[Design-team] Professional Graphic designer?

[Máirín Duffy]

On 05/18/2015 09:47 PM, Samuel Marques wrote:
> You can be a professional graphic designer using the open source tools?
> without using Adobe products?
> because in college only teach it, just gave an idea of what is the free
> design, but the focus is more on Adobe software such as Photoshop,
> Illustrator and InDesign.
>
> I particularly tried to learn to use the gimp, scribus and inkscape and
> the only one that pleased me doi the sribus to replace InDesign.
>
> So I wonder if you can get success, being free, since in my opinion the
> tools lose some of the other software.

There's quite a few of us who use the FLOSS tools without issue. The 
main challenge is if you have to use spot colors; it's possible but a 
little hacky. I find Inkscape and Gimp to be more feature-rich than 
their proprietary cousins.

~m