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Subject: Need Help!

Romeda opened this issue on Jun 09, 2003 · 3 posts
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Romeda ( ) posted Mon, 09 June 2003 at 3:53 PM · edited Mon, 06 January 2025 at 9:08 PM

Hi, I didn't see a forum for Illustrator and I need some info. What is exactly Illustrator? I would like to start creating small graphics for my web page and do some things on the side, like...logos, background designs, photos, (small things, nothing complex)etc. Is Illustrator the program I should use, if not what should I use?

Thanks

retrocity ( ) posted Mon, 09 June 2003 at 9:17 PM

Hello Romeda,
I guess you could say Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop are "brother" and "sister" programs. While Photoshop is a Raster based application (in that, as a paint type program it deals with pixels), Illustrator is a Vector based application and uses coordinates and such to define the image.

Illustrator is more than sufficient to produce the artwork you need as stated, BUT if price is a concern, you may want to look at other alternatives. There are programs like:

Macromedia Freehand (which is just as powerful as Illustrator)

Macromedia Firework (which is perfect for web work and log design)

Corel Draw Graphics Suite (sorry i have no experience with this, but i'm sure others have...)

Xara X (again, i have no experience with this other than the demo...)

Creature House EXPRESSION3 (there are a number of users in the 2D forum that use this app and swear by it!)

For more indepth and rowdy opinions stop by the VECTOR forum a post the question (or link back to this...), i'm sure they'll have a thing or two to say...

:)
retrocity

Romeda ( ) posted Tue, 10 June 2003 at 4:23 PM

Thanks for your help! :)

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