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Ok, you want the longer answer? I know several professional designers who only (or mostly) use free software. Gimp inclusive. They do this as a matter of cho

by aoloe 10y ago

Ok, you want the longer answer? I know several professional designers who only (or mostly) use free software. Gimp inclusive. They do this as a matter of choice. And there are many more professional designers, who use free software for parts of their workflow. They do it, for many different reasons, but mostly because it just happens to fit their needs. Some of them use Gimp. If you would have read the article linked above, you would know that it's mostly about a professional designer (Aryeom) who is using Gimp for her work on an animation film. Personally, I still believe that you're question would have deserved only a "42" type of answer. "Professional designers" is such a vast term... But, hey I'm so generous today :-) P.S.: I don't want to get into a discussion on who is a professional designer and who is not, so I avoid putting links to the ones I know are using only/mostly free software... But here are the names of the first ones that comes to mind: Cédric, Elisa, Vlada, Camille, David, ...

damptowel 10y ago
Well, only a shoddy craftsman blames his tools, but if you work in a design or ad agency everyone uses the Adobe monoculture because no one wants to deal with potential asset pipeline hickups when under tight deadlines. I'm sure there's freelancers who prefer gimp, but in the industry it's far from accepted, most designers will only know it exists but won't bother trying because they've been cosy with PS for over a decade.
- Joof 10y ago
  Photoshop is getting less convenient to pirate; I'm starting to see more and more people who have grown up using gimp and have no desire to switch to Photoshop.
  - rpgmaker 10y ago
    Photoshop is as easy to pirate as it has ever been. The "SaaS" licensing scheme hasn't changed this one bit.
    - 0xmohit 10y ago
      > The "SaaS" licensing scheme ... It's the "crooked" licensing scheme.
  - 0xmohit 10y ago
    Long time back, I wanted to timestamp certain pictures (a couple of hundred). That is, pick up the timestamp from EXIF metadata and put the date on a corner of the photo. I wasn't able to do it programatically using Adobe tools. FOSS on Linux did that for me.

by aoloe 10y ago

damptowel 10y ago

Well, only a shoddy craftsman blames his tools, but if you work in a design or ad agency everyone uses the Adobe monoculture because no one wants to deal with potential asset pipeline hickups when under tight deadlines. I'm sure there's freelancers who prefer gimp, but in the industry it's far from accepted, most designers will only know it exists but won't bother trying because they've been cosy with PS for over a decade.

Joof 10y ago
Photoshop is getting less convenient to pirate; I'm starting to see more and more people who have grown up using gimp and have no desire to switch to Photoshop.
- rpgmaker 10y ago
  Photoshop is as easy to pirate as it has ever been. The "SaaS" licensing scheme hasn't changed this one bit.
  - 0xmohit 10y ago
    > The "SaaS" licensing scheme ... It's the "crooked" licensing scheme.
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  Long time back, I wanted to timestamp certain pictures (a couple of hundred). That is, pick up the timestamp from EXIF metadata and put the date on a corner of the photo. I wasn't able to do it programatically using Adobe tools. FOSS on Linux did that for me.