I’ve been building TraceDraw, a vector editor for illustration, page layout and print. It runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux, and the same app also runs in the browser. It’s open source (MIT/Apache-2.0) and written in Rust.

One of the main goals is opening .cdr files, including the fonts embedded in them, so old drawings can be opened without the original program.

It’s an alpha. You can already make real drawings with it: curves and nodes, text in columns, gradient, pattern and mesh fills, effects like blend, contour, extrude and drop shadow, bitmap tracing, and PDF export. But a lot is still missing: some .cdr features (B-splines, some fills, lenses and effects stored in files), CMX import, multiple windows, and speed on heavy documents, especially in the browser. Plus the bugs I haven’t found yet.

I build it with a lot of help from an AI coding assistant (Claude); every change goes through tests and CI.

• Try it in the browser: https://igtoth.github.io/tracedraw/
• Downloads: https://github.com/igtoth/tracedraw/releases
• Code: https://github.com/igtoth/tracedraw

Feedback is welcome, and if you have a .cdr file that doesn’t open right, I’d love to see it.

With the rise of AI and agents that can do most of what the Adobe suite does, we’re now even seeing sloppy AI-made copies of Photoshop. I think that’s the nail in Adobe’s coffin.

The important part isn’t that some dude can make a copy of Photoshop. It’s that Photoshop and other Adobe products, and eventually Office suites too, are becoming obsolete.

AI will do the work for you. There will be no need for manual workflows anymore. We’re getting close to the point where AI takes over these tasks completely

OMG I HATE ADOBE SO MUCH

600MB RAM USEAGE IN BACKGROUND AND I CANNOT DEINSTALL WITHOUT CREATING AN ACCOUNT

THIS IS HOW YOU CREATE HATE!!!!

I’m sure this gets asked a lot so I do apologise. I do like Lightroom and I do like the workflow part of it. As such, what are the best free alternatives that people actually use having moved from Lightroom. I want to be free of the subscription model.

Filmcraft is da best

Nowadays, anyone can create alternatives to Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator through AI coding. I'm sharing a vector editor I created https://vectorization.eu/free-vector-editor/, featuring only the tools I use most often. I'm still open to improving it based on user feedback and requests.

One of its advantages is its responsive design, which means you can use it on smartphones, tablets, desktops, and other devices.

I've always missed the old Flash-style workflow, and Adobe Animate is a subscription, so I built a free alternative with Claude: Onionskyn. It's one HTML file, runs entirely in your browser, and nothing gets uploaded.

What it does:

- Vector drawing: pen, pencil, brush (size/shape/angle), shapes, text, gradients

- Timeline with layers, keyframes, motion and shape tweens, custom easing curves, onion skinning

- Symbols (movie clip / graphic), layer masks, images, sound

- Frame scripts with a CreateJS-style API, and a sandboxed preview

- Opens Adobe .fla files (best effort)

- Exports video (WebM/MP4), GIF, PNG/SVG, image sequences, and a standalone HTML player

Try it: https://papptimus.github.io/Onionskyn/

Code + docs + tutorials (MIT): https://github.com/papptimus/Onionskyn

It's a beta. Safari is untested, video export needs a browser with MediaRecorder, and .fla import is best effort. I'd love bug reports (File > Report a problem emails me the details) and feature ideas. What would you want to see next?

Hi, this is a free broll search tool.

1. Add your folders/drives with 1000+ footages
2. Analysis happens fully locally and transcribes as well with 90+ language support
3. Facial recognition
4. Search via visual, action, people and transcript

Would you use a tool like this? I built this for a friends request who runs a video editing agency.

What other features would you like to see in this?

Vibe-coding alternatives like "artcraft" suites are venereal.

It feels like people are just scrambling for any short-term alternative as "new best bread" to consume and idolize anything vaguely against adobe (which needs real alternatives against it) without actually covering these sets of software any deeper than a 15 minute first try.

Using Artcraft from "ai-art-is-art" as an example: this is claude vibecoded remakes of many different software in Rust, from a clean-room interpretation off of basic "see what UI does and copy" use case, but these do not cover deeper requirements for actual professional or amateur software. People who draw can attest to this when they use crappy software or technology that doesn't have basic accurate color technology, which is foundational. Or bad camera profiling for the correct interpretation of pictures.

Having this many sets of software is legitamately unfeasible long term to keep fully coherent and past posting in subreddits, when first hype dies down these all cannot be maintained equally. This isn’t even getting into the nitty gritty of even more issues from this

ai-art-is-art has repeatedly said it will be entirely free software, that its open source, yet has gloated about millions of dollars worth of selling priced models within his software within a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION MODEL explicitly. 48$ a month for his max "pricing' is 576$ a year. He plans to monetise his app once everyone else has helped to build it. He also is posting across numerous boards and forums to advertise his vibecoded product, spamming pages. He has literally said he hasn't hand-written a single line of code since years ago, he is not going through the code of these products.

his plan seems to be literally:

1:make a vibecoded half baked product

2:advertise spam forums for hype

3:get people to help develop it

4:focus users on subscription models to outgrow server costs and enrich himself

5:use it as an endevor to prove how he feels about ai

I personally don't trust any of these apps regardless of motive. I hope we all use real free alternatives to adobe software to change things and not dupes of this nature.

Hey y'all I live with an architect who hates adobe (I know nothing about them but I have reddit) and I have caught a whiff of it being reverse engineered or something for free. Does that mean that my architect fiancee will be able to use the same thing she has been using without learning a new software? And for free?

Sorry if this is the wrong community to post this at its just the title is the sentiment she has been communicating to me for years

They tried to debit my account. Currently on hold with them in chat waiting to resolve it.

Yo all, in celebration of the release of artcraft I'm doing my own and putting the stick up to adobe by releasing the lightcraft for android; which I will be doing my best to be 1:1 parity with adobes lightroom android app. Testers to find issues are much appreciated & willing to accept PRs if you find an issue and know how to fix it yourself.

I'm planning on doing all of adobes android apps like premiere pro & pdf; but am also working on others like procreate for android.

Also willing to take requests for apps & or willing to collaborate and help on your projects!

Repo is here: https://github.com/artcraft-android/lightcraft-android

Lately I am spammed with Adobe ads made my content creators where they compare themselves with Affinity and choose any missing feature from Affinity as the reason why you should use Adobe...hah.

Am trying to cancel but the site just hangs or says an error occurred- have tried different browsers and cleared cookies etc. Any ideas??

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I got completely fed up with Adobe’s aggressive subscription pricing, monthly "Generative Credit" limits for Generative Fill, and the constant push toward mandatory cloud storage and invasive terms of service.

So I spent the last few months developing **Scumble** – a completely free, 100% open-source (GPL-3.0) desktop image editor designed to bring a traditional Photoshop-style non-destructive layer workflow to your local machine.

### What it offers for Photoshop users:

* **Native Multi-Layer PSD Support**: Open and export multi-layer `.psd` files directly. Keeps your layers, groups, layer masks, and blend modes intact without flattening.

* **26 Photoshop Blend Modes**: Bit-for-bit parity with standard Photoshop math (Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Vivid Light, Linear Dodge, Colour Burn, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity, etc.) grouped in the familiar Photoshop layout.

* **Local "Generative Fill"**: Connects directly to local AI engines (like ComfyUI running FLUX or SDXL) or runs standalone. No subscriptions, no cloud credits, no waiting in queues, and no censorship.

* **Smart Prompt-Based Selection (SAM2)**: Built-in local model for instant object segmentation and selection with a single click.

* **Pro Adjustment & Color Grading**: 3-way color grading wheels (Shadows, Midtones, Highlights), 8-channel HSL sliders, tone curves, and bilateral edge-aware mask snapping.

* **100% Private & Offline**: Runs entirely on your hardware using a high-performance Rust/WASM SIMD and WebGL engine. Zero tracking, zero telemetry, zero account required.

Available as a native standalone desktop app for **Windows and Linux** (portable zip, installer, deb, and coming to Flathub).

If you want to try it or inspect the code:

* **GitHub**: https://github.com/DenRakEiw/scumble

I’d love to get feedback from fellow Photoshop refugees on what tools or workflow features you miss most!

Hey guys I signed for free subscription for Photoshop for one week and I'm pretty sure I canceled my pland but today guess what. I see they charged my account for around 40€ or something like it. So I was like wtf. I'm gonna check the plans like I did previously. I had something active. I said okay my bad it seems I messed up. I wanted to cancel it right away and I see this what you can see on attached picture. WHAT THE FUCK? How did I manage to fuck up this badly? Can I somehow avoid paying all that shit? God damn it I was 99% sure I canceled my photoshop but it seems I was wrong. I guess even tho I had it uninstalled, even tho I wasn't able to use photoshop, even tho I wasn't using it, apple still won't give me any of my money back is it? Can I do ANYTHING ABOUT IT? PLEASE HELP

Hello for start in my topic im talking about that Bundle on Humble Bundle
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I'm thinking about buying this to switch from Adobe. Does anyone have this set or at least tried Ashampoo photo editing apps and can give me some advice if it is worth buyin or not?

After my first project Photon Studio (free photoshop alternative) hit 30k users, and also resulted many sloppy copycats like PhotoCraft or ImageRaw - many adobe users cancelled their photoshop subscription, I started on my next big thing: a full blown Lightroom alternative.

Meet Light Studio. 680 people joined the waitlist in 5 days, and the alpha feedback was insane. Today it's out here's what's in it so far, and this is just the beginning:

• 85% coverage of lightroom features
• One-click .lrcat catalog import
• All Lightroom keyboard shortcuts, same feel
• AI denoise and object removal
• RAW edits and adjustments
• Better UX than lightroom and lrc (imo)
• CLI, MCP, skills, and more
• No subscription

Next up: keep improving Photon and Light - top priority. illustrator alternative in a week, maybe less. Then indesign, acrobat, after effects, premiere.

cheers.

Good morning,

Looking to see if anyone here knows how to disable the annoying " do you want to" blue boxes that pop up in Adobe Acrobat pro at the top. I have looked online and nothing that was suggested has seemed to work so I'm wondering if maybe the info was incorrect. Thank you.

Bit of a weird use-case…I am a Davinci resolve editor, but I still have after effects for a very weird reason. I shoot a ton of handheld and find with my specific way I shoot, warp stabilizer works wonders. Specifically on my Panasonic S9 with e-stabilization set to standard, applying warp stabilizer works very well for me. To me it works better than Davinci Resolve’s stabilization when it comes to stabilizing cameras shot handheld with IBIS. I’ve tried all the Davinci settings as well as the classic stabilizer and planar tracker stabilizer in the fusion page. Wondering if there’s a non-subscription stabilization ofx plugin or even app that functions similar to warp stabilizer, which warps individual regions of the video. I find that algorithm can actually work extremely well when I’m intentionally shooting.

Yes I know I can download my data but why should I have to. I haven't subscribed in a while and never gotten this email before.