There's also a significant chunk of "I need to be able to open the back catalogue of customer artwork without worrying about whether something's shifted slightly."
Import filters for opening legacy formats in newer software can be notoriously bad in that regard.
No, I completely disagree. The guy from that anecdote, he's a vice president of one of the largest publishers in America. Nobody's gonna say no to him. And most designers I know are independents.
Do you know the restaurant industry term mis en place? It's this practice of laying out your tools at the beginning of your work shift, so you can grab the knife or the salt or the mixing bowl without even looking. Disrupting a chef's mis en place is an great way to get stabbed.
An even modestly talented graphic designer doesn't look at their keyboard or desktop at all while they're working, they exhibit fantastic amounts of muscle memory while navigating their various screens and palettes.
They also suffer from an unfortunate lack of neural plasticity. There is no room in their day or desire for picking up new techniques, they're way more interested in the ideas they're absorbed with.
> They also suffer from an unfortunate lack of neural plasticity. There is no room in their day or desire for picking up new techniques, they're way more interested in the ideas they're absorbed with.
Don't confuse "lack of neural plasticity" with lack of tolerance for tech industry's bullshit. They most likely have a strong case to make that those updates are unnecessary, and likely making a perfectly fine workflow worse. Computers, in general, have been getting increasingly less ergonomic and less functional over time, and the decrease in ergonomics affects even the most specialized software aimed at professionals.
The whole "Adobe CC" thing is also tech industry bullshit, and it is far beyond many designers to even take modest steps to update their skillset.
I sometimes work with one graphic designer who delivers web design in PDFs built in Adobe InDesign and expects everything to be pixel-perfect. It's madness.
I think neural plasticity is better allocated to the niche specific ideas they're working with than to re-learn the UX/UI some Product Manager looking for a bonus or raise or whatever, thought a good idea.
I've had to disable the new bubbles download from chrome in so many places already, even my fucking dentist couldn't produce a recipe because they couldn't find the new UI.
professionals like their tools to be reliable and not at the whims of capital greedy corps.
I have a friend who makes automotive decals, and he got a new (to him) large format Epson printer last year. The seller included a circa 2014 Mac Mini which has all the software installed and setup for the printer, as apparently it's painful to setup and doesn't work well with Windows.
And the friend uses CorelDRAW for making designs. When he first told me I didn't believe him that it is still around :D
No, on actual paper one is darker and more saturated than the other. Unlike RGB, CMYK is subtractive, so “all of everything” gives you black, not white.
Digitally these should be equivalent. Physically, I'd assume it's just as likely that adding CMY pigments would dilute the K and make it less purely black - but, per link you shared, it seems it's the opposite, and I didn't even realize this is an actual technique. Thanks for posting!
There is vanishingly little value in deviating from a known-good workflow until you have a good reason to.