on all my machines. I know there is an open issue for working on that in both the Wayland official protocols and wl-roots so hopefully soon.
  - toastal 5y ago
    Hugin has gotten me great results in the past. My most popular panorama (https://flic.kr/p/2gw93QX https://flic.kr/p/2gw93QX), you can't even find the seams despite being quite wide at 5 × 3 shots. It handled 16-shot panoramas well too (https://flic.kr/p/GLsDNh https://flic.kr/p/GLsDNh), even though Flickr won't render those resolutions. I've even used it for focus stacking (https://flic.kr/p/27kMsrX https://flic.kr/p/27kMsrX) to keep a narrow depth-of-field on an object that needed 2 focus points to stay sharp.
- Bad_CRC 5y ago
  Darktable is amazing.
valesco 5y ago
How did you replace AE?
- avhon1 5y ago
  Blender is remarkably good for video editing and compositing.
- mekkkkkk 5y ago
  Admittedly I'm only dabbling on a hobby level when it comes to video editing and composition. For what I've been doing Blender has been more than sufficient. It has a pretty good track editor a la Premiere and you can use the composition pipeline to enhance visuals. Of course Blender also provides everything you'd need for visual effects, tracking and separate passes since it's a full 3D suite as well.
- ramses0 5y ago
  https://shotcut.org https://shotcut.org - has done fairly well for me. I believe `DaVinci - Resolve` is a paid tool which also has a free linux version (with restrictions). Honestly, video editing can be crashy and resource-intensive so don't be afraid to pay for something.
  - andrei_says_ 5y ago
    Davinci Resolve is free on all platforms. Davinci Resolve Studio is paid, with lifetime license which includes upgrades forever.
    - cronix 5y ago
      > Davinci Resolve Studio is paid And only $300. Once. Resolve is amazing. It replaced both Premiere and AE in my studio. Not bad for something that used to cost about $600k. You can get away with a hell of a lot in the free version as well. History of Resolve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvP5_HFQSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvP5_HFQSk
  - shard 5y ago
tombert 5y ago
I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.
- DarkWiiPlayer 5y ago
  Have you looked at synfig? I haven't gotten to use it yet, but it seems like it might be of use to you
  - tombert 5y ago
    Oh my, I haven't looked at Synfig in nearly a decade! I found it pretty unusable and clunky back then, but ten years might as well be a century for OSS. I'll give it a try.
- klaussilveira 5y ago
  Have you tried working with Blender's Grease Pencil? https://www.blender.org/features/grease-pencil/ https://www.blender.org/features/grease-pencil/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrvfmhI9h8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrvfmhI9h8
  - tombert 5y ago
    I have not, though I would be somewhat surprised if it is as straightforward to use as Flash/Animate. I'll give it a try soon.
- marcodiego 5y ago
  Glaxnimate is evolving well: https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/
- logicalshift 5y ago
  I've been working on one for a while now that's very slowly coming together: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween if you're interested. I've been building out some backend stuff lately so there's a bunch of new features waiting to go in. https://github.com/Logicalshift/flo_draw https://github.com/Logicalshift/flo_draw has some demonstrations of the sort of procedural animation features I'm planning on adding, for instance.
dpacmittal 5y ago
I wish we had an alternative to photoshop as well. Personally, for me, gimp doesn't even come close to what photoshop has to offer.
- hollander 5y ago
  Not open source but affordable without subscription model: Affinity Photo. They have more tools. Windows, Mac and iPad, not Linux sadly.
- mekkkkkk 5y ago
  Krita has been a perfectly adequate replacement for me as a bitmap editor. It's more stable and more refined than Gimp in my experience. It's obviously not a carbon copy of PS, so if you depend on certain PS features ymmv.
Panqueca_do_mar 5y ago
I bought affinity photo and design on sale ($50 for both) and they have solved my need to have Adobe PS and Illustrator. As for After Effects / Premiere Pro I've been using DaVinci Resolve / HitFilm.

toastal 5y ago

darktable + Hugin have me covered for photography. I just want better Wayland support. Specifically I'm waiting for Wayland to get color management merged--even if it only supports standard definition and old ICC profile formats as a stop-gap.

siver_john 5y ago
Never had seen Hugin before, I was wondering how people did that open source recently. And with respect to color management and Wayland with the rumored next release of nvidia drivers potentially supporting Wayland that's about the only thing that would stop me from switching on all my machines. I know there is an open issue for working on that in both the Wayland official protocols and wl-roots so hopefully soon.
- toastal 5y ago
  Hugin has gotten me great results in the past. My most popular panorama (https://flic.kr/p/2gw93QX https://flic.kr/p/2gw93QX), you can't even find the seams despite being quite wide at 5 × 3 shots. It handled 16-shot panoramas well too (https://flic.kr/p/GLsDNh https://flic.kr/p/GLsDNh), even though Flickr won't render those resolutions. I've even used it for focus stacking (https://flic.kr/p/27kMsrX https://flic.kr/p/27kMsrX) to keep a narrow depth-of-field on an object that needed 2 focus points to stay sharp.
Bad_CRC 5y ago
Darktable is amazing.

valesco 5y ago

How did you replace AE?

avhon1 5y ago
Blender is remarkably good for video editing and compositing.
mekkkkkk 5y ago
Admittedly I'm only dabbling on a hobby level when it comes to video editing and composition. For what I've been doing Blender has been more than sufficient. It has a pretty good track editor a la Premiere and you can use the composition pipeline to enhance visuals. Of course Blender also provides everything you'd need for visual effects, tracking and separate passes since it's a full 3D suite as well.
ramses0 5y ago
https://shotcut.org https://shotcut.org - has done fairly well for me. I believe `DaVinci - Resolve` is a paid tool which also has a free linux version (with restrictions). Honestly, video editing can be crashy and resource-intensive so don't be afraid to pay for something.
- andrei_says_ 5y ago
  Davinci Resolve is free on all platforms. Davinci Resolve Studio is paid, with lifetime license which includes upgrades forever.
  - cronix 5y ago
    > Davinci Resolve Studio is paid And only $300. Once. Resolve is amazing. It replaced both Premiere and AE in my studio. Not bad for something that used to cost about $600k. You can get away with a hell of a lot in the free version as well. History of Resolve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvP5_HFQSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvP5_HFQSk
- shard 5y ago

tombert 5y ago

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

DarkWiiPlayer 5y ago
Have you looked at synfig? I haven't gotten to use it yet, but it seems like it might be of use to you
- tombert 5y ago
  Oh my, I haven't looked at Synfig in nearly a decade! I found it pretty unusable and clunky back then, but ten years might as well be a century for OSS. I'll give it a try.
klaussilveira 5y ago
Have you tried working with Blender's Grease Pencil? https://www.blender.org/features/grease-pencil/ https://www.blender.org/features/grease-pencil/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrvfmhI9h8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrvfmhI9h8
- tombert 5y ago
  I have not, though I would be somewhat surprised if it is as straightforward to use as Flash/Animate. I'll give it a try soon.
marcodiego 5y ago
Glaxnimate is evolving well: https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/
logicalshift 5y ago
I've been working on one for a while now that's very slowly coming together: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween if you're interested. I've been building out some backend stuff lately so there's a bunch of new features waiting to go in. https://github.com/Logicalshift/flo_draw https://github.com/Logicalshift/flo_draw has some demonstrations of the sort of procedural animation features I'm planning on adding, for instance.

dpacmittal 5y ago

I wish we had an alternative to photoshop as well. Personally, for me, gimp doesn't even come close to what photoshop has to offer.

hollander 5y ago
Not open source but affordable without subscription model: Affinity Photo. They have more tools. Windows, Mac and iPad, not Linux sadly.
mekkkkkk 5y ago
Krita has been a perfectly adequate replacement for me as a bitmap editor. It's more stable and more refined than Gimp in my experience. It's obviously not a carbon copy of PS, so if you depend on certain PS features ymmv.

Panqueca_do_mar 5y ago

I bought affinity photo and design on sale ($50 for both) and they have solved my need to have Adobe PS and Illustrator. As for After Effects / Premiere Pro I've been using DaVinci Resolve / HitFilm.