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You really don't need Adobe Creative Cloud for most workflows now. You may prefer it, and that's fine—it's really not that expensive if you're making professional income—but you can easily go without it.
Here are some completely FREE options to replace Adobe and other expensive creative software:
Affinity Studio to replace
↳ Photoshop
↳ Illustrator
↳ InDesign
Cavalry to replace
↳ After Effects
DaVinci Resolve to replace
↳ Premiere
↳ After Effects (via Fusion)
↳ Lightroom (via Photos)
↳ Audition, specifically for film audio uses (via Fairlight)
Universal Audio Luna to replace
↳ Adobe Audition
↳ Ableton, for DAW use, not live performance
↳ most other paid DAWs
PenPot (Self-Hosted or Free versions) to replace
↳ Figma