Alternative to adobe products
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Is there an alternative to adobe products? I love adobe products and can’t fit them into my annual budget.
I especially LOVE adobe indesign. I don’t need photoshop that much but would be nice to have This is all for personal use (invitations, announcements) volunteer orgs I work with (again invitations, but also flyers, posters, forms, teaching tools, etc) I’m very good with indesign due to two college classes in which I formatted books, and then using it professionally for 4 years (I wasn’t a designer formally, but edited documents within indesign). I love features that I just can’t get in Word . |
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Perhaps not as friendly as professional products, there is inkscape and gimp.
Understand that I run these under Linux and comment on what the windows versions are like. I am only a light inkscape user: gradients fills and text along a path is about as fancy as I get. I mostly use inkscape to edit vector maps. |
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I use Pixlr which is very similar to older versions of Photoshop.
Canva is also easy to use and inexpensive (some parts are free, some are paid). |
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Thanks for your info. I’ll check out those handful of options.
Any that especially do well at text formatting? Movable guidelines or images/boxes that snap to the guideline? |
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Inkwcape will snap to guidelines. You drag in guidelines from the edges. |
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| Also a Linux user and am happy with gimp, inkscape and scribus. They should all run on Windows and Mac also. Acrobat is still the best for digitally signing things. |
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I too love illustrator and indesign. I use publisher which sucks in comparison.
I bought photoshop elements for like $70 and it’s been great. It’s a cd so it’s permanent and no subscription. |