💻👦🖱 Photoshop and Illustrator >= 500💵😨

Question

Is it justified to use such expensive programs in webdesign? I know we use a small part of their possibilities!
How much better gimp and inkscape? Or other sixpenny alternatives? And I know also that Adobe instruments are more powerful, but nevertheless...

What can you suggest? What do you think? What design tools do you like?

Answer 1

Adobe has support + I think most of their products can be used as web services these days, ie monthly subscription, rather than a huge sum of money to buy the product. Those are important to companies.
If you are an individual or an independent freelancer it makes no sense to invest that much in my opinion...

Answer 2

I've recently downloaded inkscape and I find it a bit challenging to use. How did you guys learn it? Can you recommend some good tutorials?

Answer 3

i like inkscape it's best in svg

Answer 4

YouTube channels and official docs😉

Answer 5

But I like open source very much!👍 There are so many good alternatives, especially for novices and noobs as myself, who can't buy this products👦

Answer 6

I didn't said about comparing these amazing products and gamedevelop industry or cinematographics, or 3d motion etc...

Only web design, only making of templates

Only reasonable purposes of using Photoshop and Illustrator😊

Maybe unity or unreal?😀

Answer 7

i like gimp because its pre installed lol

Answer 8

adobe has a higher reputation so they dont mind wasting bucks to draw lol

Answer 9

In fact their instruments are more professional😉 It's simply fact.

Answer 10

@Nikolay 👏
Absolutely agree with you. I meant exact this too!

Answer 11

Why then almost all big and high-level studios use Adobe instruments?😉

Answer 12

I know what is gimp😉
I know Krita, but I'm not an artist

unfortunately we have standards as psd layouts in web design, and free alternative of Photoshop is gimp of course

Try to work with web design studios, I'm affraid that they haven't got Krita😢

for individual funny projects you can use excel from MS (i'm not kidding you) and even paint, but what programs use serious guys in web design industry? I'm not meant (sketch on MacOS) or Affinity, and incalculable amount of other products

Answer 13

we have something of monopoly about Adobe products like Autodesk products, or Siemens products, or Matlab, or Solid, or Catia and so one in other kind of industries...

and in some reasons it's good of cause!!!

Answer 14

Why bad?
If you don't trust any of those cracks thats why you can always use VM incase if the crack will have some Rats BackDoors worms and etc.
And if you still dont trust the crack. Check for source and if the source is not shared. Try to decompile it. Or you can just search for key's that way no need to spend ur cash and buy something else for those money that you were ready to spend :v

Answer 15

I just want to be a web designer, I don't want assemblers or reverse engineering😁

Answer 16

I like adobe online services: kuler, portfolio, it's Photoshop-online (unfortunately I don't remember exact name😢). Last tool is very convenient. You can upload psd and work with template like on your local machine and even generate css, also work with fonts in layout!👍

and many-many others...

Answer 17

there's no time, do you like knitting or diving? I think these skills will come in handy oneday😁😁

Great thanks for participate☺😉😉

Answer 18

😂😂 Why not? One day you could need it. Theres no limit for a person to evolve.

Answer 19

I like The adobe Xd (Experience Design). its in beta but the best in this category.

Answer 20

@deXter
Agree, cool tool👍
Though can't compete with Sketch on Mac yet. But I hope it will grow very much soon

and I'm window guy😀😀😀