• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Blender is an alternative to 3DS Max in the same way an actual car is an alternative to flintstoning a burnt out wreck. Even in college a lot of our very basic rendering exercises with Max got the whole grade just on demonstrating correct setup because the software is so prone to crashing or taking 20h to do what most alternatives (paid or free) can do in 20 minutes.

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        Yeh, admittedly I have a lot more experience with blender than 3DS Max, but from performance differences alone I’m pretty sure if Max released today without its massive pre-existing industry adoption it would be laughed out of the room.

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      A better, free-er alternative to figma would be something like Penpot which works pretty well and is easy to self-host.

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      Davinci Resolve has a free version that is missing some features. They are important features, mind. But it definitely allows you to edit videos and get a good feel for the software to see if you want to purchase it or you can just keep using the free version even.

      So it’s free*.

      And the paid version is buy once and get a perpetual license. Very non-scummy for a full professional video editing tool.

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      I learned Photoshop in high school, then tried to use Gimp in college. What a fucking disaster of a program.

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      You can theme it to change icons and sizes and such, which helps a little. But I agree, the interface is a nightmare. Ever since v3 came out, my layers window has disappeared and I can’t find it. That’s a kind of important panel to hide away :(

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    Don’t forget about FreeCad!

    They had an update earlier this year that really closed the gap on a lot of features and tools they were missing compared to other more established cad packages.

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      Gimp 3 is actually a massive improvement and they are releasing updates on a routine basis now. Try Photogimp if you like a more standard interface and layout

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      Well… For quick text insertion, meme creation, or some very basic photo editing I still boot up Gimp.

      But yeah… The newest version of Gimp feels like they updated from a very out dated version to a mostly out dated version.

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      Yeah…GIMP is kinda shit. It’s probably the one app I’d pay Adobe for to not use GIMP.

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    I need a Lightroom alternative, on linux.
    Edit: Looks like rawtherapee is a good one. Funky name though…

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    As someone who loves linux and FOSS some of these are far from being replacements and some of these are even upgrades. It does depend on one’s usage though. Like I couldn’t tell a Photoshop power user that gimp is a full replacement. I could say though that blender is an upgrade from cinema 4D.

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    More people know Premier, but Natron is designed as a clone to the foundry’s Nuke.

    A better photoshop alternative is photopea. Gimp is it’s own mess.