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Get the bag king !
nice camera
Sorry, what was that?
hehe~
You forgot Krita! =(
Paint - R - Rotate Photoshop - R - Rotate Illustrator - R - Rotate Canvas - R - Rotate Pixlr - R - Rotate Interlude - R - Rotate CorelDRAW - R - Rotate Inkscape - R - Rotate Blender - R - Rotate Figma - R - Rotate Affinity - R - Rotate Loads of more softwares - R - Rotate GIMP - R - Rectangle
lol
Other editor programs: R is for rotating! GIMP: NO DUMMY ITS FOR *_RECTANGLE_*
in mac for some reason inkscape also does rectangle
i laughed i cried i threw up i screamed i got shot i danced i fell asleep i woke up i ascended. thank you so much for this video
lets gooooooooooooooo
This comment is the world’s greatest sin and my own greatest blessing
I’m the one who shot you
*slay*
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As an Inkscape user and advocate I cannot describe how great it is to see it getting love in this video. I've been using it for over 12 years now. It's gone through some major improvements lately but even then had great potential. Highly recommend it.
Im really glad to see this cause i used it years back and hated it. Gonna give it another try
I downloaded a month or two ago but forgot about it. I guess I'll finally play around with it
No you were absolutely right about Inkscape. It’s pretty stable and full featured, and it is indeed free. Not just free but open source too. It is not just a free version or trial that you were using, the entirety of the program is all free, and always will be.
I do actually know people who use Excel for design! Specifically knitters, quilters and the like. The cells are great for organizing fabric patterns by filling them in with blocks of color
Yes! I use it all the time to graph out patterns for knit/crochet and cross stitch.
I used it before I found better things
Oh this is such a good idea how have I never thought of this (I knit & love spreadsheets)
Ooooh, smart!
@@rivercape982 drop the better things?!
The crazy thing is a bunch of people are "modding" ms paint and coming out with free plugins that add things like layers. Might be worth exploring in a video.
I would sooo watch that
oooooooooo!
MsPaint has a large community of artists still using it! ...unfortunutely most mods for it are for the 7+ version of mspaint meanwhile I primarely use Mspaint Vista
layers would be very interesting for image editing where do i find it
@@SamiTheAnxiousBean you what????
When Elliot said "PiktoChart" I thought he said "Pictochat" and I legit didn't put it past him to make the graphic on a web-emulated Nintendo DS
I feel like Clip Studio Paint could technically also count as a design program. That has raster and vector stuff. And fun photoshop features. It's also an art program that a lot of artists use.
yeah i was waiting for clip studio!!
Clip studio Gang checking in!
same with krita!
Clip Studio is just Photoshop but better
I was looking for this comment! Clip Studio Paint is goated even if I haven't used it in 3 years and use photoshop every day
Lewis’s design is absolutely amazing
wow
its Gawx!!!
i am flattered! (i am lewis)
We are louis theroux
@@welliot we are all Lewis
I don't even do graphic design, I just think your videos are creatively inspiring in general, it's easy to forget to just muck around with different stuff for fun
shoutout to all the designer brains of the world who don't actually design 😤😤
samee
@@welliotlove ♡♡♡
You watch him as well?
yep i love this video seeing elliot explore a lot of different graphic design programs and showcasing what they have to offer
" I did the same design! " - he literally doing different every time
You look like Peso Pluma
True, but he Australian. So he doesn't exist :((
A facinating comparison. Thanks for doing a dive on each program and also your kind words. - Inkscape developer (p.s. it's free because other people either volunteered their time or already paid for it to be made, and once made, it's available to everyone. I'm a Patreon funded dev these days)
thank you inkscape legend
Thank you for your service
Bro you're amazing
Just an absolute legend dropping by, inspiring us all, no big deal I feel like I just met a celebrity
You are a fucking legend! Inkscape alone makes stuff like Linux viable for a graphic design workload
a little sad Krita wasn't included in this. I've been using it for about 4 years now and each new update through the years has only been improving the experience. It's also also open source which adds a lot of points in my book.
open source pog
I use krita for drawing 🤗
@@rainbowrotcod krita has some very good UX in my experience, though I'm not an artist (I'm a software dev), so take my opinion with a grain of salt and I've used it with a drawing tablet before, and I quite like its functionality. (also, I use opentabletdriver for the tablet driver, as it's open source & very customizeable)
I was shocked to not see it, it's pretty high up on the list of free design software
Same :(
Note to myself: Blender is still just mindblowing And Inkscape and Figma are appearantly a need
Now Figma also has its open source alternative called penpot
I'm a design student currently and my professors consider Figma to be the industry standard for web-based design!
@@hilarybareiss4646 I guess that's why Adobe wants to buy it: maintain their monopoly and take it from free to subscription-based. Like Broadcom has just done with the buy-once and free versions of VMware licenses. *Poof * gone now.
Oh my God the kid pix brought back so many memories! I used to spend hours on that program and then graduated to Gimp when I got older, because that's the software my friend showed me. I still use Gimp to make raster projects, and got inkscape for vector. Gimp is not very beginner friendly, but once you get used to it, it's a dream. Especially with it being open source, it means you can download, and make, plug-ins and it becomes almost as useful as base photoshop
I am glad at least one other person agree that GIMP is not user-friendly. It is so counter-intuitive, I don't understand why they haven't changed it. And this is not even from a Photoshop-first perspective. I started with GIMP. Once I found Krita, I couldn't help but actually feel that GIMP was just trash and garbage lol. (sorry if this hurt anyone's feelings).
Omg same. Seeing Kid pix brought back memories I did not know I had lol
As a music student I'm expected to make posters and program booklets for my concerts all the time. Canva is an absolute godsent.
The new Adobe Express Beta is awesome too.
WAIT NO I'M LITERALLY THE SAME LMAO
WE ARE THREE NOW
Why are you expected to do that lol
@@GiJoe94 I guess to prepare us for the real world :c
16:57 My world has been shattered by the revelation that there are two of you. It's almost eerie how much you look AND sound alike.
I creamed without the s
wait what
same like that was so crazy
mind was blown lol.
same honestly
Dude, everything in your video is so well done, that's crazy! From the cuts at the end of your sentences, to the format when you film yourself, to the color grading... Incredible man
Inkscape really is almost flawless, it's amazing and is always evolving
So happy to see inkscape here! I learned Illustrator in highschool but I couldn't be bothered to go through the processing of "legally purchasing and obtaining the illustrator license" so I looked into free alternatives and inkscape was the one I chose. It does everything I could possibly need for my game dev purposes, and its an all around fantastic program!
Yah and if only it had CMYK implied, it would kill Illustrator.
@@gazizabdulmenov5574 Working on it... you can make cmyk svg files, but for most people that's pretty pointless. The problem is /exporting/ to cmyk pdf files. Though at least with 1.3 you can /import/ cmyk pdf files now.
@@doctormo You rock Martin 😘Did I ever mention, how much I hate Illustrator and having to use it? 😛
I pirated all my Adobe programs for school. Surprisingly easy.
@@tourmaline9647 oo, how do i do it? i dont wanna risk any viruses!
As a GIMP user, the way you described trying to use GIMP is esactly how I felt when my college forced me to use Photoshop. Also, good video.
Don't be silly, GIMP users don't exist
@@actuallydavidei am entirely convinced my dad is the only GIMP user in the world
So this twin, is he technically competent? Your backstop. -- your mic needs a clean. Try sticky tape or suit brush. Looks like smegma or dandruff.
This. Photoshop was hell to use for Uni.
The shortkeys in gimp are so fcking stupid bro, i hate this program
man i love your style of editing. i also think your script was very well curated, your jokes landed well and I enjoyed the video thoroughly. First video of yours I am seeing and I absolutely loved it!
Same.
Im a game dev hobbyist and I was always worried about vector art for icons, but I looked into it and got inkscape and its so easy to pick up. And utterly perfect for any sort of UI you want. I made a health bar and some status effect icons (fire and poison) and im so happy with them. Saved me so much time.
The lenghts people will go with power point are amazing. I have a friend that does this crazy presentations for uni assignments where he literally animates in vector art made with the basic shapes, and it is good, like professors saying "this is the best presentation I have ever seen good"
People have been programming operating systems in Powerpoint for years.
@@NterpriseCEO pptos reference 😱😱😱😱
@@NterpriseCEO Yeah, the community's quite cool, I have been making a very advance one, and that has an AI assistant built into it as well.
i love powerpoint so much, it has so many features and possibilities once you start exploring it properly
You are so brave for this, I get a panic attack as soon as I open a new program
this vid took 2 months to make cos i could only film one program at a time... learning a new program is TOUGH
I used Photoshop all throughout high school, and I have to say that the best alternative I've used is Photopea. The slowness is only really a problem once you start getting into higher and higher resolution sizes or when you start using dozens and dozens of layers and unapplied effects. That or you have a low end computer. (Also combining Blender, Photopea, and Krita/IbisPaint X is just the best)
I am a graphic designer and I use the Affinity suite because paying monthly for Adobe is insane, and I absolutely love affinity ❤
I wonder how many people noticed the little detail that every program's logo was in the colour of the bucket where it belonged Nice video!
YES first person who noticed!!!
wait wdym
can someone explain?
@@sogumioNeither do I understand
4:20 :)
Thanks for the shout-out Elliot - great video as usual 👌. Glad we can help you stay hydrated with those Iced Lattes for a bit longer too 😎.
affinity! in my comments!! this is cool isnt it :)
Omg! This video is great, and i feel weirdly validated. So i am just learning Graphic design and following a lot of “adobe” tutorials on Affinity, and it works great. I don’t feel justified spending Adobe money when I am just learning! Also, the best part of Affinity Publisher is that you can use the features of all 3 apps in 1 software! Like Vector, Raster and Grids, its truly great, love the personas.
Amazed and delighted you like Inkscape so much! I’ve been happy to struggle through its rough spots for the past 20 years or something and ohhhh man you neeed to try the new version that just came out. Layers got awesome. Performance BOOSTED with GPU. It went from “yay i like this” to Super Duper Professional Power House
Can I just say the color on your talk-to-camera footage is amazing? That plus your designs feel straight out of a poster advertising Helvetica in the 60s and I love it.
I love it as well, it gave me old Reader's Digest vibes,
I was at a careers conference once and adobe did a show, at the end they proposed a challenge for who could make the best poster in adobe apps, he specifically said “it has to be adobe, don’t go using canva or something” so naturally, I used canva, made a better poster than everyone, changed the metadata so he couldn’t tell and won the lil competition..
did you get a prize?
And everybody clapped
@@ella-and-her-cup-of-coffee Yeah, everyone clapped, right?
W
Cap but it's still a funny story
bro really did a crime skipping KRITA 😂
Microsoft Excel can be surprisingly powerful for page layout and design. In a previous job I was the "Excel wizard" of the office. The company hired a design studio for a rebrand, and I got given the task of updating all of the Excel templates we had to implement the new branding. Trying to use Excel to create complex, dynamic page layouts felt more like trying to summon a graphics demon with a medieval grimoire, but the results ended up looking really good. Inkscape is a great vector editor. Free, open source, cross platform, and very flexible. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a featureful design and illustration tool.
Elliot. Fucking. Killed it. KILLED IT. Loved this concept and the script & editing genuinely made me laugh so many times while watching. GG boss.
THANK YOU MIRNDER 🫡🫡🫡
Legit I died from the humor. Epic video.
another excellent video Lewis!! so nice of you to invite your brother Elliot to make a poster he did a wonderful job 👍
thank you! - Lewis
i saw this comment before watching the video and thought it was a bit. the jumpscare of this comment miraculously coming to life was terrifying. also hi lewis
I just discovered your channel via the dune designs video and this feels like old school KZhead, a warm hug. Subscribed. 🫂
So happy to see someone's appreciation for inkscape! It's actually also open source just like gimp, and so is blender :) Also delighted to see you approve of PowerPoint, that was my first graphic design software and I enjoyed it tremendously as a kid 😌 amazing for goofy animations of dragons I used to love making by duplicating and then modifying slides, and infographics I needed to make for school project
As someone who uses Gimp, it's very powerful, just not for a lot of graphic design applications. It's more tuned for photo editing and image manipulation, and so I usually supplement it with Inkscape for those weak spots.
Remember reading online somewhere that "Gimp is just as powerful as Photoshop, you just need to navigate an extra 4 menus to get it to do anything you want" and while clearly hyperbole, I think it describes the workflow pretty well That being said, as a Linux-loving CS major that was only a course or two away from a GD minor, I love Gimp to death and couldn't imagine using anything else
Yes!! Fully agree
Gimp is the best software IMO. And I use Gimp plus Inkscape for my design workflow. Such amazing pieces of software! And they play so nicely with each other, plus their UIs are so user intuitive. And the other great part about Gimp is the ability to add plugins made by users of the program. It’s incredible in that regard.
Like i use G’Mic pretty regularly.
@@vascanj I'd argue gimp isn't particularly user intuitive. In fact, I'd say user intuitivity (or lack thereof) is its main drawback, otherwise people would know how capable it actually is, but I think the UI stops them 😄
The assets you showed in Publisher and the fact you said it hasn't been updated in 10 years has me convinced this is what they use to make the majority of textbooks and exams.
I think 20 or even 25 years is more like it. They gave it the ribbon interface at some point after 2000 and that's about it. Microsoft has forgotten this program exists. It has bugs that it's had all that time. It can't even manage bleeds and printer's marks. They never put it on Mac, which is inconvenient, too. I suspect that one day they'll remember it - and kill it. A big shame - it could be good.
Everything is so refined and well-though out… and the family cameos is always really fun to watch.
I definitely like using capcut to make my designs, it's easy and offers different things (because it's a video editor), and because of this peculiarity, great and different things come out
Okay elliot, I have to say, I have been watching you for only a few short months, but what you managed to pull off in this video is nothing short of genius. The topic, editing, soundtrack, design, comedy, and charisma you showcased here made this content next level. you're doing a great job, looking forward to more!
LEGEND! too sweet 🥹🥹 thank you for mentioning the soundtrack i am v proud of the music in this one (i didn't make the music but curated it i now realise this sounds like i made the music)
also the grading in the commentary parts is so good
My favorite one is Krita, it's a wonderful FOSS app made by the KDE community, and as much as I love Gimp too, Krita is just so much better nowdays
I went from Photoshop to Paint Tool SAI to FireAlpaca to Krita. While I do miss some of the comic features of FireAlpaca, Krita is overall just an amazing drawing program, and I haven't gone back.
It’s basically a free Adobe Photoshop with a different UI but just as capable if not more.
I use Krita for all of my digital art needs. Not a graphic designer, though.
Not a graphic designer but I love all things art/design in general and pretty much as soon as Adobe went subscription based, I switched to Gimp, then Clip Studio Paint (otiginally MangaStudio). I actually like a lot of things about Clip Studio Paint better than I liked Photoshop, although it is slightly more limited in the graphic design department in my opinion.
Even better, it has full desktop version ported to mobile.
I was a social media manager for a student led conference and canva was so useful. I’m not a graphic designer, I’m barely good at social media but I was doing the work for free because I was passionate about the conference. Canva was fast and also fun, I could do animations super simply, import for different social media sites etc. Highly recommend !
you're an amazing designer that's why all the posters look awesome but it was great to see you trying so much give us a lot of peple perspectives and stuff great video
Inkscape had a major glow up some years ago. I remember being completely lost with it one time, decided to come back and it was almost like a completely different program
And now here we are with its biggest update a few weeks ago. I can relate here since my entire hobby is based around graphic design with Inkscape. Before then, it used to be so laggy and buggy but I’m so happy that it got a huge performance boost. I love using it cause of the simplicity of the app and how it enables me to create so much with its pallets of features, like filters and path effects.
logos by nick😭
Inkscape really makes one hell of a good first impression -- it feels like their core team has a decidedly better understanding of UI/UX (and especially on Windows) than the GIMP team does.
It does not work no matter how many tutorials I watch in it.I am using windows 11 latest update.I tried it several times.uninstall and re install it is Fooking garbage.
This is my first time learning you exist and I'm impressed! As a longtime Inkscape user, though, I want to tell you it does have one downside: You can't have multiple pages/artboards. That was what caused me to eventually switch to Affinity. I needed to make multi page PDFs.
They implemented it in the last update!!! I've been having a lot of fun creating multi page designs in Inkscape :D
Multi Pages feature was added year ago
i’m not on graphic design, but i have used inkscape a few times. i can’t figure out how to do a damn thing with it lol. it’s inscrutable
Upgrade my friend. Bottom icon on the tool pallete is 'pages'.
@@stephanief5794 hmm I would be interested see what exact did you struggled with. (I contirnute to inkscape ux design sometimes)
I have zero experience in graphic design, and adobe's price always made it something I never even considered, so it's really good to know there are actually some alternatives!
I am a corelDRAW main and I must say it looked very daunting when I first started playing around with it but after a couple of weeks I got very comfortable with it and now even implement some scripts here and there for more intricate and tedious designs, it is also nice that you can select a monthly subscription or a once off lifetime membership, would 100% recommend it.
I have both subscriptions for CorelDraw and Illustrator. CorelDraw just seems so much quicker. And it does scales, and has master layers like InDesign. 👍
I think what this shows more than anything is that the really hard part of design is to actually come up with a good design.
True 😢😢
Can’t remember the last time I was as impressed with a video than this lmao, was fully expecting it to have 1m+ views
we are only a day and a half into the life of this video WHO KNOWS WHAT CAN HAPPEN
not yet!! theres still time
I have NEVER enjoyed this much watching graphic design content before! LOVE THIS CHANNEL. I'm sad coz I discovered this so late
I love Inkscape, I teach graphic design at high school and we use it, it’s constantly getting updates and constantly getting better and better A lot of schools use affinity but they almost force you into getting the full suite with features spread across all their programs, ink scape has a does a lot
I have been unironically using powerpoint as my main design tool for the last 6 years. It is criminally underrated.
But when I downloaded it, the quality is not as good as Photoshop/ Illustrator/ Canva - as far as I experienced
@@syarifahmardhiah5103 you've got to change it through some files in your computer. Look up a tutorial on how to export images with high quality from powerpoint and you'll find your solution.
Open source alternative would be LibreOffice Impress.
This vid was recommended to me by YT, your sense of humour and comedic timing is hilarious and the style of video makes time fly by, instant sub and am inspired to get back into graphic design!!
thank you jordy 🥹🥹
I saw one video of you and i understand your whole content, chaotically(but informational) good chaos.
I'm a game developer and had my start in graphic design. I began with MS Paint, then used Corel Draw and Corel Photopaint way back when during the mid 90s.Then I dabbled a bit using MS Publisher, but used Paint Shop Pro regularly, then PaintNet, Inkscape, and Serif (later became Affinity). I use PaintNet the most since I'm used to it and has a lot of plugins I like. When I break out my more robust programming laptop, I use Affinity. Cool video!
Omg you didn’t mention procreate!! As an avid user of photoshop and illustrator but also being a tattoo artist, procreate is the industry standard. Has most of the functionality of photoshop but even better in some ways. Particularly for art making. So incredibly intuitive and responsive on the ipad ❤
Love Procreate
can you use it to make copies... of yourself
Yeah, but procreate is more of a digital art app then an app for graphic design, and I believe it’s only on mobile :)
but I do love procreate it’s very useful 👍
@@funallday6033 yeah it is for ipad but he didn’t specify. He was using some crazy stuff. And I definitely use procreate for some graphic design. Particularly what he was doing. Would have been perfect in this video and its just soooo good!!
I really like using CSP. It's mostly used for making comics, it works a lot like photoshop, but they have vector layers. The vector layers act like raster layers which is pretty cool.
True! CSP is amazing for artists, the layers, lineart and colouring is just so smooth but I can see why it's a bit meh for designers. Manipulating photos can be tricky/ bit of a nuisance sometimes.
would be coool if you made a video of resources for learning graphic design like maybe books or podcasts or idk, I really love your work and I wonder where do you get your inspiration from
Haven't used a design program in 8 years, need to use one today. Found your video.... loved it, helped a lot. And I do get the reference on the Skybus from Tullamarine
Some really cool features of Canva that people may not know. My favorite is you can upload custom fonts either ones you made or bought. Canva actually has a new drawing tool to make art in the app but it’s new and a bit glitchy but I feel in the coming updates they may also Intergrated vector drawing. All programs are tools and I use a mix of many different programs. My favorite are procreate and Canva. I can easily make my custom illustrations in procreate remove background, send straight to canva and my work flow is so seamless and all on my iPad. I tried a lot of the adobe suite but with my slow computer it’s honestly just a waste of time the programs just crash soo much, maybe I like too many layers.
not to be mean but every single app that features text edit allows font importation, every app in the video can do that. You can also do it in word, writer or whatever you use to make cool designs or give extra personality to your work. If you have a slow computer you may like the veteran combo inskape+gimp
@@unanec thanks I guess but I really love the combo of Procreate and Canva. As I said stated I mainly use my iPad for designing.
For a design communication course I need to consume 22 hours of graphic design content, thanks for helping me pass a class!
Blender, Inkscape and Krita... I was especially impressed by Krita. Focussed on painting digital art but damn it does it well.
You're a good speaker. Ur videos are never boring... I'm gonna subscribe u bro!
I was thinking to myself "I don't think he'll have Inkscape, it's not that well know" but to my surprise it actually made it in! And yes Inkscape is free, its the same as gimp in that they're both free and open source! Honestly I'm not that good at it and there's a lot of features I'm not aware of, but it's nice to work with every now and then. I wish more people got to know of its existence. Thank you for having it in the video!!
how is it not well known ? it literally the only free desktop based vector designer.
i would have written this comment but im more than happy you did. agree 100%. consider making a series on open source, e.g. using linux; just bear in mind the nature of free/open source software :)
I’ve been using Affinity products for about 4 years now and honestly, they’re near to perfect. My only gripe is that if you are collaborating with people who use photoshop, then good luck properly importing pad files into affinity cause adobe hates other programs lol
I just save everything in pdf and let them be.
@@SuckItDown that… sounds like a good idea. Thanks for letting me know!
I love the Affinity suite so much, it’s the best
I just began entering the online design world (I can't afford animation uni at another state, so design it is!) and I began using inkscape, and even tho I've never used any other design software, you can FEEL inkscape's awesomeness
Inkscape is honestly great. No pitfalls to come, actually open source and really solid. I've used and loved it for years.
I love the censor that didn’t cover the word. It’s like you edited it in Blender! 9:41
The frustrating part of this is that you clearly have experience in photoshop, so it's hard to fairly compare the different programs given your proficiency. However, free is always better in my books.
this is the best quality vid i’ve seen today, so fun and goofy and silly just so enjoyable. will be subscribing and tuning in for more
I stumbled across your channel today and I'm actually obsessed. SUCH GOOD CONTENT AND SUCH GOOD VIBES.
gimp is definitely one of the best photoshop alternatives. It's very intimidating at first, but once you get used to it, you can basically do (mostly) everything that other photo editors/design programs can do
The real problem is the software is pretty dormant on development instead of Inkscape.
did you tried Krita?
Paint net is better
@@spectaclesocietyi use a mix of krita and gimp, krita is better for making original images and photo manipulation + drawing + logos and gimp is good for putting all the objects into a final design.
@@CyberCommercialBroadcasting there's tons of community-made plugins tho, which should cover basically any need you have
You know Blender has a 2D startup file as well, letting you design 2D things far more easily? Its main tool is Grease pencil, but 3D objects can still be used.
yes but then i'd have to put it in the adobe bucket and not the silly bucket
Yes, but not a good one.
Your video randomly popped up on my recommended page and I must say I really enjoyed it. It was informative and funny, and got me excited to learn stuff about design, even though I should be working on my master's thesis on journalism, which is a totally different subject. I hope my like & comment helped you buy an iced latte or two lol
LOVE Affinity. I’m so used to Affinity now that I’ve forgotten so much of Adobe
I've been using Affinity Desinger/ Photo for over two years now (creating new free trial accounts every month) and as an individual who can't afford any of the Adobe products I'm more than satisfied with all of it's functions. It is pretty much noticable that Affinity itself is a work in progress meaning that many features aren't fully fleshed out or optimized ( the gradient tool for example is absolutely horrible since you cant make it follow a path ) but that wouldn't stop me from recommending it to other designers new or experienced.
Just pirate the programs lol
Pirate Adobe, support Affinity - they're the underdog man, c'mon. Their one-time payment is a steal anyways.
I can I pirate adobe I’ve been searching and can’t find anything worth it’s salt.
If you get the full affinity suite, they combine into one program when using publisher which is amazing cause it means master pages for photo and designer as well!
im defs looking for into it
as someone who mostly designs stuff for print with lots of text, i dont think canva is a good substitute for indesign, but i see how its a helpful tool for people who want to spice up stuff like presentations or want to make nice looking instagram posts without too much hassle. a lot of my beef with it also comes from people who expect me to make my designs (that i made in illustrator) in canva so they can use/edit it for their needs. while i love the idea of more accessible design tools, i dont know if i want people messing around with the stuff i made without me overseeing it. also coping my indesign design to canva is an absolute nightmare. also shocked to see quarxpress is still around lol, i remember my dad using it in the 90s. i think it was the industry standard before indesign took its place around the early 2000s
Love the video. Just side note about Blender. It also has a 2D aspect called Grease pencil. Definitely something to look into for combining 3D and 2D graphics design.
So so happy to see the love for inkscape! I’ve been an inkscape user for over 3 years now and have built my design business on it. It’s amazing and I’ve not even scraped the surface on its capabilities. Actually I’ve never used a single Adobe product and I make a full time income designing. Loved the video, you’ve got a sub from me!
I do 95% of my work in inkscape (designing and grading sewing patterns and illustrations for the sewing instructions) I only use Illustrator, because I need to eport layered PDF, which Inkscape is not capable of yet. I hate every minute, I have to use AI and every penny I have to spend on it. I am biting my nails, until Martin Owens and other developers finaly get to implementing export layered PDF too.
living in a canva paradise~ LIFE CHANGING INTERLUDE
me using word to do design for school projects
can highly recommend everyone to check out the full thing it is amazing
I was an Illustrator users for YEARS. I literally made every graphic design project in my high school there. It has cool stuff especially the new update which is the 3D feature-which you could turn literally every 2D objects into 3D, and they have plenty cool 3D textures. I was so stubborn into using Photoshop as my main graphic design software. Now I don't think I would go back to illustrator LOL. It's been like 2 months since I started using PS as my main software. I still use Illustrator though for the pen tool and the other stuff you could make like the 3D grid objects. (I'm not yet that comfortable with the pen tool of Photoshop) I watched this video if there were-you know hidden treasures out there-that would replace the Adobe Suite. Probably it will still remain the top creative suite in the market.
The only problem with Elliot videos is how they’re not hours long because I LOVE EVERY SECOND ELLIOT OKAY
I use photopea at work because the tech guy keeps forgetting to install photoshop and I'm not allowed to do it myself and it works so great besides the slowness. Happy to see it included! Also, awesome designs, Elliot :)
i will defend inkscape with my life. it is my mother my father my child my husband my wife my everything. could not recommend it more
Same here. Inkscape gave me a future and enabled me. I owe so much to this program 😍
I so understood that notion of it being hard to try a new app when you're so used to one. I was the opposite I was dead set on illustrator for projects I probably could've used photoshop for and made my life so much easier. But gradually using other apps dabbing your feet in the waters gets you used to it.
I really loved that video! You put so much work into it! ❤
I’m so happy you loved Inkscape. I was introduced to it by the keycap designing community and has been loving it ever since. Don’t have to pay a dime for that amazing tool.
this video was so funny and interesting that i actually didn't even let my gaze wander to the suggested video tab or the comment section throughout 🥰
this is a CERTIFIED ELLIOT W!
As someone that once taught college students how to create physics lab graphs in Excel, the Excel design is perfect.
This is the time I'm watching this channel and I love Elliott's energy 😂😂❤
Man, I feel like you would have been massively successful on KZhead a couple years back but nowadays KZhead doesn't push new content like it used to. Very underrated channel, wish you luck!
Had war flashbacks to my childhood "computers" class when you brought up KidPix... I really appreciate all the effort and research you put in for this video! I've been meaning to try out some of the cheaper / free alternatives to Adobe software for a while, so this is just inspiring me more. Thanks Elliot!!
I love your videos!!! U have inspired me so much to start designing again, thank u :)