For tablet painting: Krita and free
For photoshop: I use affinity, but Canvas just bought them. Not sure how they're going to be in the future. Canvas is evil. It's around $125/2 or 3 years or so. I haven't used Gimp in awhile, I might look at them again.
For Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects: Buy the studio version of Davinci Resolve, it has all of them. It's a lifetime purchase and cheap if you think of that way. Don't lose your code though.
For 3D: Blender and free. It keeps getting better and better.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Photopea is a great option for light photo editing! It's free website with a decent layout

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Real :3.. I use krita for my art ^^ GIMP for photo editing (which I don't do a lot of), kdenlive for video, and.. blender for 3d stuff

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love Procreate and Affinity Designer as Photoshop replacements! No subscription. I’m not sure what platforms they run on, though. I just use em on my iPad Pro (and Procreate Pocket on my phone)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Krita is our version of Procreate.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nice, I will check it out!

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love Affinity but didn’t know Canvas got ahold of them. Shoot.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not good news, but I mispoke, it's Canva:

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

They were the evil ones I was thinking of though.

[–] quarklover123@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

why is canva evil, exactly? i use it sometimes /honest question

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They're fast enshitifiers, they'll buy great products and make them subscription or way worse. An example of a way worse way is Unsplash, where they would offer free products and you could buy some of the photos. The ones you have to purchase used to be at the top or bottom, like PixaBay does. But now they're mixed in and random. I don't use it anymore. They ruin everything to the point where if I see they're involved, I don't use the product. I know it'll turn bad soon. I've bought from Pixabay occasionally. They might enshitify too, but so far they've been great.

[–] quarklover123@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

yeah, in that sense i don't trust them either. they may not be openly evil but it's a matter of time before this becomes more obvious. i feel this way about discord also (it annoys me sometimes but it's still usable, but i know this won't last long). let's hope people come up with a better alternative soon

i only found out about open source culture this year as i was looking into the fediverse (i don't know much about tech) and it has given me a lotta hope 🤗

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

The fediverse isn't perfect, but it's the best we've got. There are a ton of lists going around with replacemet software, most are free or have free versions.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, that's awful. Also because I know a few creative people have found it useful - it's shitty for them.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Still haven't found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I'm hankering to move on

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Affinity has one that's just as good, but as I said in another comment, I'm not sure how long that will last since they were bought by Canva.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm assuming you've already tried Scribus? scribus.net

If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what's broken :)

How well it'll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don't know the full extent of Indesign's abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that's obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.

If you're just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.