But a lot of that also has to do with the nature of web design- it’s not really web design anymore. Web design is a field that moved away from Adobe long ago for a couple of reasons: after Adobe took over Dreamweaver when Adobe bought Macromedia, it went from ‘ok’ to ‘shitshow’ to ‘mostly unnecessary’ unless you’re working on large-scale enterprise site deployments, in which case you still may be using other tools. And until someone developed something that can, Adobe CC will be king.
But, in the end, there’s just nothing that can compete with what Adobe products and Adobe CC does. Shit, Macromedia Freehand was unquestionably superior to Illustrator in every way, but when Adobe bought Macromedia in 2004, they unceremoniously killed it. Sure, competing apps may have a feature hear-and-there that may do this-or-that better. Holy shit!”īut the fact remains that they’re the gold standard because they’re the best suite of creative apps ever to exist and have extensive enterprise support with enterprise content management through Adobe Experience Manager. Now that I’ve gone freelance, I have to pay for it myself, and I thought to myself, “I just fucking paid for an Adobe product for the first time in my life.
#Cancel adobe creative cloud for free#
I had pirated it (well, photoshop, illustrator, and pagemaker, anyway) all through high school, and I’d gotten it for free in design school and when I worked for an agency.
I couldn’t believe it, really, when I did. I hate having to pay for my own license- hell, I just started paying for it for the first time in 25 years of using Adobe products. Maybe Affinity will be there in 5-10 years, but not today.
#Cancel adobe creative cloud professional#
It may be good enough for hobbyists, but if you’re a professional, you need professional software. I’ve also had translation errors here and there, not to mention issues with layer styles and some other various photoshop features not available in Affinity Photo. I can’t waste time re-importing all that like it’s 2004, which I have to do with an Affinity-produced asset. If I’m updating assets in Photoshop and save artboards, the tweak some element in Illustrator, I just want to save them and have it all live-update in XD. When my documents don’t get dynamic updates through saves across 2 or 3 apps I have open, Affinity’s apps become a massive liability for time, and that’s not even getting into the sizable deficit in features/functionality. Affinity’s apps can’t interoperate with Adobe’s apps, and that breaks production workflows. Just automated letters and ads.įor actual professionals, it’s Adobe or nothing at all. They havent really tried to get me back, no calls is what i meant.
I gotta manually round corners like a pleb, kinda tedious. Thats a new thing in CC, and i do miss it. Hardest thing to get used to: Ai, the 'direct select tool' easy corner rounding in CC. Had already uninstalled CC, and was getting used to CS6 again. They sent me a couple offers, then after i told them i wont be renewing they sent me an automated letter telling me id have 90 days free of CC. So I let the subscription run out, watched it count down. So id hsd it with CC after trying to fix it multiple ways. Back to it.ĬC would make me login like 30x a day if it was an all day session. There are new features, but not enough to say CS6 isnt a totallly viable tool still. They want you on that subscription model.
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