Are there any cheaper and good alternatives to the pricey Adobe Creative Suite?

I’m a design student, and I don’t plan to use the said software/s to generate money whatsoever. I need it for school, but I’ve heard that the full creative suite costs around $1000. I know of alternatives, but I need ones that are cheaper but don’t actually sacrifice quality. Open-source ones are also welcome.

It depends what you are actually doing. There are a number of packages in CS, and some of them have good, cheap alternatives available.

If you are doing a course which teaches you how to use Creative Suite, then you are going to struggle if you try to use different software which has different featuresets and interfaces.

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