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FediFollows ☃️

De-Adobeing picks of the day:

(All of these are free open source software)

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing, forked from Audacity

➡️ @Krita & @krita_artists & @kritafoundation - Painting software, also suitable for drawing, illustration and 2D animation

➡️ @darktable - Photo organising, processing and development

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @blender@video.blender.org & @Blender@mastodon.social & @blenderartists - 3D animation, 2D animation, special effects for live action and editing

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@FediFollows for once I've actually heard of everything here, used darktable occasionally for some DNG files, used to use inkscape before switching to Figma, and I use Blender for like images of 3D models

Derek Brauders

@FediFollows @kdenlive @tenacity @Krita @krita_artists @kritafoundation @darktable @inkscape @blender@video.blender.org @Blender@mastodon.social Might I suggest Faststone Image Viewer for very fast and effective image organising. (Windows only I think). You can add in other editing programmes so it will send them to that application.
I've used it in conjunction with a few editing programmes that don't have a management system. Highly effective.

They don't appear to have any social media presence though.

@FediFollows @kdenlive @tenacity @Krita @krita_artists @kritafoundation @darktable @inkscape @blender@video.blender.org @Blender@mastodon.social Might I suggest Faststone Image Viewer for very fast and effective image organising. (Windows only I think). You can add in other editing programmes so it will send them to that application.
I've used it in conjunction with a few editing programmes that don't have a management system. Highly effective.

Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

@FediFollows I am enjoying Scribus for desktop publishing. It does not create accessible PDFs, unfortunately, but it saves me learning bloated Illustrator to do basic document layout and paying for the privilege.

Diane 🕵

@FediFollows

If you're interested I think there's also a blender community art bot.

mastodon.art/@blenderartists

TheRandomGamerTRG

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If you find Inkskape & Gimp to be too UI heavy for your needs & expertise, a nice alternative is getpaint.net/, a free tool that is much more capable than MS Paint, without the steep learning curve of others.

It is Windows only, and is no longer open source, however.

I would recommend you give it a try.

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