[chanc3e]

This is absolutely my experience of Adobe software too. Terribly engineered with priorities weighted for the board rather than users.

I’ve been a designer for +20 years and sans-Adobe for five, I absolutely recommend any young designers to avoid the Adobe workflow. You don’t need it.

Photoshop = Pixelmator (Kitura is also very good) Illustrator/Indesign = Affinity Designer

Highly precise vectors I draw in Glyphs/Fontlab.

[jer0me]

Just to add to this list:

Gravit Designer is quite good for small vector projects, though it is a subscription.

Adobe Lightroom (the new one) and possibly more can be installed from the App Store without all the Creative Cloud bloat.

[chanc3e]

Gravit is new on me. I'm bias against web apps, but it's very cool a someone is playing in that space. Thanks!

It's beautiful to see that inside a decade we've gone from having a monoculture of Illustrator as the sole vector app (post freehand) to having multiple very capable competitors on all platforms.