smellslikebot:

i never stop talking about some of these so i might as well banish them to a single post! you might know about a lot of them already, but feel free to look anyway

• Adobe Animate (Flash) → OpenToonz, Synfig Studio, or Pencil2D 
  
• Adobe Audition → Audacity
  
• Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape 
  
• Adobe Photoshop → GNU Image Manipulation Program or Paint.NET
  
• Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects → Fusion, Shotcut, OpenShot, Natron, or Blender
  
• Autodesk Maya → Blender 
  
• Clip Studio Paint/Paint Tool SAI → Krita, FireAlpaca, (both also include animation tools!) or MediBang Paint
  
• FL Studio → LMMS
  
• Microsoft Office → LibreOffice or Calligra Suite 
  
• Scrivener → Celtx (sort of?) or Evernote
  
• VLC media player → VLC media player lol
  

freeware can be a great opportunity to get a feel for something and learn a new skill. and in some cases, the free versions are almost as powerful, so you might find that you saved a lot of money but made work that was just about equal to what you might have done with paid software!

socialistexan:

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one-time-i-dreamt:

Read more here:

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.

Vice

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

• Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
• Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
• Lightzone to replace Lightroom
• Inkscape to replace Illustratr
• Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

i made this draft when ikea monkey was still funny

i saved this on 12/12/12 when you could only post drafts

allthesweetness:

Zendaya Coleman photographed by Thomas Witeside for Marie Claire (September 2018 Issue)

citylights-forevernights:

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actionjacksonlovesbbq:

my dogs af

Guess who’s got a new ringtone

My dog actually freaked out when she heard this