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People in design agencies have simply no chance to work with GIMP. If they cannot open files from recent versions of PS, they cannot do their job. I have seen t

People in design agencies have simply no chance to work with GIMP. If they cannot open files from recent versions of PS, they cannot do their job. I have seen this a lot. People send you files, which you can only open (properly) with a recent version of PS. They just expect that you can work with them. Same with MS Office. Same with Illustrator. Same with expensive 3D software. I am sure, some designers would love to work with OS, but their social environment makes it too hard for them.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
People in design agencies have PS, and can open anything a client sends. Once they have their source material they can work in any environment they like. Adobe makes it convenient to always "color within their lines". One thing that strikes me as ironic, is the notion that you can tell a creative person how to perform some arbitrary creative task. People send all kinds of garbage to design firms (my wife is a creative type at such a firm), including Adobe files but also including every other kind of junk you can imagine. >Same with MS Office. Yes, terrible people, we all have worked with them, but we don't want to emulate them. >Same with expensive 3D software. Good technique is good technique, skills are skills, a competent person can adapt their workflow to a new method or vehicle. A competent artist can express themselves in more than one medium. It comes down to this, if you are constrained to a single tool made by a single vendor, you are strictly a technician (in the narrowest sense).