Entire months would go by without me even launching one of the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. The price was high, but I felt it was worthwhile for the print work I was doing and to maintain my familiarity with that part of the industry.īy 2020, however, the running club was producing fewer print pieces-everything had moved online-and that $54 per month was starting to grate. And while my abilities with Illustrator are minimal at best (Photoshop completely confounds me), I appreciated being able to use it to collaborate more fluidly with designers and production systems.

My fingers remembered InDesign’s keyboard modifiers and shortcuts from nearly a decade earlier, and I enjoyed setting up proper documents with carefully designed master pages, character and paragraph styles, and more. Acrobat Pro remained essential for Take Control’s workflow through 2017, and in 2016, I started using InDesign and Illustrator to create posters, sign-up sheets, and similar print collateral for the Finger Lakes Runners Club. I got pretty good with InDesign and enjoyed using it.Īfter the Take Control-related books we published with Peachpit around 2007, my reliance on InDesign fell off. I then used InDesign to write and edit at least 14 books over the next few years. I first purchased Adobe InDesign in 2003 to write iPhoto 2: Visual QuickStart Guide for Peachpit Press, switching from QuarkXPress because of the move to Mac OS X. The decision was purely financial-$54 per month works out to nearly $650 per year, which was far too much for the value I derived from InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, and Photoshop, without even considering the other 15 or so Creative Cloud apps that I never installed. I had no particular complaints about the software, nor did I have any troubles with Adobe.

1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blindĬonsider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2Įarlier this year, I stopped subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud, saving myself $54 per month.

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