--- title: Breaking Up With Adobe Has Never Been Easier! | daily.dev description: A roundup of recent free and open-source alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud products. DaVinci Resolve 21 now includes a photo editing module competing with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/breaking-up-with-adobe-has-never-been-easier--qftmmtkvw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Breaking Up With Adobe Has Never Been Easier! | daily.dev og:description: A roundup of recent free and open-source alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud products. DaVinci Resolve 21 now includes a photo editing module competing with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/breaking-up-with-adobe-has-never-been-easier--qftmmtkvw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qfTmmTkVw.png og:image:alt: Breaking Up With Adobe Has Never Been Easier! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Breaking Up With Adobe Has Never Been Easier! **[Gamefromscratch](https://daily.dev/sources/gamefromscratch)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A roundup of recent free and open-source alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud products. DaVinci Resolve 21 now includes a photo editing module competing with Lightroom. Adobe After Effects faces two new free competitors: Cavalry (acquired by Canva) and Autograph (acquired by Maxon). Affinity (also now owned by Canva) has merged its Designer, Photo, and Publisher apps into one free suite, covering Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign use cases. Emerging procedural tools like Pixie Editor and Graphite are also highlighted as up-and-coming alternatives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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