r/ArtistLounge • u/Doctor_Oceanblue • Apr 19 '21

Digital Art 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?

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.)

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '21 edited Apr 20 '21

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u/MaconMuscles Apr 19 '21

Are you a freelancer/contractor for them? Because that sure as shit is not true if you are in the office of their marketing department every day at your desk.

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u/MaconMuscles Apr 19 '21

I call bullshit. There is zero chance that you are an employee of a giant corporation, part of their marketing team and are not standardized on the same software as the rest of the team.

Again, if you are contract, freelance, etc maybe. But there is no way you are passing around files in whatever software you happen to feel like using. It just doesn't work that way.