I Replaced ALL my ADOBE APPS with these [free or cheaper] Alternatives!

okay so let's have a moment of silence for the last Adobe apps that I removed from my computer yesterday a moment of silence please okay that's more than enough because I also want to celebrate the fact that I found some awesome Alternatives let's open this thing there we go Adobe Adobe "Salut en tot nooit nemieje!" [Dutch dialect] I have to clean up first it was a fun idea but maybe not the best idea also it's like 9:00 in the morning right now so maybe I'll put this in the fridge for later yeah I mean okay

but where was I uh yeah so I started years ago with the full Adobe Creative Suite all apps because you know I studied photography I've worked as a photographer for as long as I can remember I've also worked as a graphic designer by the way and now I'm into videography and film making and making videos here on YouTube so I'm a content creator now so the Adobe Creative Suite is it's made for people like me but I found some better Alternatives free Alternatives onetime payment instead of subscription Alternatives so let me give you a list

of adobe Alternatives that I'm using every day now but first let me tell you why I wanted to get rid of adobe and all the Adobe apps look let me start by saying that I don't think Adobe apps are bad at all and I loved working in Photoshop illustrator Premiere Pro not so much because it didn't run on my computer back when I installed it the first time five years ago but that doesn't mean that it's a bad program you know what it is it's just that adobe is getting so huge and they suck you

in with that subscription which for small creators is quite expensive especially if creating is just a hobby and they also suck you into their ecosystem and then you're basically trapped and if then they start changing their terms of use and their terms of service and the conditions and everything and things like this when you try to cancel early cancellation fee really I mean I probably agree to it but still and then here you can't edit these files anymore that's what it says when you try to cancel but it's lies because I can still edit these

files perfectly fine in another program no problem or this it says here edit PDFs with a free online pdf editor well tough luck because it's only free if you're already paying for an adobe plan so I don't know it's all starting to feel a bit slimy if you know what I mean and I feel like we have to fight back a little bit and look I'm still giving money to big companies I work on a Mac Studio but yeah I can only take on one big company at a time right maybe with your help we

can do more but for now it's just Adobe but if you're happy with Adobe I also want to say this that's fine the apps are great keep using them what you're creating with those apps the results are a lot more important than the apps themselves right and the company but if you are looking for Alternatives here's a list of the ones that I'm using right now if you want to be Adobe free here it is I used Photoshop for photo editing obviously and also my thumbnails and there are a lot of Alternatives actually the first

one I tried was [ __ ] which is free and I like it but I feel like it's more for beginners or people who don't do a lot of photo editing or not not as as deep if you know what I mean if you don't need a lot of tools so it's great but limited but it's also free so you can just try it out and see if it works for you but then there are two other Alternatives that I also tried luminar Neo and Affinity photo I kind of like both but I feel like

luminar focuses more on AI and Affinity photo for what I use it feels more like an actual Photoshop replacement thumbnails no problem editing photos it all feels very familiar and I can still open my old raw files from almost 10 years ago no problem so switching from Photoshop to Affinity photo to me feels effortless and smooth now both of these options are onetime payment and then you get all the updates for free right well kind of actually because Affinity photo for example you get all the updates for free until there's a new version so first

there was Affinity photo one now now there's Affinity photo 2 since 2022 I think and if you want to upgrade from version 1 to two there's an upgrade fee but I think there was like 7 years between version 1 and two so that's a long time with free updates and also if you're still using version one you won't get locked out of it you can still keep using it and for luminar Neo it's similar it says here that big updates might also require an update fee and then one last thing about Affinity photo maybe it's

not really a replacement for Lightroom but I don't need a program that can handle large amounts of photos I almost never used Lightroom but if you do remember Affinity photo is not a replacement for Lightroom you're going to have to look at something like dark table I think it's called and it's free I think also something like that or other Lightroom Alternatives of course but there's another reason why I went for Affinity photo and that's because unlike luminar they also offer an illustrator and in design alternative and look I don't use them as much as

the photo editor but it's nice that for a onetime payments I get these three programs so for me as a content creator that's a great deal but if you don't need the graphic design side I mean luminar looks great too and you know what's also great audio the sponsor of this video and they also offer a onetime payment option if that's what you're looking for so if you need music or sound effects for your videos go check them out they make it super easy for you to find the perfect song filters playlists and even a

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times before is the foundation for your video okay back on topic now okay look if you want a free alternative for Premiere Pro the VIN resolve is the only option in my opinion they have a free version and the studio version for a one-time payment but the free version is packed with so many features it's actually ridiculous but the downside of course is that there's a learning curve you're actually going to have to learn how to use a professional editing tool unlike capcut for example which is a lot easier to use because its target audience

is not professional video editors capcut also has a free version and you know I really like it but I don't know they're slowly changing some things some features that used to be free are not free anymore the cloud storage you know it's not going to be free anymore even if you're paying for a pro subscription so I don't know it's changing and I don't like it starts to feel know slimy canva also looks good but it's also subscription based if you want the extra Pro features so I feel like the free version of The Venture

resolve is the only real free editor that gives you professional tools because what you get in the free version like I said it's ridiculous it's more than what you get in capcut Pro or canva pro video editing color grading everything I did everything in the free version for more than 2 years until I decided to buy studio and if you decide to buy denture resolve studio for that onetime payment unlimited updates in the future included well if you're a content creator that's going to be all you ever need I promise because it's not just video

editing in my opinion it also replaces Adobe Audition for audio editing and Adobe After Effects you know visual effects than Motion Graphics you actually get all of that in one program see down here this is for video editing then this tab is for color grading Fusion is for visual effects and Motion Graphics and fair light for audio now how everything really compares to those Adobe equivalents honestly I don't know because I haven't used them Adobe Audition no idea Adobe After Effects no idea I mean I'm sure that is great but if you're a content creator

like me and you you do a little bit of everything well everything in one program it's like a dream but I love resolve and no this video is absolutely not sponsored by Blackmagic design I just love the Avent resolve what are you going to do Sumi but yeah you know if you're working with or in a team with people who are using Adobe apps if you're the only one using the Denture resolve and you have to you know work on each other's Pro projects it's not going to work probably but that's also why I don't

want to say that V resolve is better than Adobe or adobe is better than the VCH resolve it's just for what I needed you know the V resolve is better I like it better but then one thing I'm still looking for is something to edit my PDFs edit and compress and that's actually it a tool to just do some basic edits and compress PDFs because that's what I was doing with the what is it Adobe Acrobat I don't need all the the you know the fancy tools just editing some compressing and it seems like there

are a lot of free options but I don't know which is the best one so if you can help me here let me know in the comments what's the best free tool to edit and compress PDFs that's all I want to know okay thank you so much for watching and see you in the next one