Best Free Alternatives To Adobe Creative Suite

[Music] if you do any kind of digital media creation then there's no question that Adobe's Creative Suite is the industry standard it comes with the price though and unlike other types of software products it's an ongoing price you're never done paying for Adobe software and because of that you may be put off by the prospect of doing any kind of serious media creation you don't have to let that stop you any longer though because there's plenty of free alternatives to choose from and in this video I'll be outlining some of them and you can find download links for each software in the description of the video Photoshop is Adobe's flagship product and it's become a brand in and of itself it's an enhanced photo manipulation tool that allows you to edit photos in any way imaginable a good free alternative to photoshop would be which stands for GNU image manipulation program much like Photoshop allows you to manipulate photos in any way imaginable and it's a completely free and open-source application that was made by a team of dedicated volunteers it has a lot of the same features and functionality as Photoshop and unlike Photoshop you can run on Linux without the need for Windows and you laters I have hundreds of tutorials in this channel if you're interested in learning more about how to use another great alternative to photoshop would be Krita which is geared more towards digital painting and 2d animation like Krita is also free and open-source and one thing i really like about it is that it allows you to output files with a CMYK color profile this is actually pretty rare among free and open-source programs finally there's photo pea which is a web based photo editor that is eerily similar to photoshop both and how it looks and how it functions one thing I really like about photo pea is having the ability to work with smart objects like you would in Photoshop if you're already familiar with Photoshop then you will have no problem getting used to photo P and the fact that it's a web-based application means you'll be able to use it with any operating system lightroom is an application for organizing photos and it also allows you to make some common edits to things like color channels white balance contrast and exposure it doesn't have a lot of the more advanced editing features found in photoshop like layers and filter effects Lightroom is geared more towards working with batches of photos and allows you to sort through and organize them more efficiently one free alternative to Lightroom would be darktable which has a lot of the same photo manipulation and library management features that Lightroom has darktable is described as an open-source virtual light table and darkroom for photographers that allows you to edit raw images another free alternative to Lightroom would be raw therapy which much like darktable in Lightroom allows for bulk management of photos along with some editing features Adobe Illustrator is a tool for creating scalable vector graphics and digital illustrations it's used to create things like logos icons user interface for web and mobile applications and product packaging the best free alternative to illustrator in my opinion would be Inkscape and if you are subscribed to this channel then you are certainly no stranger to Inkscape I have hundreds of videos on this channel demonstrating how to design things like logos and various other illustrations along with an entire course where I go through every tool and feature and explain how it works scape has everything necessary for vector design and it falls short to illustrator in only a very few areas another free alternative to illustrator would be vector com which is a web-based vector graphics editor with the very simple and clean interface that makes it easy to learn it doesn't have some of the more extensive features you'd normally find an illustrator in Inkscape but if all you need is a quick and simple vector design then it may be a good fit for you InDesign is a desktop publishing application ideal for creating books magazines newspapers brochures and anything else that calls for a lot of written copy InDesign offers a bit more versatility when working with text as opposed to some of the other applications that are more graphic centric a good free alternative to InDesign would be Scribus which is a free and open source page layout program originally designed for Linux but also available on Windows and Mac much like InDesign Scribus is equipped with all of the features needed to produce professional publications another option would be lucid press a web-based solution for desktop publishing that aims to be a little more user friendly and easy to understand for inexperienced users this does come at the expense of some of the more extensive features you would normally find in programs like this though and the free version of lucidpress limits you by number of pages and projects for the full experience you'll have to pay for a subscription premier Pro is a fully featured video editor packed with all of the bells and whistles you could possibly need for editing videos and it's what I personally use for my own videos finding a good free alternative to premier is challenging because a lot of the free video editors I've used were lacking in some of the features you would normally expect like having multiple channels graphic overlays picture and picture and the ability to work with green screens the best free alternative to Premiere Pro that I found believe it or not is blender blender is primarily for 3d graphics and animation but it actually has a fully featured video editor built right in and it's really powerful it has all of the bells and whistles you would normally expect from a video editor so there's really nothing you can't do with it and what I really like about blender is that it works flawlessly on Linux anyone who's ever tried editing video on the Linux platforms and though is just how real the struggle is After Effects is used for motion graphics and post-production it allows you to create animated intros lower thirds and various other types of graphical effects one free alternative to After Effects would-be Natron a free and open source application for compositing and motion graphics it can do a lot of the same things After Effects does and they seem to have a lot of support from a bustling community offering over 250 plugins audition allows you to edit and work with sound it offers a multi track and non-destructive environment for mixing and editing the best free alternative that I've found is audacity which is what I personally use to clean up the audio from my own videos it's a free and open source application that lets you work with multiple tracks and I found it to be very useful for noise reduction in working with equalizer levels Adobe Dreamweaver is an HTML editor used for web design with an easy-to-use interface and a built-in code editor that allows for limitless design exploration if you're looking for a free alternative to Dreamweaver your best choice would most likely be blue Griffin which is one of the only actively managed projects that supports html5 and modern CSS Adobe's Creative Suite consists of over 50 different applications but that should do it for the more frequently used programs if you know of any good free alternatives that I may have missed in this video then feel free to let us know in the comments below as always thanks for watching you

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Published: Fri May 15 2020