Which should we purchase, PhotoShop or Illustrator

[Joe Malin]

My $.02 

Cleaning up graphics is one of Photoshop's target tasks. If you have the
money, Photoshop is the way to go. 

Creative Suite is worth the price, since it includes Photoshop,
Illustrator, *and* Acrobat Pro.

You will find that any sufficiently powerful bitmap editing application
is difficult to use. More power usually means more options, which in
turn means more ways to accidentally do something wrong! Fortunately,
Photoshop is one of the world's most popular packages, so all sorts of
help is available.

Does everyone understand the difference between vector and bitmap
graphics? I can elaborate if necessary.

Joe


Joe Malin
Technical Writer
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf
Of Michael O'Neill
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:11 PM
To: 'Cris Reeser'; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Which should we purchase, PhotoShop or Illustrator

Based on what you wrote, and assuming that the graphics you have to edit
are not Vectors, I would say Photoshop is the tool for you.  You are
describing editing pixels, and Photoshop would likely be more
appropriate than Illustrator for these tasks.

If budget is a concern, you can also try:

 PaintShopPro
  $79 US
  http://www.corel.com/PaintShopPro
  Free evaluation version available
  Win only

 the Gimp
  **FREE**
  http://www.gimp.org
  Win, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc..

-Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: Cris Reeser [mailto:cris at Magma-DA.COM]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:58 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: OT: Which should we purchase, PhotoShop or Illustrator

Does anyone in the group have experience with either of these tools? My
writing group is planning to buy either PhotoShop or Illustrator. We
need a tool to edit graphics that have been added to PowerPoint or
MSWord files. 

We get PowerPoint slides to edit and clean up for delivery. In places,
artwork has been pasted into the slide, but contains white boxes that
cover bits of the drawing or text. This method doesn't work in grayscale
because the hidden lines or text show up again. 

We need a tool that lets us remove text in the graphics where we do not
have the source file.

Are either of these the right tool for this? Which tool would you
recommend?


Cris Reeser
Sr. Technical Writer


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