With friends like Adobe, an artist does not need enemies.

 Back in the days when Macs were powered by Power PC chips I began the journey that would lead me into the field of Graphic Design. Along the way I discovered Adobe software. I was introduced to Adobe Illustrator in college and loved  all of the design, layout, and illustration options that it offered me. From there I spent a majority of my digital design time in the world of Adobe with only short jaunts into the realm of Quark. After collegeI saved money and purchased a copy of illustrator for myself and updated it several times. I may have expanded my skill set to include some 3d modeling, but Illustrator was always there and ready to go.

Time moved forward and things changed. Adobe joined the subscription service movement. I was not keen on the idea, but gave it a try. The early days of Adobe Creative Cloud were rough to say the least.  After growing weary of being bled by the month for a service that would have "authentication errors" I went back to my older copies of Illustrator and was happy. Happiness was fleeting because after a while Adobe made it seemingly impossible to activate my copy of Illustrator CS. Sadly my older versions of Illustrator were growing incompatible to newer computers and operating systems.  I ended up switching over to Affinity Designer and Inkscape and my layout/ design problem was solved. 

Little did I know that I know that Adobe was not done tampering with my workflow. I have worked in 3d for several years and often design my own book cover art. For years I have used a combination of Poser, Vue, and Carrera. This worked well until Adobe shut down Flash. When this happened my copy of Poser 8 lost its ability to let the user navigate through the interface. They had based major parts of their menu system in Flash and Adobe had turned Flash off. After attempting several work arounds I ended up switching to Daz Studio. The newer models and render engine gave me great results, but it threw my workflow into chaos once again. Remember, stay optimistic, be willing to learn, and almost any problem can be tackled.

A is the original art that was based on Daz Studios Victoria 4 in Poser 8.

B is rendered in Daz Studio and use models based on Daz's Genesis models.