What's your Vector?

[skylerskinner]

Do you prefer Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator? Or do you prefer something else?

[Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud]

I have Illustrator. It's not bad, but I don't know how to use it, and it's an old version. I like using Rhino, which uses vectors. It's a 3D modelling program for those who don't know.

[Lagamuffin]

I use Illustrator, because I like it.

2500th post.

[Snake-Arsenic]

I absolutely love Inkscape, Every icon and button in my NG Classic theme was made in Inkscape and anti-aliased in GIMP.

[Ben]

I generally traverse a vector of magnitude 4, though it varies depending on how I'm feeling that day.

[Heinrich]

My Vector is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. I got it because it is far more useful than Adobe Fireworks when it comes to editing pictures.

Not to mention I saved $700.00 by buying it on eBay!

[Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud]

While we are still in the conversation, what's Inkscape and Magnitude 4, and how do they differ from Illustrator? And are any free?

[skylerskinner]

Inkscape is a free, open source vector graphics manipulation tool originally designed for Ubuntu Linux.

[esko-man]

I mostly stick to Illustrator and Fireworks for all I can.

[bgraybr]

At 6/13/09 07:29 PM, Snake-Arsenic wrote: I absolutely love Inkscape, Every icon and button in my NG Classic theme was made in Inkscape and anti-aliased in GIMP.

I have it. Haven't gotten around to using it much- it's kind of confusing at first.

At 6/13/09 07:35 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: While we are still in the conversation, what's Inkscape and Magnitude 4, and how do they differ from Illustrator? And are any free?

Inkscape is completely free and I think open source... not sure though.

[Digital-Terror]

I usually use Flash, but occasionally I will use inkscape.

[McZero]

MAN!

HAHA.

[TheBoyOfAges]

At 6/13/09 07:57 PM, McZero wrote: MAN!

HAHA.

Fucking WIN!

+1 post

[Snake-Arsenic]

At 6/13/09 07:50 PM, bgraybr wrote:

At 6/13/09 07:29 PM, Snake-Arsenic wrote: I absolutely love Inkscape, Every icon and button in my NG Classic theme was made in Inkscape and anti-aliased in GIMP.

I have it. Haven't gotten around to using it much- it's kind of confusing at first.

It's got it's own way of doing things, but I've found the right plug-ins for me. I'm actually writing a plugin for it that might be useful, if you want an example of one of it's functions select my sig image in Internet Explorer and depending on your theme you'll see some text.

Inkscape is completely free and I think open source... not sure though.

It is, and it's the closest thing I've seen that has a workflow similar to some professional sign-writing apps that I used in a past job (less sophisticated, of course). It uses SVG as the native format which is viewable in most browsers and tweakable if you're game enough to open the saved files in a text editor.

[bgraybr]

At 6/13/09 08:01 PM, Snake-Arsenic wrote: It's got it's own way of doing things, but I've found the right plug-ins for me. I'm actually writing a plugin for it that might be useful, if you want an example of one of it's functions select my sig image in Internet Explorer and depending on your theme you'll see some text.

I didn't even know about the plug-ins until just now... I'll have to look into it.
I don't have internet explorer so I can't see it.