“The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model.”
The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I’ve never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.
Darktable, Inkscape, Seashore, Sumo paint, PhotoScape, RawTherapee, MyPaint, Pixia, Pinta, Shotwell etc…
It’s pratically every year a new one comes out and due to their open source nature you can simply send them a git ticket if there is a missing feature. You can even contribute to the project yourself if the authors aren’t responding.