THodgson84
Junior Member
I work in sales but I am trying to develop as a designer in my spare time with the hope that in a coupla years I'll be able to change career path and get a job as an illustrator/graphic designer.
For that I'm obviously going to need a decent portfolio so I'd like to start putting some stuff together, decent work leads to decent work and so on.
Obviously you've all seen the news about Adobe going 'cloud only' recently. Well, here's my conundrum...
I've been making do with a copy of Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop Elements 7.0 for the 'hobby' bits and bobs I've been doing, but I'd like to get a bit more focussed in an effort to churn out work on a more regular basis to really build my portfolio. Plus a lot of the tutorials I've seen in magazines like Computer Arts all seem to fall flat when you don't have the 'killer feature' of the latest software, which as you can imagine is more than a little bit frustrating.
As it stands I really can't justify (to the wife!) commiting to £46.88p/m for the full Creative Cloud bundle but I'm a bit more comfortable with £17.58p/m for Illustrator only. I have no real interest in web design or video editing and such, I just want to produce illustrations and typographic stuff really.
However, my question is this...
Do I really need Photoshop as well as Illustrator? Obviously then I'm looking at £35.16p/m, which is closer to the full CC bundle price.
I guess the other angle is am I limiting my employability by focusing exclusively on Illustrator? Or doesn't it matter provided I've got a badass portfolio?
Any thoughts? My head hurts...
For that I'm obviously going to need a decent portfolio so I'd like to start putting some stuff together, decent work leads to decent work and so on.
Obviously you've all seen the news about Adobe going 'cloud only' recently. Well, here's my conundrum...
I've been making do with a copy of Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop Elements 7.0 for the 'hobby' bits and bobs I've been doing, but I'd like to get a bit more focussed in an effort to churn out work on a more regular basis to really build my portfolio. Plus a lot of the tutorials I've seen in magazines like Computer Arts all seem to fall flat when you don't have the 'killer feature' of the latest software, which as you can imagine is more than a little bit frustrating.
As it stands I really can't justify (to the wife!) commiting to £46.88p/m for the full Creative Cloud bundle but I'm a bit more comfortable with £17.58p/m for Illustrator only. I have no real interest in web design or video editing and such, I just want to produce illustrations and typographic stuff really.
However, my question is this...
Do I really need Photoshop as well as Illustrator? Obviously then I'm looking at £35.16p/m, which is closer to the full CC bundle price.
I guess the other angle is am I limiting my employability by focusing exclusively on Illustrator? Or doesn't it matter provided I've got a badass portfolio?
Any thoughts? My head hurts...