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BTW, Adobe is American. Reconsider those licenses for other options.
DaVinci Resolve for video editing would be perfect (and it’s free). Unfortunately Photoshop and Illustrator aren’t as easy to replace (though photopea is amazing as a free replacement for photoshop without AI garbage).
Davinci Resolve is owned by Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd a privately owned Australian company. Australia is still a liberal democracy and a long term friend of Canada. Incidentally Røde Microphones are also Australian.
Canva is Australian founded and bought the UK company that created the Affinity suite. While the Australian founders are major shareholders I imaging there is a hell of a lot if US equity behind them but at least they aren't Adobe.
I use a 100% free and open source software stack. It involves some sacrifice of features and interoperability that won't be acceptable to many people but things have come a long way and it's worth having a serious look before dismissing.
The US businesses mafia has deep hooks into enterprise, education and government markets and can't be budged. I hope Trump goes nuclear on this trade war nonsense because it might be the best hope yet to open up the software market to some real competition.
I still remember owning a Matrox video card and using Corel applications. Good old days.
Exactly! I own a full resolve license I picked up a few years ago as part of a charity auction. I do most of my stuff on Avid for work because that’s what is used but I’d be just as happy on DaVinci.
I didn’t know that Affinity was also Australian but that’s all kinds of awesome because gimp just doesn’t cut it and Affinity is pretty cool and no subscription garbage so they’re going to see more of my business in the future. I might pick up their suite just to support them even though I get all of the adobe garbage due to work.
Looking on the bright side of this as well for an opportunity for change.
Here are some alternatives that I use:
video -> Kdenlive
photo -> GIMP
The Affinity suite is a suitable replacement. It's not quite as advanced as the creative suite, but it serves 90% of most professional needs. I switched about five years ago and haven't looked back.