free software alternatives

spikerr:

minisplatling:

mythmonster:

minisplatling:

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 → Apache OpenOffice 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!

Note: I would suggest LibreOffice over OpenOffice, because LibreOffice is still being updated!

i didn’t even realize openoffice was discontinued… now I feel old!! I’ll edit the original post!

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These sound awesome!! Blender I’ve definitely heard of (used it a lot in my 3D animation days lol) thank you for letting me know!