What's your favourite graphics program?
Here's just a little survey - what's your favourite graphics program, and why?
My no. 1 favourite would be Photoshop, simply because it's so powerful. It can do pretty much anything I want it to do, and even gives me many different ways of doing things. For example with 4-5 different ways to extract an image from a background one of them will be guaranteed to give me a good result for any image I choose.
My second favourite would be Flash, becuase it's so simple on the outside yet powerful on the inside. I love the simplicity of the vector drawing tools, and all the really powerful stuff (ActionScript) is hidden so it doesn't bother me when I don't need it.
No. 3 would be Illustrator - simply because it'll do pretty much everything the above two can't (complex vectors, illustrations, print layouts)
The Webmistress posted this at 14:49 — 4th October 2002.
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Mine is Fireworks, but that's probably just because it's what I've got and have got used to it and find the keyboard shortcuts easy to set up. I keep meaning to try out Photoshop for more arty-farty stuff but never seem to get the time!
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 15:52 — 4th October 2002.
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I'd say
), but not hands-down. I'd have to serve credit to some of the other graphics programs out there...
Photoshop, because it's simply powerful (oh, and all those filtersLike
Paint Shop Pro, for being useful for most low-end job in the same way as Photoshop, but without the same price tag and resource-hogging; andIrfanView, for those quick 2-second jobs that I don't want to wait minutes for to do with PS.I also use
Fireworkssometimes, for when I need to work with PNG format files.Flashwould be my favourite vector graphics program.With that set of programs, I haven't really found the need to explore anything else.
Megan posted this at 16:07 — 4th October 2002.
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I guess I should give a fuller definition of the other programs I've used. PaintShop pro I haven't used regularly since v. 5 but I keep meaning to check out the newer version but I've never really had time. I don't think it has the same high-end capabilities in masking and selections, colour adjustment etc. as photoshop but still great for those of us on a budget. Fireworks I haven't used a whole lot, just because I can't seem to get the hang of it. Ummm.. .what else... I've only ever used Freehand & Director briefly so I can't talk too much about those.
I guess that's it for graphics programs - excluding page layout & web design programs, photo management tools, font management etc...
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taff posted this at 18:32 — 4th October 2002.
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Yay! I get to plug ImageStyler again! Alas poor Imagestyler, we barely knew ye.
I'm still working away with the ImageStyler 1.0/Photoshop 5.0 team. Imagestyler for all my text-based graphics, layouts, collages, etc. and Photoshop for photo editing, etc.
Honourable mention to Illustrator for vector work, usually for the purpose of bringing in graphic designer supplied materials and to Ulead SmartSaver Pro - my image optimizer/slicer/mapper of choice.
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 18:41 — 4th October 2002.
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My #1 is definately Photoshop. Currently working with 6.0 (work) and 7.0 (home). Especially the feature that lets you dock tool windows (ie. History and File Browser in 7.0) is something I really like.
After some thinking I must say that I don't really have number two.
), untill version 4 (man, was I happy when I received the floppy's), but after that I switched to Photoshop 3 and never really got back to vector programs again.
Years ago I played a lot with CorelDraw (what?
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Megan posted this at 18:57 — 4th October 2002.
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LOL! I remember going to a macromedia showcase thingy back in 1998 with a co-worker in Toronto. They were demonstrating ImageStyler there and we thought it was the coolest thing. You should have heard all the oohs and ahs from thh audience. We even talked our bosses into buying it. I'm still sort of surprised that it never caught on more. It was actually quite similar to Fireworks.
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taff posted this at 19:05 — 4th October 2002.
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Being light years behind on my Photoshop versions, doesn't ImageReady pick up some of the slack?
I have Fireworks also but haven't really given it a chance. I don't even want to get into my ineptitude with Flash. I just seem to be more at home in an Adobe window than in a Macromedia one.
I also have Corel Draw sitting on the shelf. Now *there* was a waste of money
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Busy posted this at 21:05 — 4th October 2002.
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Mine are Paint Shop Pro and Iranview
I also have Photoshop6 but preper the two above, wouldn't mind getting the latest Photoshop, but way to expensive for my needs (PSP was $250)
Also use terragen for making 3D landscapes etc, think it's still free, wanted bryce4 but again price tag has to many zeros in it (think about $2500).
I do a lot of photo editing and retouching / restoring with PSP and don't have any problems. One day
whenI win lotto I'll expand my list and try some more of the others.mjames posted this at 23:00 — 4th October 2002.
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She said exactly what I would have said!
Bellcrest posted this at 11:32 — 6th October 2002.
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My fav graphics program is PhotoImpact 7. I am planning on purchasing the new version 8 that has just come out.
I used to be a staunch PSP user and supporter. I used PSP and PS ver 5.5 for some time but now very rarely open either program. PhotoImpact does everything that I need faster and better and the price is right.
Haven't tried Fireworks, but will one of these days. I enjoy learning new prgrams, but found the learning curve for PS pretty steep!
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zollet posted this at 17:38 — 6th October 2002.
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PhotoShop 7 is really amazing. It's easy to use and extremely powerful. Another program I like (although I haven't touched it for a long time) is 3D Studio Max.
jammin posted this at 18:02 — 6th October 2002.
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what do you people think of MGI photosuite?
The Webmistress posted this at 07:27 — 7th October 2002.
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From memory (had it installed way way back) it isn't really so much of a graphics program but a photo editing package. I might be wrong for a current version of it though.
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big bangkok posted this at 21:27 — 7th October 2002.
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Adobe photoshop
necrotic posted this at 19:49 — 13th October 2002.
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Adobe Photoshop. It's the most user friendly and powerfull image application in it's class that I've been able to find. PSP is just to darn confusing for me.
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Mankiy posted this at 20:42 — 13th October 2002.
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lol, PSP is way easier than Adobe Photoshop.........
By a Mile!
Adobe Photoshop has a Long Learning curve..........
I admit though, it is oen of the most powerful image editing tools out there
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Mankiy posted this at 20:43 — 13th October 2002.
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Oh Yeh, and I have PSP 7
althought I am thinking about switching to Adobe Photoshop since it IS betetr than PSP 7 in numorous ways........
necrotic posted this at 21:22 — 13th October 2002.
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I tried PSP 7 for a while but I've used PShop so much it's become something I can do in my sleep. PSP is just too different.
Megan posted this at 01:38 — 15th October 2002.
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I agree - I tend to find PSP a little bit confusing just because I'm so used to Photoshop.
I really don't think the learning curve for PS is really all that steep. The basic stuff is pretty easy to grasp, but it's got so many layers that people of all experience levels can get a lot out of it.
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