. . . . I just picked up Adobe Creative Suite 4. And by “picked up” I mean “paid an extortionate amount for, even with the $1200 educational discount.”
Yeah, they’re charging enough for it that they can afford to knock over a thousand bucks off the price tag for students. And yeah, I went and bought it. Why? Well, mostly because InDesign and Photoshop are industry standards. And yes, I know and love the GIMP, and I’ve heard good things about Scribus, but I’m just learning how to use those tools right now, and if all goes well I’ll get a job after graduation with a publishing place that has computers of its own. Those computers will more than likely be loaded with Adobe products, so it behooves me to be pretty familiar with them, and I’ll learn how to use them more easily if I’m not more familiar with how another program works.
Another selling point for me was the presence of Dreamweaver, which my sister the web designer swears by. So the Design Premium suite came with some other stuff that seemed useful to me.
I haven’t had much of a chance to test drive everything yet, and in any case I’m at best a novice user, so I wouldn’t check back frequently for insightful product reviews or anything (actually, check back frequently for whatever you want), but I’ll probably have something to say about my impressions of CS4 in the coming weeks.
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