A little help for artists

Hello everyone! In this site you will find links to

  • Alternatives to Adobe programs, which could be free, paid or with a trial

  • Poses references body, hands, feet, etc.

  • Resources free, legal, downloadable (hopefully, good resolution)

About

This site has been created and is continuously updated with the purpose of having a comprehensive, sole place to gather all the good tips found here and there on the web. Also, to facilitates researches by tags, theme, types, etc.

If you have suggestions, be it for sites, programs, tags, organization of the site or whatever, don't hesitate to send an e-mail!
Especially, I haven't tried each of the programs so the description tags are taken from the site description or some reviews (I'm not sure which features should be actually be pointed out, I'm really sorry for my ignorance...). Hence, if you know more about them, please help me expand their tags section so to also help all the people that will consult the list!

Many thanks to

Here is a list of all the links to the posts from where I found most of the adviced programs and/or sites. Their sharing is what actually gave the final push to the birth of this site and what keeps it updated! So, deserved visibility!

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Alternatives to Adobe Suite

Photoshop

  • Affinity Photo - photo editing, drawing&painting, support psd files | one-time purchase, trial

  • Clip Studio Paint - drawing&painting, comics, animation | one-time purchase, monthly subscription, trial

  • Paint Tool SAI - drawing&painting | one-time purchase, trial

  • Procreate - iOS only, Valkyrie graphics engine, up to 120fps | one-time purchase

  • MyPaint - drawing&painting | free

  • paint.NET - photo editor | free

  • Krita - drawing&painting, comic, support psd file, support python | free

  • GIMP - photo editing, drawing&painting, open-source | free

  • FireAlpaca - drawing&painting, comic, 3D perspective | free

  • MediBang Paint - drawing&painting, comic | free

  • Photopea - photo editing | free, online

Illustrator

  • Affinity Designer - 60pfs, live previews, manage big files, vector&raster, support adobe files | one-time purchase, trial

  • Clip Studio Paint - support psd files | one-time purchase, monthly subscription, trial

  • Inkscape - freehand drawing, calligraphy tool, open-source, support .ai, support .cdr | free

  • Vectr - link sharing, cloud host | free, online and desktop version

  • Figma - team projects online, embedded commenting, feedback, interactive designs | free version, annual subscription

InDesign

  • Canva - premade templates, free photos, online storage, team projects online | free desktop version, online version, monthly subscription, annual subscription, trial (pro version)

  • SpringPublisher - premade templates, up to 350dpi, supports Avery and Printworks micro perforated paper | free, one-time purchase

  • Affinity Publisher - support .idml, preview control, OpenType support, support adobe files, vector editing | one-time purchase, trial

  • VivaDesigner - high end DTP, support .idml | one-time purchase, online version, trial

  • Scribus -open source, XML files | free

Animator

  • Krita - frame-by-frame, raster animation, 2D | free

  • Pencil2D - raster, vector, open source, lightweight, 2D | free

  • FireAlpaca - frame-by-frame, onion skin, gif, 2D | free

  • OpenToonz - 2D, open source, GTS scan | free

  • Cacani - vector, auto inbetween, auto painting, adaptive stroke, Windows only | one-time purchase, annual subscription, montlhy subscription, trial

  • TVPaint - 2D,scan cleaner, import 3D references, animate on 3D sequences | one-time purchase, trial

  • Toon Boom Harmony - 2D, 3D integration, pipeline integration | one-time purchase, annual subscription, monthly subscription, trial

  • Clip Studio Paint EX - 3D conversion to 2D | one-time purchase, monthly subscription, trial

Lightroom

  • RawTherapee - opensource, High Dynamic Range DNG, two demosaicing algorithms | free

  • darktable - OpenCl, XMP sidecar files | free

Dreamweaver

  • WebStorm - javascript | annual subscription, monthly subscription, trial

  • Aptana - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, integrated debugger, open-source | free

  • Notepad++ - source code editor | free

  • Atom - code editor | free

  • CodePen - code editor, online | free

  • HTML5 Boilerplate - code editor, open source,apache settings | free

After Effects

  • DaVinci Resolve - multi user collaboration, facial recognition, GPU accelerator | free versione, one-time purchase

  • Blender - 3D creation, 2D animation, open-source | free

Audition

Poses References

Hands

Body

Various

Resources

Tutorials

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