Adobe Illustrator CS3

When I started this design stuff, Freehand 7 was the top-of-the-line program to use. Illustrator wasn't quite as user-friendly as Freehand... at least, the drawing tools were alot easier to use in Freehand. But since Freehand is slowly going into the crapper, I picked up Illustrator and gave it a try. Wow, is all I can say. This program has evolved tremendously. It's drawing tools are intuitive and easy to modify. The output from Illustrator is by far more universal, which is important when sharing artwork or printing. The new 3D tools are simply amazing (I have yet to find a need for them, but I wanna). One of the most usefull parts of Illustrator, for me at least, is the pixel preview. Drawing with vector tools in a raster environment is my preferred way of desiging screen graphics, and it works great in Illustrator (similar to how well Fireworks does it)

Screenshots:

Tight workarea

Complex Layers Pallet

Advanced Drawing Tools

	Liz - jessandfred at gmail dot com	Apr 9, 2009
	I agrea! I have also migrated from Freehand to Illustrator and what a difference! Do you know how to publish an Illustrator website design?
	Re: Liz jasonk - jasonk at jasonkenison dot com	Apr 9, 2009
	I use, and HIGHLY recommend Fireworks for website design, though Illustrator web designs can work if you can make pixel sharp designs in Illustrator (I find that to be difficult for me). Adobe Help site has some tutorials about slicing Illustrator designs just like you would in Photoshop [ link ]

 
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