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Right. I've been a subscriber to Adobe's Creative Cloud for almost 10 years now - which means I've paid them upwards of $6,000 by now - even though I only use 3
by DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Right. I've been a subscriber to Adobe's Creative Cloud for almost 10 years now - which means I've paid them upwards of $6,000 by now - even though I only use 3 programs (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator) and even then I only really use base-level functionality that's been present in those titles long before they became subscription-only: if it weren't for (normal and understandable) platform-obsolescence (high-DPI support, support for new formats/codecs, etc) then I'd still be happy with a boxed edition of Creative Suite I could have bought for $1200[1] back in 2013
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130808023019/http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65163194-CS6-Design-Standard/dp/B007R0RJ8W https://web.archive.org/web/20130808023019/http://www.amazon...
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoHave you tried Scribus, Krita, Inkscape, say. Is familiarity worth the cost?
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoI haven't tried any of those suggestions, regrettably; as I've heard good things about them. But it's not just familiarity, but also about compatibility: I need to be able to open my PSD/AI files going back decades with absolute fidelity; and I know one of the dirty secrets of other programs that claim to have "PSD compatibility" is that they just read the composite version of the image, instead of being able to import individual layers with blending/effects settings, etc.