anybody use illustrator
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I think photoshop would be easier ... but it's prolly just like a fender vs .gibson thing.
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illistrator is made by the same comp that makes photoshop...Adobe.Steve_Karl said:
So it's more like a Gibson Epiphone thing... :icon_biggrin:
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You should be able to vector any graphic imported into it...smavridis said:
But personally I don't like Adobe, I have PhotoImpact and Corel Draw X4...
(what's that luke? A degree in graphic design?)
Illustrator kicks butt. I've made quite a few nice things in it. It will "vector" anything you want but if the quality is that of raster, and not great, the vectoring process is kinda pointless.
As I wrote this and remembered the word raster (I've been drinking) I remembered the ol' rasterbator.. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ If you have a printer and a fine picture, you can have some fun with that.
Try it out!
In conclusion, Illustrator is a great tool, but slightly more annoying to use than phoboshop. :hello2:
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Illustrator kicks butt. I've made quite a few nice things in it. It will "vector" anything you want but if the quality is that of raster, and not great, the vectoring process is kinda pointless.
As I wrote this and remembered the word raster (I've been drinking) I remembered the ol' rasterbator.. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ If you have a printer and a fine picture, you can have some fun with that.
Try it out!
In conclusion, Illustrator is a great tool, but slightly more annoying to use than phoboshop. :hello2:
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Never have liked any of adobe's programs, they're all to annoying to me. Uleads products are much more user friendly, and you don't need a degree to use them.. :dontknow:Luke said:(what's that luke? A degree in graphic design?)
Illustrator kicks butt. I've made quite a few nice things in it. It will "vector" anything you want but if the quality is that of raster, and not great, the vectoring process is kinda pointless.
As I wrote this and remembered the word raster (I've been drinking) I remembered the ol' rasterbator.. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ If you have a printer and a fine picture, you can have some fun with that.
Try it out!
In conclusion, Illustrator is a great tool, but slightly more annoying to use than phoboshop. :hello2:
To me it's about like the difference in Autocad and Surfcam. Autocad is way to over complicated, so sometimes less is more. Besides it has no NC operation...
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Hey max.. just to enlightmen me.. wtf is the difference between photoshop and imageready?
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I'm not Max, but it is a bitmap editing software for quick editing of web graphics...Volitions Advocate said:
DangerousR6 said:Never have liked any of adobe's programs, they're all to annoying to me. Uleads products are much more user friendly, and you don't need a degree to use them.. :dontknow:Luke said:(what's that luke? A degree in graphic design?)
Illustrator kicks butt. I've made quite a few nice things in it. It will "vector" anything you want but if the quality is that of raster, and not great, the vectoring process is kinda pointless.
As I wrote this and remembered the word raster (I've been drinking) I remembered the ol' rasterbator.. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ If you have a printer and a fine picture, you can have some fun with that.
Try it out!
In conclusion, Illustrator is a great tool, but slightly more annoying to use than phoboshop. :hello2:
To me it's about like the difference in Autocad and Surfcam. Autocad is way to over complicated, so sometimes less is more. Besides it has no NC operation...
i took an autocad class sophomore year. its really easy to use after two hours total of working easy stuff. i LOVE cad.
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I use Image Ready to optimize images for the web and that's the only use I've found for it.
The optimization process looks at the color pallet of the .jpg and determines which colors aren't being used and eliminates them from the pallet, which reduces the file size a great deal in some cases.
I believe it will also make animated .gifs. and it also shares a lot of the same tools as photo shop but I rarely do anything in it other than optimize.
ImageReady is slightly better than its reputation, but while I had it I didn't really use it often. It does do rollovers and such very well once you figure out how. The point is that it's not Photoshop and it isn't meant to be. I tried Illustrator years ago but boy that was tricky stuff...
Okay, don't worry.
I'm here.
Imageready, like those other folks said, is mainly for web optimization and GIF animation. I don't use it
Any decent web designer/developer should be able to use the right formats for designs. PNG is my favorite, and with interlacing, loading is smoother. Unfortunately, previous versions of IE didn't show the color of PNG's right, which killed my designs using them. PNG can also support alpha transparency (think semitransparency), which makes it great for web design. For most design elements, though, I try to use GIF, since it's got a small file type. I also don't normally make designs with millions of colors (I like simple looking).
I'm here.
Imageready, like those other folks said, is mainly for web optimization and GIF animation. I don't use it
Any decent web designer/developer should be able to use the right formats for designs. PNG is my favorite, and with interlacing, loading is smoother. Unfortunately, previous versions of IE didn't show the color of PNG's right, which killed my designs using them. PNG can also support alpha transparency (think semitransparency), which makes it great for web design. For most design elements, though, I try to use GIF, since it's got a small file type. I also don't normally make designs with millions of colors (I like simple looking).
Luke said:(what's that luke? A degree in graphic design?)
Illustrator kicks butt. I've made quite a few nice things in it. It will "vector" anything you want but if the quality is that of raster, and not great, the vectoring process is kinda pointless.
As I wrote this and remembered the word raster (I've been drinking) I remembered the ol' rasterbator.. http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ If you have a printer and a fine picture, you can have some fun with that.
Try it out!
In conclusion, Illustrator is a great tool, but slightly more annoying to use than phoboshop. :hello2:
haha.. I was really drunk when I wrote that.. well done!
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Careful, you'll end up with hairy vectors if rastorbate too much...Max said:
