Re:Xkcd: Encryptic
by RyanZAG on Monday November 04, 2013 @05:00AM
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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 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.
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That 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.
FWIW, I think people are doing their careers a great dis-service if they're selling themselves just as "Photoshop Technicians".
Not being able to use CMYK is a terrible perspective if you ever get a chance of printing something.
Possibly 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.
CMYK is not exclusive to Photoshop, is it?
I 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_GIM... )
Gimp 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.