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CC2015 is so bad I bought a copy of Sketch.
over 8 years ago from Cristian Moisei, http://meet-cristian.com
John P, over 8 years ago
Adobe doesn't give a crap about you, the designer. Some employees at this very large corporation might care, but the company doesn't.
Sums it up completely, we begged them not to kill Freehand or to at least open source it… They couldn't care less.
We begged them not to kill Fireworks, they couldn't care less seemed more just annoyed that we had the audacity not to be a good little CC user and stick with Photoshop to make their dev budget easier.
The management is corrupt and creatively talentless. They seem a bunch born out of the Acrobat part of the company and only really endure the creative software side because it brings in money.
Call me when an actual fucking artist who understands creative work and CARES about creative work is in charge of your awful diseased husk of a company. Until that day happens you'll never EVER see another dollar of mine.
Occasionally I have to use Photoshop to grab assets from a client's PSD file, and it always reminds me why I stopped using Photoshop a long time ago. Simple actions are unusually difficult to perform, heavily layered files slow my computer to a crawl, and the overall interface is a nightmare. Why anyone voluntarily uses Photoshop at this point is beyond me.
I started using Sketch a year ago and switched over completely as my daily graphic design software about 6 months ago and couldn't be happier. As a web/mobile designer, it has everything I need, and it's designed to do what I need it to do quickly and easily. Before Sketch, I was using Fireworks, a product Adobe saw fit to acquire from Macromedia years ago and then slowly kill off, but not before charging customers for minor updates over the course of 3 or 4 years.
Adobe doesn't give a crap about you, the designer. Some employees at this very large corporation might care, but the company doesn't. It's just the nature of the beast. And as long as Photoshop is the Swiss army knife of design software, it's going to be the decent at a lot of things but good at none.
That said, if you like Photoshop, by all means go ahead and buy into the latest software updates. But don't be surprised if other people on your design/development team eventually start resenting you for sending them a PSD rather than a Sketch file or an EPS that can be imported into Sketch.