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[โ€“] 314xel@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Any recommendations for Lightroom?

[โ€“] akakunai@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've always heard good things about Darktable as an alternative to Lightroom, but I do not have experience using it so irdk.

Alternatively there is always the high-seas version of Adobe CC. I wouldn't be too concerned with the ethics of it seeing as this is Adobe we're talking about ๐Ÿคฎ.

[โ€“] nzeayn@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

been using Darktable for years now. had the same trouble with it as people going photoshop to gimp have at first, because my brain was all in lightroom. once i sat down and watched some videos of people explaining their own darktable process and experimented new workflows. it became everything lightroom was, but without the constantly scolding me about bumping my subscription adobe did.

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[โ€“] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Is there any good alternative to adobe animate?

[โ€“] yum@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 4 months ago

I have been searching for years man... No luck

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[โ€“] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 months ago

Gimp should be released with photopeas

[โ€“] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Lol Free Software?

[โ€“] Corigan@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How about the iinux version of AutoCAD?

[โ€“] Scafir@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Freecad is getting more and more attention. When version 1.0 releases (soon), it will be something worth checking out, but there is still work to do.

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[โ€“] Aermis@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I got a 3d printer (bambu p1s per someone's recommendation here) but the bambu software allows very little in the realm of adjusting a print (size for example is mostly what I can do).

I've been heavily overwhelmed looking into a 3d software editing platform to adjust prints. I don't have the capacity to learn multiple softwares, but I heard blender does pretty poorly in creating prints with hard dimensions.

While I do like to explore the realm of figurines and characters to print, I tend to use my printer for more engineered prints, things I measure and need a replacement for, or to fill in the need of something I'm I'm constructing.

This is where Adobe got most of the positive reviews for a 3d software that's best of both worlds. Creative and engineered. While blender is heavily leaning towards creative.

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[โ€“] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

InDesign had those text boxes that you could link to the next text box with the little red plus, and the words would flow back and forth. It's the only thing in all of the Adobe Creative Suite that I miss! FUCK ADOBE, GIMP FOR LIFE!

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[โ€“] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Or just pirate everything lol

[โ€“] Turious@leaf.dance 2 points 4 months ago

Trying to learn how to use Natron felt impossible. It's a very different approach to what it does and I could not even start to figure it out.

[โ€“] suzune@ani.social 2 points 4 months ago

It's always the same. Many people tell you how a software is not a replacement for other software. Of course it isn't, because otherwise it would be exactly the same piece of software.

Tell me a replacement for LaTeX, Postfix, zsh, vim or OpenSSH. There isn't, because these are the best from my point of view.

Instead of recommending one alternative, you sometimes need to combine them. The most powerful tools are btw combinable in a tool chain and the best are controllable from common scripting or programming languages.

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