Which Graphics Software Do You Use ?

paloma · April 20th, 2009, 01:58 AM

i use photoshop, illustrator & indesign cs3. the suite is excellent, but i wish i knew dreamweaver & flash better.

Worn Id · May 12th, 2009, 11:15 AM

I use Corel Draw and some Photo Shop.

Laurie

jmimageworks · June 15th, 2009, 02:52 PM

I thought id chime in I use, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, and a few others.

directioneast · June 15th, 2009, 11:23 PM

I use corel draw. Some things just make so much more sense with it. I also use CS3 for both Mac and PC, they are good programs too, but Corel just seems to fit me better, I am so much faster with it, no matter how much I use ai, Corel is just quicker. Corel paved the way for alot of things but unfortunately they are not very common anymore. I feel they need a better aesthetics to their marketing. I don't like how cheezy looking the new versions are. But they are still very powerful. Overall it is the end user, anything can be accomplished with any program. I have forced myself to learn other programs because owning a print shop kind of makes you do that. It is nice to see other perspectives, even though they may not be your preference.

Living tees · July 7th, 2009, 01:11 PM

what about freehand. It's almost all we use. Am I missing something.

Living tees · July 8th, 2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by JuBilee

We use Freehand on a Mac. I remember the Aldus Freehand 2.0 days and have worked my way up to Freehand MX. I have Illustrator CS on my Pc I use for embroidery but Freehand is soooo much easier to use. We also have Photoshop CS, Streamline, and Imagaro Z which works alot like Streamline. I think we have Freehand 9 on one of the Macs to help with artwork conversion. It was more of a problem when we first went to MX because MX wouldn't convert some of the old 3.1 and 5.0 files I had.

One program we use that I would love to find a newer version of is Letraset's Letra Studio. It is a ton easier to use than MX's envelope tool. I know Letraset is out of business, but if someone out there knows of another program I could use to replace it I would love to know.

That is so cool to finally hear of someone else in the graphics field who likes to use
Freehand. I have used Freehand right from the beginning and have become pretty familiar
with it, but I'm still learning. Most of the time we output artwork
pretty quick around here and for the most part it is very simple stuff, so I don't get a
chance to use different tools. I have Freehand MX, Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS3 - which I really don't use unless I do shirts with a picture. Photoshop is foreign to me though
just because I don't use it enough- time here is limited so I use what I know.
What source of clipart do you use? I have Art Explosion 250,000 which is pretty old. I need
some new sources. Luckily my husband draws really well, but that takes too much
time.

tompainesbones · July 8th, 2009, 06:23 PM

I too learnt on Freehand and loved it, but it lost out to the big boys. It does things that you still can't in AI or Corel.