What are the best free Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives?

Adobe Creative Cloudwent down for 24 hours earlier, which means that creative brains around the world were desperately struggling to complete jobs that require the comprehensive suite of services.

The good news is that there are plenty of free alternatives professionals can use to get by and below is an extensive rundown of each product.

The Best Free Photoshop CC Replacement --GIMP

Feature-wise there is nothing free that comes closer to Adobes creation than the Gimp freeware solution. It is available across Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and the most recent incarnation looks closer to Photoshop than ever before with a range of features that will have many users considering switching over for good.

For those that are slightly put off by the Gimp UI there is a Photoshop port that makes it look exactly the same and the new single-window mode makes it feel like a true replacement for Adobes product.

The Best Free Illustrator CC Replacement --Inkscape

Vector-based graphics editing is Illustrators unique selling point (USP) and the good news is that there is another application in Inkscape that takes the selling out of the USP. The UI doesnt have the wow factor of Adobes creation, however, Inkscape is a more than capable replacement and can perform all the import tasks of Illustrator and at a fraction of the cost.

It enables users to create everything from simple logo forms to complex graphics and its Gradient tool is comparable to Illustrators vaunted Gradient Mesh tool. Inkscape makes it simple to scale any drawings up or down and is really the only true, free alternative to Illustrator.

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What are the best free Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives?