PS or AI for web design?
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- NewElpaso0
i mean - if you were to design stuff for the dashboard on a mac - is it better to use PS or illy - or - does it even matter?
what tehnology does it use? and what software lends itself better to it?
- madirish0
Illustrator, WITHOUT question.
This has come up time and time again, but given the tools at hand today and the way by which artwork moves from medium to medium, if you are not creating things at the source as vector artwork, you are really being a fool. Seriously no offense to anyone obsessed with Photoshop, but it is a band-aid tool for designing anything pertaining to a layout..... which the web is.
That said, i love photoshop for doing what it excels at; editing bitmap artwork, photos. That is where it ends. It is *atrocious* at working with for varying web design. It only has become any sort of standard for 'web designers' to use as the primary tool, from years and years of instruction where it was the only application taught and the tools it contains were usable as a web design tool.... but it was never intended as such and has subsequently been band-aided to meet this growing population who consider it as such.
Again, my opinion only.
- jameskeane0
Illustrator ownz yer bonez.
- madirish0
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- poomoo0
Fireworks. It is the daddy.
- Kiko0
If your final design is going to be bitmap them why create it with a vector program? Especially one with less
- utopian0
Paintshop Pro and Microsoft Excel, "more gooder" than PS or AI, hands down.
- madirish0
because it can be exported to bitmap in one click..... it can NOT go the other way and maintain 100% accuracy. And, 9 times out of 10 it needs to, IME.
- bort0
I hear Quark is making big steps forward on the web development front.
- jamble0
Fireworks.
Occasionally photoshop.
- joqui0
weird question...
- ovsm0
i was a diehard photoshop user, until my friend showed me fireworks. i completely rejected it at first. then little by little i migrated over to fireworks. everyone makes fun of it, but when you learn what it can do, it is the best program around.
anyone who says it is not a viable option hasn't explored the program enough.
one of the best features is the direct export to flash(swf). it's tight.
- OBBTKN0
Web design: Fireworks, and a little PS (for photo retouching or the other things FW is not doing well...)
I´m not pro-Illustrator (CS3 is sloooooow on my machines), i´m still using Freehand.
- monoboy0
I say use what you are comfortable and proficient with. I'm an Illy fan but had to switch to PS when I joined my current team. Took a while to learn, but glad I did. Use it happily now. Illy is still by far the quickest tool for the job imo. It's a design and layout tool. PS is a bitmap based imaging tool. Yin vs Yang.
- Is a website not typically composed of bitmap based images?thismanslife
- Yes, but don't you have to design it first?monoboy
- monoboy has a pointMeeklo
- RIZ0
Great thread by the way!
- WeLoveNoise0
microsoft paint
- no wonder your site is not up. lol.akrokdesign
- yeh it is mate
- try againWeLoveNoise - hahapeterorpete
- kushman0
used to use ps but find illustrator far better for grid work. Plus it's easier to much around with composition once this are on the the page.
- ...?thismanslife
- (You can fuck around with stuff easier)creative-
- (Thanks)thismanslife
- selfproclaim0
Both programs have their place in web design but why has everyone over looked Photoshop having vector objects? It has the visual precision of raster graphics with more thorough use of layer styles and blend modes while still retaining the control and adjustment of Illustrator vectors.
Almost every object I design in Photoshop is now vector just for the fact I can tweak and scale (and not lose clarity/sharpness) as go along without having to touch the damn marquee tool, ever.
- geralddean0
i gotta go with illustrator. I thought photoshop was the defacto standard but once you start doing the same things in Illy it just appears to be way better. and as stated in another comment, you can go to bitmap in a click.
just import your bitmaps into your comp and work with it. its hot.
*I'd like a better interface for fonts as I have many 1000s and can not be bothered to click more > submenu more > submenu more...