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- From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
- Subject: Re: What software for a graphic artist?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.134618.13931@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Keywords: graphics software
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <1992Nov13.173252.8859@ac.dal.ca> <1992Nov18.040004.19625@Princeton.EDU> <92Nov18.203655.35254@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:46:18 GMT
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- panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov18.040004.19625@Princeton.EDU> jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) writes:
- >>The program I find most indispensible is Adobe Illustrator. If you're
- >>doing any sort of PostScript line art, as opposed to bit-mapped graphics
- >>this is the program to have. Aldus FreeHand is similar, and has a few more
- >>bells and whistles, but I think Illustrator is much more elegant.
- >>It's handling of type is also superior.
- >>
- >>John
-
- >I have both Adobe Illustrator 3.2 and Aldus Freehand 3.1. I find
- >that I use Illustrator more, even though, as described above,
- >Freehand has features not found in Illustrator. However, another
- >program worth checking out would be Letraset's ColorStudio with
- >the Shapes Annex, which supposedly gives you the advantages of a
- >bit-map program (such as Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter) as
- >well as the functions of a vector program (Illustrator, Freehand)
- >in one applications environment. Other programs to keep in mind
- >would be utilities such as JAG (Jaggies Are Gone) and Smoothie,
- >for anti-aliasing on-screen renderings, and Pixar's Typestry,
- >for doing really far-out stuff with type (I just ordered it).
-
- I agree whole-heartedly with the two previous posters on their opinions of
- Illustrator. It is the yardstick with which other vector programs are
- measured. Photoshop is a must for a well equipped studio also ( thoough
- in this case, I have never used any competing packages, so there could
- be others that would substitute ). But lumping Fractal Design Painter
- in with the rest of the bitmap programs is doing it a grave discredit.
- Fractal Design used with a pressure sensitive tablet is capable of
- producing effects in seconds that could take hours with another package.
- At $200 it is one of the best values on the graphic arts market. The
- program is truly amazing, you have to see it to believe it. Mind you
- the Wacomb Tablet can cost over a thousand dollars, but after you exper-
- ience what can be done with it, you will start saving your pennies.
-
- Speaking of pennies, this is just my two.
-
- P.S. I am not affiliated with Fractal Design, this is an unsolicited
- recommendation.
-
- Love, e.
-
-
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- | | Dear Auntie Em, | Eric Brunson
- |o| I hate Kansas. I hate | eric@vistachrome.com
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- | | I'm leaving. |
- | | Dorothy |
- |o| P.S. |
- | | Took the dog. |
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