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Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?

Posted by kdawson on from the sure-the-gimp-has-a-plugin dept.

jsepeta writes "I've been using Adobe products for years, and own several older versions of the products from their Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro, and Dreamweaver. I'd like to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford $2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite and, frankly, shouldn't need to because there should be competitive products on the market. But I can't seem to locate software for graphic design and printing that outputs CMYK files that printing companies will accept. And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design. Any suggestions? Our company is notoriously frugal and would certainly entertain the idea of using open source products if we could implement them in a way that doesn't infringe upon our Microsoft-centric hegemony / daily work tasks in XP."

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  1. Wait... by Rix · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean people actually buy photoshop?

    1. Re:Wait... by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now now, don't put yourself down, it's perfectly possible to be both!

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    2. Re:Wait... by daranz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah, so you're the guy who bought a Photoshop copy and therefore covered the entirety of the development costs of the current and the next version. Thanks!

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  2. arrrr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My dad was a programmer and thanks to pirates like you now he give homeless men blowjobs on the street in broad daylight for crack and meth. You ruined his life!

    1. Re:arrrr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your dad was doing that before he lost his job.

  3. The first rule of The GIMP by amyhughes · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first rule of The GIMP is you don't talk about The GIMP.

    Watch how many moderation points get blown stifling any suggestion that The GIMP isn't up to the level of Photoshop.

    Watch how many moderation points get blown on this here comment :P

  4. Re:I could compare GIMP to Photoshop by soupforare · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's an unfair analogy, the GIMP isn't economical or easy to drive.

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  5. Re:no alternative by supersnail · · Score: 3, Funny

    Car metaphors:-
                          OS-X -- Lexus - overpriced but kool.
                          Win XP. -- 2001 GM - cheap but uncool.
                          Win Vista -- 2007 Cadilac -- overpriced but still uncool.
                          Linux -- Ford pickup -- cheap, sort of kool anti-cool.

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  6. Re:Let's all suggest mspaint... by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently some people swear by mspaint. Most people swear at it.
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  7. Re:GIMP = low investment, great productivity by the_mushroom_king · · Score: 5, Funny

    You misspelled "pornography site"

  8. Re:CYMK TIFF is a backwards tradition that must di by shmlco · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... but I rather suspect that CMYK has persisted because it makes people think that they look clever and to get people to hand over cash for something that now shouldn't exist."

    Go look up additive and subtractive color systems and the circumstances under which each is used. Then come back when you have something not unimaginably dumb to contribute to the conversation.

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