Morning.

I have been working with design for over 10 years now using only OpenSource Tools. I've worked at a Linux Education Institute where we had to develop courses and marketing (web, printed and for tv); and never had a problem. I also worked for my country's (.ve) and Guatemala's government (again, only OpenSource tools) and right now I'm building my personal business as a photographer (again, editing only with OpenSource).

I have seen people who do fantastic things using Non-Open tools, but I have also seen some terrible mistakes. For me, a professional designer is not about the tool, but more about the eye of the user who can put his/hers ideas on paper/screen.

Have a great day.

2015-05-19 8:17 GMT-04:30 Christopher Wambugu <chris@enmowe.com>:
I disagree with you to some extent. I'd say mostly. Right now I'm doing the JavaME service access point (fancy name for app) for a County B.I. system for one of the counties here in Kenya. The UI is basically built by code, so the images and icons are more important in this case. Inkscape and Corel helped me get done with the design in a little over 3 days into the development period. They'll launch in two weeks. Inkscape gets things done faster. Lesser adjustments to make and all.

On 19 May 2015 13:35, Satyajit Sahoo <satyajit.happy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I use Sketch. Inkscape is still great for icon design, but Sketch beats it in UI design and the export tool.
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> Satyajit Sahoo
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> We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? — The Doctor, Season 5, Episode 13.
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> On 19 May 2015 at 16:04, Christopher Wambugu <chris@enmowe.com> wrote:
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>> I can proficiently do design using the following tools:
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>> CorelDraw (I have a licensed X6)
>> Corel Photo Paint
>> Adobe Illustrator
>> Photoshop
>> Inkscape
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>> Inkscape does a great job and is comparable to CorelDraw. I prefer the two actually.
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>> On 19 May 2015 04:47, Samuel Marques <sammarques55@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 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.
>> >
>> > My Portfolio: http://sammarqs.com
>> >
>> > hi, from Brazil
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