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I like photoshop and haven't found a good replacement. when muscle memory is built up, it's really difficult to learn and switch to a different tool.

I have been searching for photoshop alternatives. but so far I haven't found any. For me photoshop is too expensive.

I have even considered to implement my own (I only need a portion of the photoshop features)

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

is what I found recently, it looks nice, but I can't get used to it.

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I went ahead and jumped on Affinity myself, for everything I used Photoshop for, it works more than adequately. I won't pay a subscription fee for software I only use occasionally, so Adobe lost me when they went to Creative Cloud.

I've used CS2 for many years, but the UI glitches with Windows 7/10 have gotten very annoying. I stumbled on Affinity a few weeks back and bought a $50 license after just a few hours of demoing it. It is very good. Much better IMHO than paint.NET and Gimp. There are a few features that I still really wish it would have, such as live export preview, to fine tune JPEG quality for web graphics.

Wow, Affinity looks pretty capable, I think worth trying out. Still, no real alternative for video editing...

On Mac quite a few people use Final Cut.

Davinci Resolve is also getting better over time. Some people say it's already good enough for them to use daily, I think it's too buggy.

Final Cut is like $300 - a price of a new GoPro. Btw, I think that GoPro could be a great company to compete in the video-editing market. They already have a wide audience, and they just have to make their Quick editor more feature rich, while keeping it simple enough for average user. They also have money and are in desperate need of settling on a software market...

You can get FCP10 for $15 on ebay(although the installation is a little sketchy). It is what I use on my non network connected Mac.

$300 and DRM free by the way

You can copy the application (or airdrop) to any other Mac and it will work without and activation process or anything like that.

If $300 is a lot of money for your video editing software then you aren't the target market for software like this anyway. People at my school only have FCPx or premiere because of student discounts or because the school paid for it.

They actually have their own video editing app, but I can’t say it could compete with FinalCut.

I use Blender's built in video editor. It's got some rough edges but you get a full creative suite with it including compositing and vfx. Particles, filters, camera tracking, animate the video positions for any swipes or transitions you want. Considering the price, free, it's unbelievable what you get with it.

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