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metalfun
05-13-2004, 12:43 PM
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hello,
I've been making art with Microsaoft painthttp://www.graphicdesignforum.com/emoticons/freaked.gif, and it's time for me to get a 'good' program. Which do you prefer for the under $350 price range?
Iwas thinking about Adobe Illustrator, but can it do very detailed graphics? I don't really know of any other programs, so please give suggestions maybe with some pros and cons of each program.
Thanks
D-Zine
05-13-2004, 04:42 PM
MS Paint?? Say it isn't so Metalfun! ;o) Welcome to the GDF!
You can do very detailed work with Illustrator and its a great program. If you want something that you can scale easily that doesn't pixelate it or Corel Draw is the way to go. I am sure others on here will post more to help you out as the day goes by. :o)
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DeleteYourself
05-13-2004, 04:55 PM
It really depends on what you want to do. Adobe Photoshop, is probably the most similar program to MS Paint terms of they way it works (painting using brushes and whatnot), but it does about a Gagillion MORE things, about a Gagillion times BETTER. You can do VERY detailed work with illustrator, but it functions in a much different way. See the post on Vector vs. Raster images. Those are the 2 most common, I would say, but there's lots more out there.
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defjoe
05-13-2004, 05:37 PM
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3howards
05-13-2004, 05:57 PM
what?
D-Zine
05-13-2004, 06:34 PM
ROFLMFAO @ Joe!
Bwaahhhha hahhahaha ;o)
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Go with the Coral Suite at least you'll get proffesional level work out of it. The stuff we use is out of your price range.
We don't do this for hobbie so the software we use is highly priced but if you really want just get the Adobe CS Suite. You'll get everthing you could ever want. Granted it might take a few years to learn how to use it all.
DeleteYourself
05-14-2004, 04:41 PM
Personally, I do all my design in binary code, then I use a converter to turn into an image.
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