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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Froli on August 20, 2006, 12:14:03 am

Title: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Froli on August 20, 2006, 12:14:03 am
Is it okay to ask about this? if not..i apologize in advance and close this.

To those who has experience in using them, which is handy/easy to use or has better tools for vector graphics? Are there also any other programs that are better than them?
In any case this might come off topic, I just want to expand my knowledge and have no place to go and ask :(


Thanks in advance :D

Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Silver on August 20, 2006, 07:58:59 am
I had a computer teacher who always was interested in doing logo and designs all in vectors!
he says that macromedia freehand and Corel draw are the best he ever tried.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Feron on August 20, 2006, 09:24:38 am
macromedia fireworks is pretty good.  Corel draw is also pretty good - but i find it hard to use.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Radioactivity on August 20, 2006, 04:27:40 pm
I prefer Adobe Illustrator above all vector illustration software,
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: ptoing on August 21, 2006, 12:47:23 pm
Here's another vote for illustrator. Never tried Freehand tho. But imo Coral draw is ass.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Gil on August 21, 2006, 12:53:29 pm
Go for Illustrator, Freehand will no longer be made, so in a year or so, you're working with old software.

I don't know about Corel Draw, never used it.

And don't use Fireworks, that's not even a vector program Feron
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Indigo on August 21, 2006, 03:00:58 pm
Illustrator - whenever you are put up between a decision of an adobe product and something else, simply choose adobe - they rule the world.  And with the merger of Adobe and Macromedia, theres no question about it anymore.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: ptoing on August 21, 2006, 03:33:17 pm
hehe indeed, i am just waiting for autodesk and adobe to merge :D
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Feron on August 21, 2006, 03:59:09 pm
Quote from: Gil link=topic=1804.msg21733#msg21733 date=1156164809

And don't use Fireworks, that's not even a vector program Feron
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sorry, i meant freehand.  But as thats being discontinued i'd chose something else.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Froli on August 22, 2006, 02:07:50 pm
Thank you guys, this helps a lot. I'll devote my time with illustrator and photoshop then
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: blubber on September 27, 2006, 02:56:06 pm
Freehand - because everything is math
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Keops on September 27, 2006, 04:43:07 pm
I used to work with Freehand, then I tried Illustrator and while its true that the interface is similar to the one in all Adobe products (a plus for Photoshop users) I have to give my vote to CorelDRAW. Ever since I began working in my current workplace, where the main application we use is Corel I've become quite used to it's interface and to me it has the easiest to use keyboard shortcuts and everything is quite intuitive, didn't take long to learn and now, well, what can I say, I'm a Corel advocate.

For raster work, Photoshop is still king anyway, but I find Illustrator unnecesarily complex and counterintuitive.

This is just my opinion heh, as some people have pointed I suggest you try them all and find which one suits you better.

Just don't use sodipodi :P (Just kidding). Anyone ever tried any open source vector illustration apps? I believe there is one called Inkscape or something like that, never tried it though.

See you!
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Dogmeat on September 30, 2006, 12:27:45 am
I used to design all the billboards in phoenix AZ.

We used Corel Draw, Illustrator and Quark on the mac.

Corel is clunky and slow and is your lower priced desktop publishing software.

Quark is a step above Corel, but is very hard to get used to using and has a learning curve.

Illustrator is definitely #1 on my list, I don't know if I have a bias since I've always used adobe products but it has the least confusing interface, smooth, solid, quick, integrates with anything else. Also costs the most.

If you're starting off with desktop publishing, definitely start with Corel since it's cheap.

If money and time don't matter to you, go buy Illustrator and do what you need to do to learn it.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Ai on September 30, 2006, 04:23:50 am
Inkscape

It's good. It has the easiest to use interface of all the vector drawing apps I've used
(which are: Inkscape, TGIF, XFIG,  Sodipodi, ranked best to worst). It has a comprehensive and accessible feature set. It supports Adobe Illustrator format if you need it; Its native format is a superset of SVG.
The only thing that I know it doesn't do yet is animation. The other possible issue is that with extremely complex graphics, it slows down a lot (I assume that hardly anyone but me would be generating graphics of such complexity, though.)
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Takai Soyokaze on September 30, 2006, 02:01:43 pm
Freehand is awesome... but I guesses its dying, then use Inkscape, it's like GIMP for vector art.

I can't stand everyone ragging on GIMP though, most of the stuff people complain about can be fixed.
Title: Re: Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw?
Post by: Ai on September 30, 2006, 10:54:33 pm
Takai Soyokaze:

Gimp is fine. Especially since version 2.3.8, when it clipboard brush, clipboard pattern, and actions to change to next/previous palette color or indexed colormap color were added. This last feature was implemented by me. Clipboard pattern is really helpful for dithering, and clipboard brush is useful for the same things as it is in DPaint. Personally I find working with the ink tool on an indexed image is very useful for pixelling, oekaki and CG all. The Colormap Rearrange plugin, which was added in the 2.3.x series, is also useful for indexed work when your palette is somewhat big (32 or more colors.)