I’ve been trying free design software as potential alternatives to Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign. I expect many are already familiar with the FOSS options, but I thought I’d share in a thread anyway.
Any opinions are personal & YMMV. For online resources, anything with a barrage of adverts & tracking on UBlock Origin, Ghostery and Privacy Badger I steered away from.
This is very much geared to being options for people coming from an Adobe background.
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#Design #Software #Adobe
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