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. 1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferencesĬonsider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2Įarlier this year, I stopped subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud, saving myself $54 per month.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.

#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.

#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.

#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.

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