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Adobe & FREE Alternatives


Adobe Tutorials
Link to Adobe Tutorials

Alternatives
Canva

Adobe Photoshop
(Photo Editing)
www.gimp.org
Paint.net (Windows)
Pinta (Mac) 

Adobe Lightroom
(Photo Editing)

Raw Therapee
Darktable

Adobe Illustrator
(Vector Illustration)

InkScape
SVG-Edit

Adobe Premiere
(Video Editing)

OpenShot.org (Beginners)
Capcut
Blender.org (Beginners)
iMovie (Mac Only; Beginners)
Lightworks (Advanced)
Adobe Premiere (free 30-day download)

Adobe InDesign
(Page Layout)

Scribus 

Adobe Audition or Avid ProTools
(Audio Editing)

GarageBand (Apple)
Audacity (PC only, open source)

Adobe Tutorials
Link to Adobe Tutorials

Website & App Design

FREE App Design Software
Adobe XD

FREE Beginner Website Builders
Wix
Squarespace
Weebly

FREE Professional Website Builders
Word Press
(Most widely used)
See my “WordPress vs. Wix” PPT

Best Visual Builders to Use with WordPress
FREE Elementor Builder
(Free but basic)
Divi Themes and Builder
(paid, but most widely used by pros)
Divi Tutorial (thorough): FerdyKorp
(get percentage off Divi there)

Educational Web Building
Adobe Dreamweaver
Great for learning code and web, but not widely used professionally; too difficult for beginners and too simple and cumbersome for developers.

Advanced Platforms for Developers
www.drupal.org
www.joomla.org 

Domains & Hosting (Paid)
Godaddy (24/7 Phone Support)
Dreamhost (Cheap, Limited Support)
See my “Domains & Hosting” PPT

Social Media Content Creation


FREE Teleprompter
Teleprompter.online
FREE Graphics & Video Storytelling
Canva (best for SM graphics)
Adobe Spark
 (does all,
but best for video)

FREE Video Animators

Vyond (top pro animator)
Powtoon (pro but limited)
Animaker (great for social media)
Canva (Go pro for animation
or free for animatedgifs)
FlipaClip
(Google Playstore or Apple Store)
Juliet’s Review of Animator Software

FREE Photo Editing Software
Adobe Photoshop Camera
Raw Therapee
(high functionality, open source)

FREE Infographics Templates
Canva.com
Piktochart
Visme

FREE Stop-Motion Animation
Stop Motion Studio

FREE Color Scheme
Creation & Matching
Adobe Color

FREE Social Media Resources
Sprout: Social Media Image Sizes (always up-to-date)
Hashtag Generator
Google Key Word Planner Tool 

FREE Social Media Training
Social Media Training (Hubspot)
Google Analytics Academy
Hootsuite Academy