#xdanielart

[mercuriobebop]

To all my fellow Adobe dislikers: XdanielArt (twitter / mastodon) has made an update in his alternative-to chart. Share to spread knowledge of the options we have.

[juneboba]

xdanielart (the creator) updated this due to adobe's recent clownfuckery

alternatives to adobe suite.

[muffin-snakes-art]

Hey I love ur art I wanna know which program u use for ur art cuz I wanna draw a lot better then on paper ?

Hiya tysm!! I currently use a number of programs depending on what method I wanna work with or what I wanna make. I'll list and explain the ones I use or used for my illustration work.

Clip Studio Paint EX - Main choice for illustration and hand-drawn animation. I enjoy painting and sketching in Clip Studio more than Photoshop personally. The animation feature is pretty neat and I like using it mainly for the clean up process.

Adobe Photoshop - Illustration and hand-drawn animation. There are a few features Photoshop has that Clip Studio doesn't have that I personally need to make exporting multiple images faster and ready for animating. It can also make importing stuff from it faster and easier into After Effects.

Adobe Illustrator - Vector Illustration and 2D rig asset creation. If I wanna make quick clean art or I know I'll need multiple sizes of the same art, I use Illustrator. Creating vector art is a bit of a learning curve for beginner digital artists, so I wouldn't jump into it until you have an understanding on non-vector art programs.

Procreate - I don't turn on my iPad as much anymore, but it's an amazing and affordable art app. If you can afford an iPad and an Apple Pencil, definitely give it a try.

Gimp - I used to use Gimp back in high school since I had no way of purchasing any art program at the time, but I wanted something similar to Photoshop after learning how to use it in school. It's a decent free and open-source art program that served it's purpose for me.

MS Paint - Literally started out digital art and animation with Windows 7 MS Paint and a wireless mouse back when I was around 10yo. But the upcoming latest MS Paint update includes layer and transparency support for the Windows 11 version. Honestly I'd give that a try if you use a PC and have 11 on it!

Hope this helps! Also here's a graphic made by XdanielArt on Twitter listing a bunch of program alternatives to the Adobe ones. There's a good number of neat art programs to research and try out!

[implodingggg]

Adobe alternatives compiled by @XdanielArt on X. (Image credit: @XdanielArt via X)

[magiccazza]

My agenda to say Fuck you to Adobe.

Credit to @Xdanielart on Twitter

[kylieneko]

Caveat: The perpetual license, while it does exist, receives no updates.

There is a subscription they really want you to buy instead. Or an update pass, where you can pay monthly for the updates, and lose them all; rolling back to the version you paid for the perpetual license for.

Also I'm'a just insert this Alternatives to Adobe image yoinked from XdanielArt on Ex-Twitter. It might not be missing a couple items and a couple things are listed as FOSS when they're free-with-ads-and-closed-source. But there's a whole non-Adobe world out there.

PSPSPSPSPSPSPS CLIP STUDIO IS ON SALE RELEASE YOUR ADOBE SHACKLES AND JOIN THE FREE MASSES OF THE RESISTANCE

[rudeboimonster]

that list is old! the one i'm about to post is newer - from 2021 instead of 2019. source: https://twitter.com/XdanielArt/status/1434611199140896772

In other news, it is now not only morally acceptable but the morally correct thing to do to pirate the fuck out of Adobe’s software line.