I do have the original CS6 Master collection files that I installed from Adobe directly before it got clapped

…with one smol bit of :downloading-communism:

Blender has features to be an After Effects alternate - so could be good instead of Premiere as well but I haven’t really tried Photopea, GIMP instead of Photoshop

Pirate the industry standard software

All these open source alternatives are great, but you’re going to have a harder time finding tutorials etc simply due to a smaller userbase

I don’t know shit about video editing.

For image editing:

• Gimp is for editing or combining photographs. The stuff you find on subreddits birdswitharms, animalswithnoneck, and hybridanimals. You can paint in it, but it sucks.

• Krita is for painting. Use when you would use IRL paints, but don’t want a mess.

• Inkscape is for vector graphics. Things with crisp lines, cartoony things, clipart, that sort of stuff. It has a slightly longer learning curve than the others, but once you learn it, it is by far the easiest and fastest for this specific kind of work.

For the life of me I can’t find a good free, open source video editing software. I’ve tried a dozen of them, they all suck shit. Pirate something like CyberLink PowerDirector.

For a Photoshop alt it depends what you need it for but there are great free and open source options. For photo manipulation people recommend GIMP, but I find that program needlessly complicated and obtuse, photo manip isn’t something I need often so I can’t speak to it really. But if you want graphic design then I say Krita all the way. I love Krita, I love their community, I can’t recommend it enough for comics or digital drawing/painting.