


It's all intuitive, and kind of "how it should be" to me. I had an ATARI and it was so awesome compared to everything else. Ĭlearly all this is nothing more than my own opinion and you know what they say about opinions. Sometimes the 'newest features' are not all that much needed. I am NOT pleased with the recent Adobe change to Cloud based programs, but I'm fortunate enough to have the older versions that you used to be able to get and 'own'. I must have detailed typography tools for kerning, leading, etc. I want easy to work with, dependable WYSIWYG both for images, colors, and type. And yes, you can get things done with them.Īt the same time, I have to say they just don't work well enough for me. I think it is wonderful that people do create free, Open Source tools for graphics and I applaud their efforts. Still, with that said, I have never found any Open Source tools that work as well as Photoshop and Illustrator and Acrobat. Now look, I'm a 'reaper guy' right? I am no more in love with Adobe than I am with AVID. This is still mostly true and there are good reasons for people in the design industry using these tools. Īs computers and programs got better, Adobe began to emerge as the industry standard It is amazing to think that this was not really all that long ago. At that time, Atari computers could do things that neither PC's nor Mac's could do. especially with fonts and typography and also with precision of layout.

because it could do things that Adobe only dreamed about. Then when computers did come into the game, I worked on the biggest, baddest Atari system anyone could have in a program called Calamus. when we had to work with typography houses, and do the photo work and art work by hand and by copy cameras, etc. I started doing graphics work before computers existed. well ya'all can pound me for what I'm about to say.
