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      Figma is a vector drawing app that was originally for UX design (an Adobe XD competitor), but they just added a bunch of graphic design tools that compete with Adobe Illustrator.

      Canva does a lot of raster and vector image editing that originally targeted people that were not design pros, but they’ve been adding a lot of features that allow people to make some professional quality stuff stuff with ease.

      All in all, both companies are growing into the spaces Adobe dominated. If you were a UX designer who needed to occasionally use Illustrator for a more detailed illustration, maybe you no longer need that Adobe CS license.

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        Canva also owns Affinity, which is a direct competitor to some of adobe’s main offering.

        This had better not leave to further enshitification of the PDF format, I will snap if signing government forms gets any worse.

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        now we need a photoshop equivelent, and i mean all of photoshop’s features in one piece of software, not 3 combined

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        What’s good about it, is that it is really easy to export the desings to be used by a mobile developer - you drop the part where you build an interface out of pictures, it is the interface from the start.