[off-topic] PhotoPrint

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 12:45 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> You might be thinking of Pantone colors? If so, Pantone and Adobe 
> recently ripped those out of Photoshop, and made it so that you have
> to buy the ability to use those colors from Pantone.
> 
> Which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that this also
> means that, if you used to use the free Pantone colors in an older
> version of Photoshop, and then upgrade Photoshop, it will render all
> of the places where you used those colors before as **black**. Which
> essentially extorts money out of users in order to see the artwork
> that they made.
> 
> The lesson here (at least for me) is, it doesn't matter if the 
> proprietary equivalent of something has better features or if you have
> enough money to buy it. Go with open source, the proprietary stuff can
> and will mess you up.

Hi,

Adobe has become something of a standard for professional companies. It
doesn't matter to them if this results in absurdly high rental costs for
them, since they can write something off through taxes or otherwise.
Freelance artists and similar professionals gravitate towards Affinity.
One occasionally hears that Inkscape is used. Gimp, Krita and Co. are
practically not used at all. The reason for this is that actually FLOSS
stuff can and will mess you up, proprietary stuff doesn't. In summary,
if you want to work professionally, stay away from FLOSS unless you want
to complicate your work unnecessarily, prolong your working hours, and
annoy unnecessary bugs or design decisions. Proprietary solutions
sometimes suffer from bugs and bad design decisions, too, but Affinity
listens to its customers, while FLOSS programmers usually don't care at
all about the opinion of the users. The coasts for Affinity are minimal
and there's no monthly fee.

Don't simply believe me, ask freelance artists and similar professionals
who don't make a lot of money. They will tell you the same. You will
hear Affinity, Inksape, but unlikely Gimp.

Ask professionals who make a lot of money and you likely will hear
Adobe.

Regards,
Ralf