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Alternative FOSS Software for Popular Premium Software

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In the present software has become more expensive than hardware parts, normally  we can buy average laptop under $500 but we have to spend nearly $200 just only for operating system. We all know operating system cannot fulfill all our computerized needs, so we have to buy other software too.

Most of people used to use popular software because they can easily find tutorials for popular software and the developers of those software invest more money for their advertising.  

A considerable amount of computer users do not pay for their software, they use cracks, patches and different kind of technologies to use premium software without paying. Most of those cracks and patches are not 100% clean they comes with spyware, adware etc...

We can use open source software instead of using cracked premium software.

Here are some best alternative software for popular premium software. 

Ardour


Ardour is good alternative for audio recording and editing software like FL Studio, Adobe Audition. FL Studio costs $199.99 and Adobe Audition costs more than $200. Audio Engineers, Musicians, Soundtrack Editors and Composers can use Ardour because it has many rich features. Ardour is available for Windows, Linux and OS X platforms. Latest version of Ardour is Ardour 5.12 and you can download it from their official site.   

BRL‑CAD


BRL-CAD is a powerful open source cross-platform solid modeling system that can replace AutoCAD that costs more than $2000. BRL-CAD includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis. This software has been used by U.S Military for more than 20 years.
You can download BRL-CAD from sourceforge.net . 

Scribus

Scribus is a professional full-featured page layout program. It's the best alternative open source software for Adobe InDesign. CMYK colors, spot colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation are some professional publishing features in Scribus. It also rendering markup languages like LaTex.  You can use Scribus on Windows, OS X and Linux platforms. Download their latest version here.

GIMP

Adobe Photoshop is most popular photo editing software among all of photo editors, but it costs more than $500 per year. It supports High Quality Photo Manipulation, Original Artwork Creation and Design Graphical Elements. Also GIMP is a high quality framework for scripted image manipulation with multi-language support. You can download GIMP for Windows, Linux and OS X platforms here. 

Inkscape

Inkscape is a  professional vector graphic editor tool instead of using Abode Illustrator.It provides you Flexible drawing tools, Board file format compatibility, Powerful text tool etc.You can create illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts , logos and complex painting.
Get newest version here.

Libreoffice


LibreOffice is the best Open Source alternative for Microsoft Office that forked from OpenOfflice.
LibreOffice comes with Writer  - word processor , Calc - spreadsheet, Impress for presentations, Draw for diagrams, Base for databases and Math for formula editor. You can expand LibreOffice's functionality with available extensions from LibreOffice Extension Center. Also LibreOffice offers a portable version and you can download latest version from their office website.

OpenShot Video Editor

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OpenShot Video Editor is an award winning video editing software. You can use this software instead of using Adobe Premiere Pro. OpenShot Video Editor is a cross-platform application and it gives you awesome features. Unlimited Tracks, Video Effects Engine, 3D Animation and Slow Motion are few of them. Try it here.

Blender


Blender is the open source public 3D creation suite that is developed by hundred of people from round the world. Blender supports modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, game creation. Blender has become much popular with VFX professionals.  You can replace AutoDesk Maya with Blender. Blender is available for Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. Download latest version of blender from here.


Hope you get something from the article and try to use this Free and Open Source software.

Following  animation  video is created by using  Blender . 😍




~ Sudaraka Senavirathne 
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