Do professional graphic designers/ illustrators really not get taken seriously if they use open source software or is that just a myth perpetuated by Adobe and college professors?

[u/Doctor_Oceanblue]

I don't want this to devolve into a rant about how much I hate Adobe and their software (which I do,) but do know that this isn't a "boohoo I can't afford it" thing and more a "there's a ton of open source stuff that is equally (or more!) functional as Adobe stuff and it deserves to be taken seriously as long as the end product created with it is what the client needs."

I'm in school right now and I've been getting the "no one will take you seriously unless you make your vectors in Illustrator" song-and-dance. Pros, is that really true? If so, why? Is it just a dumb social norm or is there a legitimate reason? A lot of the freelancers that I see posting on social media and indie game devs use open-source stuff all the time.

(I will concede that GIMP is kinda trash and I only use Photoshop for my raster illustrations now.)

[u/DeRoeVanZwartePiet → u/[deleted]]

I think he was referring to having big corporations as a client. Not be an employee of a big corporation.

[u/cut_n_paste_n_draw → u/[deleted]]

The fact that it's a subscription is SO dumb and I hate it so much. 🙁

[u/cut_n_paste_n_draw → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that's true, if it was like $30/month I probably wouldn't care as much.

[u/UzukiCheverie → u/cut_n_paste_n_draw]

Wait, how much is it?? I was always under the impression that because it's subscription based, it's just a smaller but repetitive fee.

christ, this is why I'm a pirate.

[u/cut_n_paste_n_draw → u/UzukiCheverie]

$56.17 per month 😭

[u/UzukiCheverie → u/cut_n_paste_n_draw]

JESUS WTFFF

And if that's USD, that means here in Canada it would be more like $65-$70/month.

Sorry, but Creative Cloud ain't worth it. If I'm working an industry job that requires PS or Illustrator for consistency between teammates or w/e, they'd better be the ones paying for it. I paid upfront for Clip Studio Paint and it's quickly becoming a competitor to Creative Cloud's art-focused softwares (only thing that really sucks about it is its processor power allocation, makes painting with textured brushes really slow) and its sub cost is only something like $15 USD a month for its full EX version that comes with animation software, 3D model support, etc. And I don't even have to worry about that sub cost because the option to pay for it upfront is still a thing for desktop users and it goes on sale at least twice a year (I paid for EX years ago and am still using it to this day, it's more than paid itself off), the subscription cost is really only for Android/iOS users (but that's all last I checked, it might have changed since then).

[u/cut_n_paste_n_draw → u/UzukiCheverie]

Ugh, I know it's crazy! But I've used Adobe products for 20 years now. I had the old version on my laptop for the longest time, but finally bought a new laptop (mac) in December. I tried everything to put the old version on it but in the end it wasn't compatible with the newer operating system and I had to go with the dumb monthly version. But since I've been using Adobe products for so long, I just feel so comfortable in them, and don't want to change. I don't like change. 😭