Re: [libreoffice-design] New web banners. Feedback?

Hi Aleksandar, all,


On 11.09.30 04:28, Aleksandar wrote:
> Hi All,
> I want to thank you all for your support. I read all your emails and this
> was great experience so far.
> Tobias, I understand your point but please note one thing, my time is (and
> will probably be this year)
> very limited so I don't have time to create graphic in gimp/inkscape from
> start.
> I used gimp before and would like to use it again and I know about inkscape,
> it's always great to learn
> something new,new tool,new language etc. and it's not problem to work with
> these tools but as I said
> I am currently very busy and time doesn't allow me to do all that things.
> My idea was to inspire people to create better graphic, to motivate them.

Aleksandar, don't apologise.

You are a Designer, one of the best we now have. What you use is YOUR 
choice alone, you should feel comfortable with it, you should feel happy 
when you make things using it. What it IS doesn't matter.

I probably should have left this thread alone, but it's disappointing to 
know that some of our members have this mindset.
What we /create/ (graphics, in this case) is our /contribution/ to the 
project. NOT the software we create them with.

I've created EVERYTHING I'VE CONTRIBUTED in Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator 
and InDesign. It is what I use at work every day. It is what I learnt to 
Design in. It is as much a reason why I Design the way I do as my style 
or technique. If you are considering purging this project of anything 
not-open-source then start with everyone using a Windows or Mac. Anyone 
using Gmail to read this mailing list. Anyone who has submitted a PDF to 
our wiki. Anyone who did so using Safari or Internet Explorer. Anyone 
who used Picasa or dropbox to host their mock-ups.

I love PhotoShop more than ANY OTHER SOFTWARE on the planet. If you 
asked any of my Design colleagues, they'd say the same. If you told them 
they could not join LibreOffice until they started using Inkscape, they 
would create stunning templates for Microsoft Office in PhotoShop 
instead. And they are good people. If you forced me to choose between 
them, it would be an easy choice. Like a musician asked to part with his 
favourite guitar to play in an exclusionist band.

Have you ever considered that maybe some of the Developers are using 
proprietary IDE's? If that is how they work best, who are we to judge 
them? They still submit the 100% pure open code that makes the software 
we support. Get a grip people! Do you judge a presenter on the wisdom of 
his words? or the brand of his microphone?

-Nik

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