I haven't used the new version that's come out post their acquisition by Canva. But I really liked designer and photo for my workflows. I missed some of the tools that Illustrator had, but I guess in the grander scheme of things I'd rather come up with workarounds than pay adobe a monthly fee...

First I'm hearing of pixieditor. Thanks for the rec!

Between cycles, geometry nodes and support for Intel GPUs coming at the pace it did, Blender truly stands as a beacon for OSS and transparent sw dev…

Also true about the folks who realized that blender was at a crossroad- I’m so glad they acknowledged deficiencies and I’m so happy with how things have developed.

(Some former colleagues of mine who’ve worked in the industry longer, maintain this opinion 😂…)

To this point- I think Adobe were aware of their products being pirated and were totally fine with it; I think they saw it as future professionals getting entrenched into the sort of workflows that would exist only in adobe’s sw suite…

Preview on macOS thankfully lets you add signatures and enter information, but honestly stuff like that needs to be free and available on every platform considering how widespread PDF usage is…

This!

I hate that PDFs are ubiquitous these days but entering info/editing is a coin-toss. Especially sucks when some of these forms for visa/immigration processes require information to be entered, but the only thing to “reliably” do it, is to pay adobe for acrobat…

The gatekeeping from the pre-2.8 folks can be tiring, but I feel like those voices aren’t as loud especially with where the larger community is today!

I honestly doubt blender as a community and CGI as an accessible space would be where they are today, without the work that’s gone into improving the UI.

It honestly might be one of my favorite pieces of (open source) software.

I live for the day that GIMP goes through a Blender like transformation and becomes infinitely more usable than whatever is the case today 😂

What would be dope, is somebody stepping in to make a wired blu-ray/disc drive peripheral for this!

Except for that last level, I am really fond of this game's campaign! Really underrated background score as well!