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Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65
Printed Date: 27 October 2025 at 11:14am


Topic: Software Comparison
Posted By: arand
Subject: Software Comparison
Date Posted: 26 March 2005 at 7:51am

What are the pros and cons to the following graphics software?

 - Adobe Illustrator

 - Micromedia Fireworks

 - Adobe Photoshop

 - Adobe Imageready 

Thanks.

 



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Arand


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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 26 March 2005 at 8:50am

This topic would fit better in the Resources and Support forum.

Anyway, look at this topic for pros and cons of various graphics programs: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2&PN=1 - http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2&PN =1


Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 26 March 2005 at 9:48am
Blueberry_pie speaks the truth.

Posted By: Chekote
Date Posted: 29 March 2005 at 1:41pm

 - Adobe Illustrator
Mainly for vector based graphics and text. Designed for Desktop Publishing.

 - Micromedia Fireworks
Macromedia's version of photo-shop. I like it.

 - Adobe Photoshop
Designed for a wide variety of tasks, with many advanced bitmap effects not available to Illustrator. As the name suggests, started out as a photo touch up and editing tool.

 - Adobe Imageready
Not sure about this one. I think it has something to do with preparing Photoshop images for web...

Posted By: DrknssCmth
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:08pm
And MS Paint is better then all of them combined

Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 02 April 2005 at 8:18am

Originally posted by DrknssCmth

And MS Paint is better then all of them combined

 

maybe for pixel art but not graphics in general

actually for pixel art i would vote on graphics gale being better

Posted By: TakeOut
Date Posted: 03 April 2005 at 3:36pm
I'm probrably the only one here who actually uses photoshop for drawing pixel art instead of just putting it in for transparency, windows and junk. Photoshop I think's the best program out there. It's just a wee' bit harder to use and you need to set it up to work with pixelart right. But in the end I like it much more. I used to hate drawing in ms paint then taking it in to photoshop for transparency. Now I just do it all in PS. PS's color loss feature is very handy for transparency and I basically like PS for all it's great effects and things that it can do to text.

Photoshop is perfect for other kinds of art also.

Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 03 April 2005 at 5:53pm
gotta say that I love using Paint Shop Pro for all my pixelling. It also comes with Animation Shop which works great with it.

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Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 10:04pm

Originally posted by pixelblink

gotta say that I love using Paint Shop Pro for all my pixelling. It also comes with Animation Shop which works great with it.

 

are you using psp7,8, or 9? i have 7 and 8 and i am sticking with 7. it seems so much quicker

Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 11:12pm

I have 7.02 ... I've used it since the start and can't be bothered to learn another program. Like they say - if it ain't broke, don't fix it



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Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 05 April 2005 at 3:47pm
Originally posted by pixelblink

I have 7.02 ... I've used it since the start and can't be bothered to learn another program. Like they say - if it ain't broke, don't fix it

 

i agree with that. in 7 i click the icon to open it boom its open. in 8 i click the icon to open it i have to wait a  min for everything to load :( more tools but i wanted a faster program :(

Posted By: matt
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 8:46am
Macromedia Fireworks is great for Web Graphics, and i also like to use it for Pixelling as i can control layers, transparencies, etc.

Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 10:05am

Should have nipped this in the bud quicker... don't want a bunch of topics about the same thing. Please post to the sticky topic in this section for pixel art software discussions.


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