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He missed a group of people: any designer who did not entrust their entire professional workflow to a single, for-profit company whose best interests are in mov
by RyanZAG 13y ago
He missed a group of people: any designer who did not entrust their entire professional workflow to a single, for-profit company whose best interests are in moving your workflow in ways that benefit the company over the user. Being dependent on something like Photoshop for your only income is a terrible position to be in, yet it is how I'd describe most designers today.
- sz4kerto 13y agoThat situation cannot be (or should not be) avoided if a product is significantly better that any other competitor on the market. You can choose between - depending on the for-profit company - having disadvantage on the marketplace because of inferior tools I think the former is often preferable.
- bigiain 13y agoFWIW, I think people are doing their careers a great dis-service if they're selling themselves just as "Photoshop Technicians".
- hengheng 13y agoNot being able to use CMYK is a terrible perspective if you ever get a chance of printing something.
- hnha 13y agoCMYK is not exclusive to Photoshop, is it?
- arb99 13y agoI guess one of the main competitors to Photoshop is gimp... last time I checked it had bad support for CMYK (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIMP https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIM... )
- hnha 13y agoGimp is just one free alternative, i guess you knew about its cmyk troubles and posted because of that. Why limit yourself to Gimp though? Check.out other alternatives. I posted some in another comment in this thread.
- RyanZAG 13y agoPossibly a kickstarter to code CMYK into gimp would be a good idea? If the gimp team doesn't let you do it, it should be easy enough to fork it with a bit of financial backing from a kickstarter.
- j2kun 13y agoOf course he missed that it's not funny.