Software should be something you pay for once.” I would rather pay $200 or even $300 for InDesign once - basically the equivalent of one year of the One App subscription plan - than $600 a year for a suite of programs I’ll never use. “They also force you into a year-long contract, which I learned the hard way when I tried to cancel my subscription after six months (since I only needed the Suite for six months) and Adobe told me I’d have to pay my remaining subscription balance in order to cancel early. Instead of After Effects, try Wax, Blender, or Fusion Instead of Animate/ Flash, try Opentoonz or Blender Instead of InDesign, try Canva or Scribus IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE “Instead, I’m taking a more proactive approach to my frustration. Instead, I’ve scoured the internet and rounded up free or cheap alternatives to every major Adobe CC product, many of which I personally use because I … hate Adobe so goddamn much.” IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN Adobe, to me, symbolizes everything I hate about both capitalism and Western civilization’s complete disregard of the arts and humanities as not just valuable, but necessary parts of life.”īut the writer said they don’t want to preach or complain. However, I have a particular case of the ass against Adobe. “I hate any company that tries to exploit the already poor-as-shit creator community, as I myself am a member of that group. I did it because I was furious about a spike in the price of the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, which is already stupidly expensive.” “I actually made a whole blog out of spite, just to make that one blog post. “I made a blog post purely out of spite,” they said. One Twitter user, Kaeden “ ghost malone” Stears, even put together an extensive list of free alternatives to all the major CC programs.

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