: Adobe Creative Suite alternative My question: Is there an alternative to Adobe Creative Suite for designers/enthusiast? The programs that I am mainly interested in is Adobe's Photoshop, Adobe's

@Sims5801359

The only thing that sticks out to me other then the Corel which you mentioned, and is really not much of a competitor, is Autodesk.

Autodesk has made some serious strides in the last few years. Starting with porting AutoCAD to Apple OSX. Now they have a full suite of very, very innovative technology including ownership of AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, and Maya. In the Photography space one of the leading apps for smartphones, Pixlr is AutoDesk. In the growing 3D printing space it too is dominated by AutoDesk's extensive suite of software in their 123D line. They've also got their Sketchbook suite for smart phones and tablets which is a leading illustration package.

They've also been making lots of moves in the video game design and engine realm. Particularly, Scaleform, is used on some very popular games. In today's news alone Autodesk acquires Bitsquid, another video game engine.

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@Hamaas979

Here is a quick list that I put together of programs and their alternatives.

Photoshop - Gimp

Illustrator - Inkscape

Premiere Pro - Final Cut Pro

After Effects - Apple Motion

Dreamweaver - Coda 2

Unfortunately there isn't an alternative to Flash since its Adobe's proprietary code/software. There are programs that will export swfs, but that doesn't mean that it is a full alternative solution. The good thing is that Flash is dying and can be replaced with HTML/CSS/JS.

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@Holmes874

Here's what I use. There are many other options as well. Note that I run these on OSX for the most part.

Adobe's Photoshop -> Pixelmator

Pixelmator is the closest I've gotten to the full 'Photoshop' set of tools. It's still lacking in areas, though. It can open PSD files but note that it can't fully understand the new features in later versions (such as smart objects).

Adobe's Illustrator -> Inkscape

I've always preferred Freehand over Illustrator and, to me, Inkscape is much closer to Freehand. It's my main design tool these days.

Adobe's Flash (for animation) -> Flash is dead. :)

Adobe's Premiere Pro (edit video) -> iMovie. It's fine for an 'enthusiast'.

Adobe's After Effects (VFX/motion graphics) -> I don't have an alternative for that.

Adobe's Dreamweaver (code HTML/CSS) -> Sublime Text

DW was never a great product. I much prefer a good text editor. I use Sublime Text these days for my markup.

Big disclaimer: The big challenge with finding replacements--especially open source ones, is that so few are focused on print design. If your design work is primarily print based where you're dealing with Pantones and printers and the like, you probably just have to bite the bullet and accept that paying Adobe's protection racker--er, I mean 'licensing fees'--is part of 'doing business' in this industry.

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@Nimeshi706

If you buy CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 you will get:


Corel Draw X6 (Alternative for illustrator)
Corel Photo-Paint X6 (Alternative for Photoshop)
Corel PowerTrace X6 (Tracing utility)
Corel Connect
Corel Capture X6 ( a screen capture utility )
Corel Website Creator X6 ( Code-free website creation, so no alternative for dreamweaver)


More info : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorelDRAW
I like Coreldraw a lot and photo paint works very well with coreldraw.
The other utilities are not that good in my opinion.

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@Goswami567

Here is a list of ABOBE PRODUCT simply click the desire product and select from the list below.

They have free, open-source, and commercial for linux windows Mac BSD iphone the site has alternatives for many commercial softwares that will cost you nothing more that an afternoon of learning their product.

Most do not provide collections, but they usually emulate adobe collection by using the same file formats. Leaving the learning curve of a new software as your only obstacle... Most likely you will have individual different company providers for each software package but they will work the as an alternative to your master suite experience.

Illustrator
Photoshop
Flash
Dreamweaver
After Effects
Premiere Pro

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