What Program?

[biggiebor]

What Corel!? Illustrator from day one!

[WCBusch]

Illustrator as the primary, but PhotoShop for photo editing prior to dropping anything into Illustrator. You can make some pretty decent stuff in PowerPoint and then copy it over to Illustrator as well, but that is pretty rare. I don't know about Illustrator, but you can get Gimp which is an open source version of PhotoShop, if that helps anyone.

[adamtuh]

mostly i used illustrator, i've try inkscape before but it's quite confusing, you can use a lot of powerful tools within illustrator.

[imar183]

Corel

[Ryan Young]

do other people not use other programs like 'sketchup'? although not vector based you can generate some really quick and easy shapes/ideas in order to investigate your design more quickly before designing final image in illustrator.

[Chung Dha]

Sketchup is not a program to make logo with it is a program to make 3d or architectural designs but not logo's.

[Rsdesigns]

I would have to say illustrator, also get Cs4 version the gradient new feature is great to detail things.
No longer do you have to fight make a gradient to make it perfect.
Now you can adjust while still selecting the object, and moving the gradient or adding colors see.

Learn it and it will become your best friend in designing.

[shibin.b]

i think illustrator is the best...but as the inkscape is an open source software its better for those who cant afford AI

[Rsdesigns]

Go for the 30 day trail get use to it, and if you go to college or school you can get creative suite cs4 for around 900 dollars?

A fun program and free is google sketch up, it mostly made for 3D though

Google SketchUp

You like photohop use, Gimp thats free and

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Try Cs5 for 60 days ?

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[kubicheck]

Corel habit

[monster96]

i think software is just a tools, the best thing is your idea..so whatever program used, shake your brain first...CMIW

[monster96]

BTW i'm using Corel Draw...

[guyshifty1979]

First off, Life as an artist is SO much better when you work with a grafx tablet. Invest in one...you'll love it...I have the intuos4 by wacom....there are better but I love it.

If your not working off a scanned image Autodesk Sketch Pro is a GREAT program because it is a relatively simple raster based prog w/ all the useful tools...pencil,pen,felt market, paintbrush...no effects, no vector....I use it to sketch out my pictures then copy them to Adobe Illustrator where Live trace is a cinch and usually adds a bit of stylization to my original sketch. You can then throw that image back into Sketch Pro on a different layer and continue.

For 3d stuff, 3d studio Max...for the modeling and rendering...Adobe Photoshop for texture creation...beautiful match

[Arafa]

we ara maka a chat about software in other page and i teel inkscape and gimp are one solution or use macromedia mx i think is like free now and you have free hand flas dreamweaver and more, .. but i end my trial of cs5 and is great... i like corel too .. but i think is good know free ware

[MParts]

Sorry, I will be a bit off topic, bet can anybody tell me here or send a message how to export as cmyk in Inkscape? I something heard that it is possible using terminal ir linuxdesktop, but do it have any easier way of doing this?

[swoop]

i work with paint shop pro X2,love the program

[Brennig Hughes]

I'm guessing it has to be Illustrator now, with most companies, collages and universities using it, I think your best chance is to learn Illustrator, and learn it well.

[sepolerdna]

In my opinion, Adobe Illustrator is the best program! I now upgraded for CS5, it has some new features that can really help and i love it!
So I recommend Adobe Illustrator CS4 or higher :P

[Tasatmanlar]

i was a huge fan of corel but illustrator is awesome, i prefer in adobe's pool