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Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by pier25 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:09PM (#24231245)
Affinity Photo or Pixelmator Pro are great replacements for Photoshop. Resolve and Final Cut are much better than Premiere.

I'm still looking for a replacement for After Effects and Illustrator though.

I've heard Affinity Publisher is a great InDesign replacement although I've never used it.

Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by thdrdt on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:00AM (#24232997)
Depending on what you need Blender can be a replacement for After Effects. Blender can also replace Premiere so then you will have one workflow in the same program.

InspirationTuts has a nice comparison of Blender, After FX and Nuke which you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3jArcnGr3E

As a replacement for InDesign I used Scribus a lot. It has some unpolished edges but gets the job done. It includes industry standard PDF exports.

Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by dantondwa on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:05AM (#24232445)
I can recommend Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by pier25 on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:54AM (#24235396)
I bought it when it was released and still waiting to be able to work properly with groups.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by Shared404 on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:29AM (#24231980)
Inkscape is a decent replacement for Illustrator, at least in my experience.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by thdrdt on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:49AM (#24232952)
Inkscape is great but not if you are working a lot in CMYK.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by fretn on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:45AM (#24232060)
Yes indeed. But sadly not on macOS.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by dylan604 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:21PM (#24231321)
On what platform? Nuke is an amazing replacement for AE.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by pfranz on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:27AM (#24232245)
I really think they're very different applications. I think in nodes and much prefer Nuke, but AE being timeline based gives it very different strengths. Nuke also doesn't manage video and synced audio and is better optimized around frame sequences.

In school I'd often see people edit their projects in AE (because they were too lazy to learn Premere or another proper editor). It's not a great idea to use AE for editing, but its possible. If you tried to do that in Nuke you'd throw your computer out the window.

Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by scarfacedeb on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:33AM (#24233699)
Sketch and Figma are amazing for UI work in vector.
Re:Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Ado... by pier25 on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:56AM (#24235410)
Sketch is super bloated. Once you project grows perf starts to degrade quickly. Also working with groups is not great.