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Or those students will need to dip a little deeper into their student loans in order to fund an Adobe habit.

Is this habit or addiction? How do you tell the difference? Most are using tools without thought. They know the tool but not the principle of the tool. When the tool becomes the target, regardless of cost, then you can establish an argument for the distinction between habit and addiction. If the principle is the target, alternative ways may be used. How do you tell an addict that she is addicted? How do you get an addict to stop their addiction. Good questions until you realize who profits from that addiction.

that can be used to achieve what the students are learning ?

If there are alternatives then should the universities not be teaching general principles which is illustrated by using Adobe & other products ?

If they just teach Adobe products then they are delivering training, not education. The result will be graduates who can only work if they have Adobe products - this is not good. Adobe will achieve ever greater lock-in and the competition wither.

If universities teach one product because it is easier - then they are being lazy.

" that can be used to achieve what the students are learning ? "

I think it's one of these things that's mandated by industry. If you leave education to go in to a job, they're all using Adobe. So if you go in and say you learnt everything you know on GIMP, you won't get the job.

Creative industries are lazy in this respect. They financially hurt themselves to kit themselves out in Mac's with Adobe because they either don't know any better, they don't want to do anything else, and most of the tutorials on the internet are really related to Adobe products.

When they become cynical and get to the point of do they feed themselves that week or pay Adobe for a license, they'll learn that there are other tools available and that it isn't the tool that produces the work. It's the workman.

FYI, I do film photography and I use a combination of darktable and GIMP for my photos. Adobe Photoshop offers absolutely nothing of value in this respect.

Gimp =/= Photoshop... Hell Gimp =/= even Paintshop. So imagine my surprise when no one would hire you. I mean Darktable is a SOLID alternative to Adobes' Lightroom. BUT, ITS NOT LIGHTROOMNOW IS IT?!

Serif's Affinity suite is an affordable non-subscription alternative to Photoshop. It offers most of the functionality you get out of Photoshop but you then don't have the extensive range of add-ons Photoshop gives you access to and there are a few more niche features not in Affinity Photo

And, its really only of intrest to the Home Gamer. To cheap to shell out a mesly 120$(USD), a year for the Lightroom & Photoshop Plan. Ok your a Home-Gamer, and you just need a goof? Then Affinity will do you well. But, to confuse that crap with Adobes' stuff. Is like comparing BeOS* with Windows X.

*About the only most usless non-M$ OS I could think of.. Yes you could use it... BUT WHY!?

Wait, there are other Products which are not fruity-based (I'm looking at you Final Cut Pro), I'm personally at a loss for legitimate replacements for both Illustrator, and the venerable Photoshoop. Perhaps JASC Paintshop Pro spings to ones mind. But, its been more than donkies since I've head a peep from that lot.

As good as the "Alternatives" to the Home-gamer. If your looking to go "Pro" then Adobe is the only league worth playing in. And, the FOSS alerrnitves? Well thats for the cheapskate who cant shell out a measly 50$ for Affinity Photo / Designer.

Again I'm not saying they suck. Just that it isnt even close to the industy standard a.k.a. Adobe.

Industry standard means "> 50% are using this". This can change. Let's make it happen.

I'm sure Willam H. Gates the Third... Is still expecting someone to just come along and, eat Windows, and by that proxy Office's lunch. and, that was what getting on (or indeed well over) 20 years old now. If Windows H8, and Windows X haven't killed them yet. I guess nothing much will.

Again Home Gamers are cool, and all and, its great that Sirf are looking after them. But, I would not be doing up my Victorias' Secrets Shots with it. I think the word I've bee searching for the whole time was "scale", and well as with most things this "Scale" seems to be on a spectrum.

Don't forget that a big use of Adobe in universities isn't necessarily its graphics packages, but Acrobat, to export or collate multiple documents together as PDFs.

You know, the sort of thing that could easily be done with LibreOffice (saving lots of money on unnecessary licences for certain other software as well, if some people weren't so stuck to the "but we've always done it this way" mindset).

There's also a lot of unnecessary use of Adobe products simply for occasional ad hoc creation of posters and the like for in-house use (because it's "free" to the end users, although the cost has to come out of some departmental budget), which, again, could equally be easily done with Scribus, Inkscape, etc. The number of people who "need" this so-called "professional" software to put together prospectuses and the like is very small in comparison.

There may be a case for licensing (because you sure as hell don't own them any more) Adobe products for actual art and design students, but, if each university and college were instead to also donate £1/student (even 10p/student) to the equivalent open source projects, just think what what a development boost that would be, ultimately benefiting not only themselves, but all of humanity.

Also its a small but, nontheless fun fact, that Adobe does cover more than just Lightroom, Photoshoop, and Acrobat. I'd imagine plenty of People on Youtube bow to Adobe every month, for Premeire as well. Well the ones who obvisly can not afford a Macbook that is... (See my crack on final Cut Pro).

Again nobody cares Microsoft hit the market first, and hit it hard with Office, and the rest is history. You can either be in the Clque like everyone else. Or, you can be that guy whos document fails to load properly. Because Microsoft aint got time to support some hippy neckbeard format. When they would just rather you used their own product(s) instead.

to the machines that they aren't able to use "in person"?

Just say "no" kids.

... to Adobe's Creative Accounting.

Affinity Photo awaits. The 50% offer is still running.

Search the YouTube for a chap called "AvE" He does B oring O ld Tool R eviews. And, undrerstand why "Professionals" laugh at Home-Gamer Tools. Affinity may well be a player. But, its got another 50+ years to catch up to the big dog(s).

I wouldn't write Affinity off just yet. It took a lot less than 50+ years for the new upstart Adobe InDesign to replace Quark Xpress as the de facto standard page layout tool.

Forgetting that Adobe are the preverbial 2 TON White Elephant in the room. Imagine my surprise that Quak Xpress died in a not so dissimular way as Kodak had.

You mean like the do in Seattle, or Portland? If so I agree! like a someone how depends on a fuctioning industy seeting bit of software to live off off, much less run a whole company. will let some zoomer dictate to me to move shop to Gimp & Darktable. Lets just be practical for a moment. and agree that there is no Pepsi / AMD to Adobes' Coke / Intel.

Not going to say the world wouldn't be a better place if it had.... But, thats the world we live in.

Just a quick thanks to Autodesk who (in contrast to Adobe) are really good to users in education. I've had free Maya and Arnold licences from them when I needed them (for research purposes, not commercial ones). Good on them!

"while on-campus activities depend on government guidance, which is wholly understandable."

Surely you jest?....

Adobe Ate My Homework.