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panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:

>In article <1992Nov18.040004.19625@Princeton.EDU> jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) writes:
>>The program I find most indispensible is Adobe Illustrator.  If you're
>>doing any sort of PostScript line art, as opposed to bit-mapped graphics
>>this is the program to have.  Aldus FreeHand is similar, and has a few more
>>bells and whistles, but I think Illustrator is much more elegant.
>>It's handling of type is also superior.
>>
>>John

>I have both Adobe Illustrator 3.2 and Aldus Freehand 3.1. I find
>that I use Illustrator more, even though, as described above,
>Freehand has features not found in Illustrator. However, another
>program worth checking out would be Letraset's ColorStudio with
>the Shapes Annex, which supposedly gives you the advantages of a
>bit-map program (such as Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter) as
>well as the functions of a vector program (Illustrator, Freehand)
>in one applications environment. Other programs to keep in mind
>would be utilities such as JAG (Jaggies Are Gone) and Smoothie,
>for anti-aliasing on-screen renderings, and Pixar's Typestry,
>for doing really far-out stuff with type (I just ordered it).

I agree whole-heartedly with the two previous posters on their opinions of 
Illustrator.  It is the yardstick with which other vector programs are
measured.  Photoshop is a must for a well equipped studio also ( thoough
in this case, I have never used any competing packages, so there could
be others that would substitute ).  But lumping Fractal Design Painter
in with the rest of the bitmap programs is doing it a grave discredit.
Fractal Design used with a pressure sensitive tablet is capable of 
producing effects in seconds that could take hours with another package.
At $200 it is one of the best values on the graphic arts market.  The
program is truly amazing, you have to see it to believe it.  Mind you
the Wacomb Tablet can cost over a thousand dollars, but after you exper-
ience what can be done with it, you will start saving your pennies.

Speaking of pennies, this is just my two.

P.S.  I am not affiliated with Fractal Design, this is an unsolicited
recommendation.

Love, e.


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