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die fast and take your stupid ai suggestions to the grave with you

Unfortunately the entire market looks like this. You have to normalize the graph against the S&P to see how they’re really doing.
- Unlike the last guy, I have not gained knowledge. What do these words mean?
  
  It means because of a orange guy and his tariffs the whole market is down. So we have to compare it with whole market. If it has fallen more than half of stocks, then we can say it just adobe's fault and not just market's fault. To get this idea we take the average of stocks which S&P500 which shows the average stock price for 500 biggest companies.
- Thank you - I have acquired new knowledge.

I wish you a beautiful downfall Abode
- I’d rather it be really ugly but I’ll take whatever gets us there.

Here is a list of foss Adobe related stuff:
Kdenlive
Gimp
Krita
Okular or SummatraPDF
- Is there one for aftereffects?
  
  Yes - pirated aftereffects.
- One posted by someone recently
  
  Blender 3D Artist here:
  If you already use Blender and want Inkscape-like functionality, grease pencil has gotten REALLY impressive! Worth checking out! But let's talk about materials real quick:
  I personally got burned when I dropped hard-earned cash on Substance and they sold out from under us.
  It might not be 1:1 for the most powerful features found in Alegorithmic's traitorware, but the PBR Painter add-on has been AWESOME for painting materials in Blender.
  There are some other add-ons for materials and advanced effects too.
  (For designing, I'm glad fo see Material Maker mentioned! It's impressive and legit! I hope that project goes far!)
  I honestly think a majority of that stuff is totally doable in Blender right now, add-ons just make it easier and/or a bit more efficient, and these devs are worth supporting.
  Armorpaint looked pretty cool, but is it still being developed? Seems like it's been awfully quiet, which is a shame because it seemed very promising!
  It's sad because Substance was the ONE time I relented and said "Hey, maybe this commercial software will be really worth it." Fool me once.
  
  I have never seen that penguin logo in my life.
  
  Where Fl :(
  
  I think it is better to focus on foss when you can. This is more of a list of alternative companies to Adobe.
  Cool graphic though
  
  Some poor pickings for acrobat there. Why no okular?
- I use Shotcut for video editing. Haven't seen that mentioned here yet.
- Kdenlive
  Blender has a really good video editor built in.
  
  Blender can do video editing but I wouldn't recommend using Blender unless you are already using other Blender features.
  Kdenlive is a proper video editor and is actually designed for purely video editing. Just because you can do it with Blender doesn't mean you should.
  
  Excel probably does too.
  
  Blender is just the most amazing peace of software I know and I actually enjoy using it. Unless I try to do retopology again. Screw that all the way to hell!
  
  Kdenlive is surprisingly good from my limited experience with it. But blender can do basically everything so that's also an option.
  
  By chance, any idea how either of them compare to Final Cut Pro for basic video cleanup?
  I use FCP for cleaning up instructional YT videos (cutting out flubs and flowing back together) but have been looking for a viable Linux alternative.
- I post this on every realted thread:
  https://www.photopea.com/
  Web-based Photoshop.
  
  Not foss but still an alternative
  
  Was going to say this. Unlike Gimp, Photopea's UI is extremely similar to Photoshop so it's much more intuitive to use if you come from that background.
- The (attempted) Figma acquisition announcement promptly led to emerge FOSS alternative of collaborative prototyping tool too.
  Penpot
  Also I want to mention Graphite.rs for graphic design. It aims for vector/raster image with procedural customization capability and in early development. Last I checked they don't do much outreach and having feedback helps too.
  
  Anything using peer2panda?
  I know the gnome project was making a p2p collaborative editor at one point.
- Gimp really shouldn’t be on anyone’s “alternate to” lists.
  It’s so bad.
  Affinity, on the hand… it’s pretty great. For now, at least.

Adobe's name is mud right now.

Yeah fucking tank adobe you piece of shit

My guess is that Canva and Figma are 90% of the reason why people are no longer confident in Adobe as a company.
- Figma-balls xD gottem
  (I have no idea what these are plz explain)
  
  Figma is a vector drawing app that was originally for UX design (an Adobe XD competitor), but they just added a bunch of graphic design tools that compete with Adobe Illustrator.
  Canva does a lot of raster and vector image editing that originally targeted people that were not design pros, but they’ve been adding a lot of features that allow people to make some professional quality stuff stuff with ease.
  All in all, both companies are growing into the spaces Adobe dominated. If you were a UX designer who needed to occasionally use Illustrator for a more detailed illustration, maybe you no longer need that Adobe CS license.
  
  Figma is a prototyping app to make semi interactive demos of user interfaces.
- Canva and Figma are 90% of the reason
  How long before Adobe buys them... they did it macromedia and all their other competitors. Anti-trust laws, if they were working, would have shut down Abobe decades ago.
  
  They tried to buy Figma and failed due to anti monopoly legislation
  
  They tried to buy Figma, but getting past the regulators was too hard. It was clearly a play to monopolize UX design just like the did with graphic design.
- Idk, i work at a print shop and half of my work day is spent fixing dog shit files people send me from Canva. It's the scourge of pretty much every printer out there.
  
  I worked in print before Canva. They were going to send you shit files with or without that tool. Most tried to send word docs or power points so Canva is probably a step up.
  
  Just because people have the tools to do graphic design, does not make them good at graphic design.
  
  That used to be my trade. What's wrong with Canva files?
- But there are just so many good reasons!

Still too high!

Why did Adobe start tanking after the start of the year?
- Proposed 39% tariff on each adobe plugin that’s imported.
  
  Ahahah oh my god, they're lucky they're industry standard...
- .... Didn't everything?
  
  They are down significantly harder than the S&P 500, despite logically being in a market that shouldn't be as vulnerable to things like tariffs.

Am I missing something? What does Blender have that overlaps with an Adobe product?
- I think it did back when Adobe was actually relevant in animation
  Now days all the big studios have there own custom stuff and the community uses Blender
- What does Blender have that overlaps with an Adobe product
  I ditched premiere for the Video editor in Bender, and you can use Blender in a lot of ways just like After Effects, if you really know it, then its a lot more powerful than AE.

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