I have decided to finally act on a dream of mine to pursue a creative hobby, and I hope to eventually get to a point where I am making either webcomics or youtube videos.
Unlike a good number of youtubers already, I am fucking poor, and adobe is the gold standard of editing software and they know it, hence why it's so overpriced.
I would happy to hear of any alternatives.
Affinity Photo is a good alternative to Ps, if you are editing - you buy it once and keep the license forever and if you are more into creative work, I recommend Clip Studio - it's what I use now after moving away from Ps for my painting. It has a raft of extra features for making comics - from in-built 3D tools to build scenes that you can use as the basis for line work (including figure posing and importing assets), to creating pages with editable comic frames. They occasionally have sales where you can pick it up for 50% off.
And Shotcut is a feature-heavy open source video editor that is awesome. Comes with robust non-linear editing, audio and video effects, and solid export options. I use it instead of Premiere for quick editing jobs, works like a champ.