Application Recommendation Wanted

[DanielBrenton]

To All --

Brand new to these forums, though I'm a Paracast fan also. Had a question.

Let me set this up a little.

Mac has kissed Classic goodbye (thank you Mr. Jobs) and now this creature of habit (me) has to look around for some new software, and it's only appropriate I drag my virtual butt into the 21st Century.

Every so often I need to make use of a graphics program to build basic images, and then I'll use Photoshop to enhance what I'm working on and crunch it for web use.

(Okay, now you're going to laugh.)

Remember Superpaint? I actually got it to run on my OS 10.3 Classic mode, though it has a few hiccups here and there. What I liked about it is that it was so intuitive and user-friendly (Gene -- I used it for the lettering gradients for the animated graphic you put up for me on The Paracast side, and for a lot of the graphics on the Luna 15 website).

I am not a professional artist by any means, but I would like suggestions as to some kind of well-rounded graphics program that can give me good results without making me crazy while trying to learn it.

Suggestions?

[Gene Steinberg]

I'll ask around, but have you considered Illustrator?

[DanielBrenton]

Originally Posted by Gene Steinberg

I'll ask around, but have you considered Illustrator?

Gene --

That would be the obvious one, wouldn't it?

I hadn't just jumped into that because I used to work near a graphics department for a fairly large company, and they seemed to be moving away from Illustrator. Of course, this was a Windows-oriented company, and I didn't follow what they were doing very closely or the reasons behind it.

Thanks, I'll see what I can pick up about it. I haven't seen a Mac version of Illustrator for many years.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by DanielBrenton

Gene --

That would be the obvious one, wouldn't it?

I hadn't just jumped into that because I used to work near a graphics department for a fairly large company, and they seemed to be moving away from Illustrator. Of course, this was a Windows-oriented company, and I didn't follow what they were doing very closely or the reasons behind it.

Thanks, I'll see what I can pick up about it. I haven't seen a Mac version of Illustrator for many years.

It's still an industry-standard.

Of course, David Biedny knows about all the stuff that doesn't get millions of dollars of publicity.

[Jose Collado]

Moving away from illustrator? OUCH!

Corel? Freehand? Mario Paint?

I don't think I could ever use anything but Illustrator for vector art. I had to use Corel once....and I'm still recovering.
Get your hands on Illustrator. It's been industry standard since....since....when did dinosaurs die out? You're better off learning it in the long run. Go on...you know you want to.