Affinity photo is my Photoshop alternative, especially because their iPad app is super easy to use. $30 one time and it's nearly at feature parity with PS

I think I'm heading back to Adobe. I don't have the patience to deal with getting rid of the ads in the various Corel products. When trying to get reacclimated to them I find myself just griping in my head about the "olden days" of Corel and how much I used to love that software suite. I have no regrets though about the money I spent at Humble Bundle since the bulk went to charity.

Great video! I've been hearing a lot of people bash on the adobe subscription, but really it's a great value for what you're paying for if you consider all the things that you get with it like the Adobe fonts and access to Adobe stock. If you're a graphic designer like myself that stuff is very valuable, not to mention the gazillion other applications you get as well. It's probably not for everybody but honestly if you add up all these little bits and pieces of software that you're purchasing you're probably spending more than $600 a year for these little bundles that probably don't do everything that you needed to do or you need multiple pieces of software to do one thing. Not to mention most of these one time payment software's or free software's is not nearly as far as advanced as something like Adobe. Like you and I employees of companies need to be paid for their work and if they're good they demand a higher salaries. Those payments go to further advance the software. I love affinity products but a one time payment of $50 is the reason why it's not nearly as advanced as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. I can't do my daily job with cheap software, let me correct that, I can do my job but I spend probably five times the amount of time trying to do what takes me such a minimal time in a fire more advanced software application like Photoshop. Just my $0.02, again it's not for everybody.

I appreciate the insight! Thank you so much for using your platform to talk about it and spread awareness. We definitely don't use the full CC license, and we've gone back and forth regarding keeping it.

That Davinci Resolve one time license fee is amazing. Not to mention you can transfer the license to pretty much any machine and get free updates after its been paid for.

Bought it. Thanks for the heads up!

You are the BEST!! I had purchase Corel years & years ago (a couple times) and I even still had an account. But because of changing to a cd/dvd-less system, I haven't been able to access Corel without paying another Arm & Leg for it, which I refused to do. Now because of you, it's affordable! Thank You so much!!! You ROCK!!

As I learned the hard way, even after paying nearly $3K for my Adobe CC subscription over several years, if you stop your sub, you lose all your cloud files and cannot use any of the apps after that. You'd think, for all that money, we'd be able to run the last downloaded version of each app -- but wouldn't be able to update. Nope.

I feel like most people watching this will be amateurs, and do them i'd just say pirate away (safely), no company is going to come after you for learning to edit, uploading a few videos on youtube, or learning how to 3d model or sculpt. In the chance you become good enough to earn money, just buy the software then.

Whoa awesome bundles!

Thank you! Because of you I got corel painter for thirty bucks and change! Made my day.

thank you for this! please continue the wonderful work you are doing for the community!

Krita all day every day. Runs on Linux and Android 🤘

yessir Resolve is the way

Bro what is this Steam thing you mentioned something for games?

I'm still looking for a replacement of after effect ! The Fusion part of Da vinci resolve technically possible to do it but no tutorial or template worthy of the name

I use resolve and I still think it's the best bargain software, you can't put a price on a LIFETIME LICENSE these days. I quite like FireAlpaca just for my doodles. What stops me using smaller less known software is, lack of how to videos and guides. I know that's solely a me problem because I'm a big dummy but it's a thing.

I wonder, why not use Krita, pronounced 'kreetah' is great for painting and animation and free. It also has the ability to use separate vector layers. And with Python you can create your own plugins for actions that are not included but can make editing things a lot easier.

You only need as a digital artist sketchbook pro and clip studio paint...they are the best digital software art programs on the marketplace.

Thanks.

I own Affinity Photo, but I use Pixlr for 99.9% of my photo editing still.

Humble Choice is a phenomenal value. If you're into PC gaming, you could realistically just subscribe to that and never need to buy other games. Plus, you own the games unlike Xbox Game Pass.

Adobe has its issues but the cost is not one of them, and neither is the subscription model. For anyone using software like this professionally $50 a month is insignificant. Especially given the fact that it is a business expense for tax purposes. This shouldn't represent more than 20-40 minutes worth of work max out of 9600 minutes of work every month. And while using non-standard software is fine if you never collaborate with other people that isn't the case for most professionals. Having files where you don't need to worry about compatibility is a huge time-saving relative to the old times when file versions were all over the place, even if people were using the same software. I remember when there were a lot of people using things like PageMaker, QuarkXpress, and InDesign all at the same time and it was a complete pain. Not to mention it added a huge barrier to changing jobs if you learned one piece of software but a job opening preferred another. Getting cheap, non-standard software is fine if you are doing it as a hobby or only work alone but that simply isn't the case for the vast majority of professionals.

Instead of Photoshop I use Photopea which is basically the same thing in a browser, slightly different UI but other than that it's Photoshop and it's free... (That said I'd like the Photoshop UI since I got used to that in high school D: But I'd sooner pirate it than pay Adobe's ABSURD price...) My video editing software is pretty meh, I use Movie Studio Platinum 13, might switch over to something like DaVinci eventually... Also idk why anyone would use winrar over 7zip, like I like the name winrar but other than that who the fuck uses winrar? Like, maybe with this AI stuff things will change, but it's like using Bing or Internet Explorer in like 2020 as opposed to Chrome, maybe Firefox, or Microsoft Edge (which has some unique features like convenient text to speech PDF reading...) Like doesn't Winrar constantly hassle you to pay them and they have kinda a shitty UI? 7zip feels well integrated like it should probably come with your PC pre-installed tbh...

reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly expensive

If you get caught with pirated software, the software company does NOT get the copyright. Where did you get that from? You get fined, that's all, but that may still ruin you.

At this point with A.I. is not worth paying for Adobe cloud. You are now competing with A.I. programs coming every month, plus the A.i. enthusiastics who have never used A.I. for art but are more than welcome. Pay it once is the way.

What I hate about copyright laws in the US, they are not protecting the artists or creators; but the laws are really meant for corporations to have ownership of everything. I remember the fallout of Spotify and there were some artists who wanted their music to be pulled out from that platform, but they could not do that because their big record label bosses would not allowed them to do it. Once these artists signed the contract, the music that they created belongs to those big record labels. When Prince was alive, he feared that Warner Brothers or Time Warner wanted ownership of his music that he created. To make story short, Prince passed away and Time Warners own his music now. Look at Meta and Microsoft, they were sued for stealing software features from other developers, but sadly the US Goverment sided with Meta and Microsoft. Even I feel Adobe is guilty for stealing features too. But all in all, we are living in under the dictatorship of US capitalism. Capitalists make the laws that favor them, they run our politicians, they can buy other companies to kill competition and limit customers' choices, they can steal artworks from social media, rip off customers, etc. They can get away whatever they do without being held accountable.