call me crazy

I really don't like Photoshop. I've become better friends with Illustrator. It's simpler and not nearly as temperamental. I want to know how to do everything in Illustrator so I can use Photoshop as little as possible.

To be rational, I realize the strengths of Photoshop. If it could do everything that Illustrator could, then we wouldn't have Photoshop. What I'm also realizing slooowly, is that Photoshop is not for every crazy detailed massive sized file where you have to adjust and jump around and add layer after layer after layer until inevitably the massively large files goes corrupt or fails to open or print and you have to do all the minute little pixelated details over again, assuming that the whole computer doesn't freeze and oh MF you haven't saved your work in the last 15 seconds so you really do have to do it all over again!! Yes- reading that sentence is the same feeling I get when I use Photoshop.

Illustrator, on the other hand, is simpler. Sometimes it gets fussy when your not patient enough to understand it's logic, but even then, the file usually doesn't blow.

So. After these projects are turned in, I'm going to take a little break from Photoshop (I have strings attached- or files rather, so I have to keep dealing with it). Hopefully my time apart from Photoshop will help me realize what I need it for. And then, I can use it then- and only then. And for the rest of the time I'll hang out with my new best friend, Illustrator. Hopefully I'll be introduced (and like) others from the Adobe clan.