Adobe commits suicide

[WilliamHere]

Here is the real truth

http://www.itassetmanagement.net/201...-relationship/


http://forums.adobe.com/message/5312380


http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2...impact-budgets

A must read!
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05...html#more-9251

[WilliamHere]

Here is the real truth
http://www.itassetmanagement.net/201...-relationship/


http://forums.adobe.com/message/5312380


http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2...impact-budgets

A must read


http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05...html#more-9251

[WilliamHere]

and remember the customers who subscribe are the ones adobe will listen to....

Really? Lets see what Adobe is going to do when their profits go doing from just listening to cloud subscribers only. That would be bad business and business suicide. If they are smart, they would listen to everyone. In my business all customers count and are important. That's what keeps me in business.
That being said, at this point, a lot of people are so fed up that they don't care what Adobe does. I personally know a lot of people and clients already in the process of making the move or are in the process of switching to non-Adobe software. This is a smart move. You never want to have one software company determine the success of your business or career. You always want to work with multiple tools.

A lot of people will be moving away from Adobe software and never looking back. Here is a good list that I found posted online:

For photo editing, manipulation, and composition:
Corel PaintShop Pro X5
Pixelmater
Corel Painter
Xara Designer Pro X
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer MX
Topaz standalone plug-ins
OnOne standalone plug-ins
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
PhotoLine
Snapheal
camerabag


For illustration:
Manga Studio 5 (better and faster than photoshop for coloring and illustration)
Corel Painter
Sketchbook Pro
ArtRage


VECTOR APPS:
Xara Designer Pro X (awesome!)
Serif DrawPlus X6 (awesome!)
Xara Xtreme
CorelDraw
Vector Magic
Artboard
IDraw
ZeusDraw
Inkscape
Intaglio
EazyDraw
Sketch


For video:
FinalCut Pro
Motion
Lightworks
iMovie
Avid Media Composer
VideoStudio Pro X6
Nuke
Wondershare Video Editor


For Audio:
Pro Tools
Sound Forge Pro
Audacity
ACID Pro


For print work:
Swift Publisher
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
QuarkXpress
Scribus
MultiAd Creator Pro
Xara Designer Pro X


For Web:
Expression Web
Espresso
Coda
Astana Studio
Wordpress
Tumult Hype ( instead of Adobe Edge Animate )
Notepad plus

For accessing and converting files:
XnView. (free) will read and write Photoshop .PSD files, also opens Adobe Illustrator .AI files.
ADOView. ($10) will read and display any InDesign or InCopy file, also reads Illustrator files.


For PDF:
PDF Studio Pro
Corel PDF Fusion
NitroPDFf
PDFsam Enhanced

Instead of Lightroom:
Aperture
Corel AfterShot Pro
DarkTable (free)

[iamtheblues]

A useful list of Adobe alternatives, with one I'd avoid in the vector tools section: Serif DrawPlus X6 - your description of it as "awesome" is a bit wide of the mark, as this program is full of bugs, and the last version (X5) was so bad, Serif gave up on patching the problems and issued X6 with a lot of the problems still present. Still, it is cheap and you get what you pay for.
Bob.

[handrawn]

Microsoft have stopped all development of Expression Web - but at least that means you can get the last version free....

[Know1]

Adobe isn't going to stop development any time soon. And Microsoft did not have a subscription only plan for Expression Web users. If they did the users would still be paying even though development stopped.

Edit: now that I have reread the previous comments I see that was a response to Serif DrawPlus being cheap and getting what you pay for.

[Know1]

You never want to have one software company determine the success of your business or career. You always want to work with multiple tools.

Very true.

Nice list. Where did you get it? Here is another list I see being compiled:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...63#post7585563

This is a HUGE opportunity for alternatives like Xara Designer Pro. Huge.
If anyone at Xara reads this, please encourage your management to go right after Adobe -- RIGHT NOW -

I agree. Do something like Corel is doing at the moment with their "Welcome, CS users!" There is no way I will get rid of XDP, but I just bought an upgrade version for 'CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6' from Amazon.co.uk.

www.corel.com/cs/
http://mc.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=register

[jonazen]

Very true.

Nice list. Where did you get it? Here is another list I see being compiled:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...63#post7585563



I agree. Do something like Corel is doing at the moment with their "Welcome, CS users!" There is no way I will get rid of XDP, but I just bought an upgrade version for 'CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6' from Amazon.co.uk.

www.corel.com/cs/
http://mc.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=register

Do you know if this upgrade version will work against a 2003 copy of CorelDraw 12? (that's what I've got installed at the moment)...

[WilliamHere]

Thanks to everyone for posting more apps and links here! Spread the word on social media. A lot of people need help with this.

Here is a more complete list:

For photo editing, manipulation, and composition (instead of Photoshop):
Corel PaintShop Pro X5
Pixelmater
Corel Painter
Xara Designer Pro
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer
Topaz standalone plug-ins
OnOne standalone plug-ins
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
PhotoPlus X6
PhotoLine
Snapheal
camerabag
InstantMask Pro
Gimp
Oloneo PhotoEngine


For illustration (instead of Photoshop):
Manga Studio 5 ( Faster & better than Photoshop for illustration and coloring! )
Corel Painter
Sketchbook Pro
ArtRage
Corel PaintShop Pro X5
MyPaint
Howler
Gimp
Open Canvas (free)


Instead of Lightroom:
Aperture
Corel AfterShot Pro
Capture One Pro
DarkTable (free)


VECTOR APPS (instead of Adobe Illustrator):
Xara Designer Pro (awesome!)
Xara Xtreme
CorelDraw
Serif DrawPlus X6
Vector Magic
Artboard
IDraw
ZeusDraw
Inkscape
Intaglio
EazyDraw
Sketch
Pixelmater (has vector tools as Vectormater)


For video:
FinalCut Pro
DaVinci Resolve
Motion
Lightworks
MAGIX Video Pro X5
iMovie
Avid Media Composer
VideoStudio Pro X6
Nuke
Wondershare Video Editor
Silhouette FX
Hitfilm


For Audio:
Pro Tools
Sound Forge Pro
Audacity
ACID Pro
MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2013


For print work ( instead of Adobe InDesign ):
Swift Publisher
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
QuarkXpress
Scribus
PagePlus X6
MultiAd Creator Pro
Xara Designer Pro X


For Web:
Expression Web
Espresso
Coda
Astana Studio
Xara Web Designer 9
WebPlus X6
Wordpress
Tumult Hype ( instead of Adobe Edge Animate )
Notepad plus


For accessing and converting files:
XnView. (free) will read and write Photoshop .PSD files, also opens Adobe Illustrator .AI files.
ADOView. ($10) will read and display any InDesign or InCopy file, also reads Illustrator files.


For PDF:
PDF Studio Pro
Corel PDF Fusion
NitroPDFf
PDFsam Enhanced

Instead of Flash:
AnimeStudio
ToonBoom Studio
Unity

[Know1]

Jonazen, no that unfortunately won't work. This is for people who have a license for one of the qualifying Adobe CS products. If you click on the 'Adobe product owned' dropdown menu you'll see what CS products qualify.
http://mc.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=register

You don't seem to be able to upgrade your version at all.
You need Graphics Suite X4 or X5, or CorelDRAW® Premium Suite X5 to be able to upgrade to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6.