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6 Responses to “Illustration Software”

1. Bertrand Delacrétaz said, on 24. March 2004 at 15:50
   

   I use Adobe Illustrator. The learning curve can be a bit steep, but learning it seems a worthwile investment to me. And the results can be gorgeous.

2. Andrew Savory said, on 24. March 2004 at 16:50
   

   I use Omnigraffle. It somehow takes even the worst-drawn diagrams and turns them into eye candy. Things just look better from the Mac ;-)

   Not sure there’s a good OS-agnostic solution. When I was on Windows I’d use Xara. I guess illustration packages are about as OS-tied as it gets.

3. Alan Gutierrez said, on 24. March 2004 at 20:17
   

   Me too! I’d like to know since I’m about to put some presentations together in PowerPoint. Omnigraffle looks like the way to go.

   Is there a good, simple, image manipulation program out there? Something simpiler than Photoshop.

4. Torsten Curdt said, on 24. March 2004 at 22:06
   

   I just found SmartDraw. I am currently trying their 30 days trial. But Omnigraffle looks much better (at least from what I can see from the screenshots) Naaahh… another reason to switch to OSX. I wish I could use OpenOffice Draw but it’s still a PITA to use for such figures.

5. querlink said, on 26. March 2004 at 15:25
   

   i agree with mr Delacrétaz: adobe illustrator is, if you ever used photoshop or other members of the adobe family, the best solution. i told you so, little fella… :-). be a proud member of the adobe family…

6. Torsten Curdt said, on 26. March 2004 at 16:28
   

   Might be true the results are good with Illustrator …but I rather like to have some more support for the particular task. An icon library, being able to change the whole design with a snap, support for diagrams and things like that. In this terms SmartDraw is not too bad. But some of the handling sucks badly!

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