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Story: Roll your own creative suite

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Posted by: putt1ck (Thursday 3 May 2007, 8:54 AM)

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When does a feature become essential?

Or an app a standard? Way back in the early to mid 90s, creative types swore blind that it had to be Apple, then a couple of years later as Windows PCs became widely accepted in the sector, the insistence was for the Corel suite, with Quark.

Now it appears to be Adobe. So, which features in CS3 that were not in CS2 are professionally essential? How did professional users of CS2 get anything done without those features? CS1? Those Mac creatives of 10-15 years ago?

I'd be interested in the answer to this question:

what are the missing features of the open source software described in the article that would prevent a professional graphic artist from being productive? When were these features introduced in the proprietary world? When did they become commonplace? When did these features become essential?

Just interested...

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