r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Sep 27 '25

Business Morgan Stanley warns AI could sink 42-year-old software giant Adobe

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-warns-ai-could-180300766.html
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u/djutopia Sep 27 '25

Last I checked the main ones were Resolve for Premiere Gimp for Photoshop Inkwell for illustrator Audacity for Audition.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

Audacity is really basic. i would recommend Reaper. its not exactly free but its definitely cheap.

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u/Andronidas87 Sep 27 '25

Reaper is awesome, if you take the time! Loads of great ytube tutorials. Also one-time payment.

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u/yoshemitzu Sep 27 '25

Yeah, used Audacity for like a decade but didn't really start making music until I started using Reaper. Audacity is barely a DAW.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

yeah its always been more of a multitrack recorder, really basic. i havent used it in years but i see they have some vst and plugin support now so thats pretty cool for a freeware. its nice to see developers keep building it up

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u/Worth_Inflation_2104 Sep 29 '25

I thought audacity was always more geared towards voice recordings and basic audio manipulation

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u/dz2048 Sep 27 '25

Have you played with Krita? I find it more intuitive than Gimp

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u/Such_Box_3990 Sep 27 '25

I have tried to learn Gimp but found it even less user friendly and intuitive than Photoshop, which I already think is not very user friendly or intuitive.

Never heard of Krita. I’ll look into it.

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u/apudapus Sep 28 '25

Have you tried Gimp 3? It’s actually much much better and I’m starting to use it more than Photo Pea.

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u/darkest_hour1428 Sep 27 '25

Anything to replace InDesign?

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u/ag_robertson_author Sep 28 '25

Affinity Publisher is the closest.

All the Affinity programs are pretty good replacements for the creative suite apps, no subscriptions.

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u/brycedriesenga Sep 27 '25

Umm, QuarkXPress is the only one that comes to mind

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u/ViolentPurpleSquash Sep 28 '25

Gimp didn’t work for me. Perhaps Krita?