It’s been a distressing trend over the last decade, that of taking commercial software from a paid-for licence model and moving into the cloud and onto a rental model. In out line, we’v…

“The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model.”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I’ve never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.

  • 257m@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    FOSS alternatives for the Adobe suite already exist. What is the point in creating a new proprietary suite when you can already use the preexisting solutions for free.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      No, no, the existing software is imperfect, a new piece of (imperfect) software must be created to remedy to this intolerable situation. Nothing else will do.

    • UnhappyCamper@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The only alternatives I’m ever told about is Gimp (which sucks, I don’t care what anyone says) or Krita, which while a good program, is not the same. I also think you have to pay for Krita on Windows, but its free on Linux for some reason.

      What else is out there?

      • 257m@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Krita is free on windows aswell. Do not install from windows store they are charging due to a store fee. Instead simply build it from source or download the nightly build from the website.

      • 257m@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Darktable, Inkscape, Seashore, Sumo paint, PhotoScape, RawTherapee, MyPaint, Pixia, Pinta, Shotwell etc…

        It’s pratically every year a new one comes out and due to their open source nature you can simply send them a git ticket if there is a missing feature. You can even contribute to the project yourself if the authors aren’t responding.