albertkinng Posted November 9, 2022 Posted November 9, 2022 (edited) On 11/29/2021 at 10:29 AM, RobKlein said: I have clients who not only need artwork but in the end of the project they require the AI files as this is the industry standard I've been working for big companies for more than 20+ years. Industry standard is something you can't avoid. I love to do Audio Production on Logic Pro, but the industry demands Avid Protools. I feel at home working with Affinity Suite, but the industry asks for Adobe CC documents. My short advice is one you won't like at all. Buy Adobe CC and please your costumers, I'm not being arrogant, just honest. There is no way to fake it, if they need Adobe files, send them adobe files. That's why I have three Macs, one from 2012 with Adobe CS6 stuck in time running macOS Yosemite with no internet synced with my 2021 Mac M1 on my network, so I can deliver their "Adobe files" when they need them. My point of view about this is a commonly redundant on every other forum about design on the web, don't ask a company to clone another because you can't or don't want to pay for the one you really need. Embrace the change. Eight years ago I started my business as a freelancer and I made a drastic decision of not using Adobe software anymore. It was a challenge but with time everything became the new normal and little helpers like Photopea website and renaming a PDF with .ai extension solve most of the cases. Little by little I've been teaching my clients and print shop partners on Affinity and all many of them are happy with the "Affinity files" as well. The only ones that demands Adobe are the marketing agencies I work with, and none of them are designers. Basically all of them are using computers with Adobe CC on them and that's what they know to use. My design tools are Affinity V2 Suite, Sketch, Hype4, Rapidweaver and Nova Editor, They are subscription-free, and the results are incredibly good. I'm planning to make another drastic change in 2023 starting in January, and it will be working with full projects using only an iPad Pro M2. I've been using my iPad Pro more than ever, and I think it can be my only machine for design. In the meantime, I'm still in my office, enjoying this great chapter of Affinity V2! Bundles with one time payment Adobe CS pre-installed: 1. iMac 2012 Design Bundle 2. Macbook 2009 Design Bundle Edited November 11, 2022 by albertkinng Grammar errors being fixed loukash 1 Quote Ask for my services: albertkinng.com
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