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>I never understood why people are buying proprietary, expensive stuff like Photoshop just for mock-ups. People have been using Photoshop for years (like mysel
by karterk 16y ago
>I never understood why people are buying proprietary, expensive stuff like Photoshop just for mock-ups.
People have been using Photoshop for years (like myself), and personally these people feel that open source equivalents like GIMP are still way off in terms of competing with Photoshop.
>First of all, vector graphics tools like Inkscape are a lot better suited for that task.
I have used both Inkscape and Photoshop for quite a few years. It's unfair to even compare them. And, frankly Photoshop _is_ far more powerful if you want to go for high fidelity mockups.
- xyzzyb 16y agoWhy not fireworks over photoshop? Its hybrid vector/imaging toolset make for a good web design experience.
- tiddchristopher 16y agoIn my experience, Fireworks is far less useful when it comes to the creation of graphics after the initial wireframing. On the other hand, Photoshop [and GIMP] is completely usable throughout the entire design process. For this reason, many designers would rather learn, and pay for, only one product, and that product is Photoshop. As a side note, although GIMP lags in a few areas, notably on the typography side of things, it's the best product for my needs when I weigh cost and features, and only rarely do I find myself wishing I had tossed several hundred dollars for Photoshop.