What software do most web designers use?

Darkphenom

What software do most web designers use? What software makes good graphics for websites?

Ingenuist

Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.



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Trojan

Photoshop, Illustrator.

VampiricPadraig

Gimp. kompoZer.

D Hayes

Trojan wrote: »

Photoshop, Illustrator.

What can you do in Illustrator that you can't do in Photoshop? Is it mainly for creating vector images?

Trojan

buysellswap wrote: »

What can you do in Illustrator that you can't do in Photoshop? Is it mainly for creating vector images?

An awful lot! I barely use it myself, but my lead designer is an Illustrator wizard, the stuff he can do with it is incredible. It's a really powerful tool.

Darkphenom

Is there any thing simple to use to make graphics from scratch

Placebo

photoshop, but to be honest, these days everything can be done with css, most websites only rely on backdrops and some effects.
Back in the day full websites needed to be done in photoshop, specially for buttons etc etc

anyway you need photoshop to design your mockup, then slice and code it etc
so adobe photoshop, could use paintshop pro or gimp, but photoshop is most widely used.

strandroad

Fireworks + Dreamweaver combo works best for me. Photoshop for some more complex graphics/photo editing if need be, but most of web layout work can be done in Fireworks much better and faster.

Ingenuist

Darkphenom wrote: »

Is there any thing simple to use to make graphics from scratch

GIMP is pretty simple, other than that its photoshop which is far more complex.

You could always use MS Paint if you only need to create something very basic.

nellyshark

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/29/40-desert-island-web-development-tools/ has a few decent links in it.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/18/15-helpful-in-browser-web-development-tools/ inbrowser tools

Darkphenom

Ingenuist wrote: »

GIMP is pretty simple, other than that its photoshop which is far more complex.

You could always use MS Paint if you only need to create something very basic.

Just as an example what did you use to create your signature graphic?

Webmonkey

Photoshop + Dreamweaver (only for the handy auto complete, never in the design mode..that confuses me! )

Learn how to use CSS properly and you'll be flying. That's where the magic happens after you've the design ready in Photoshop.

I guess to each their own though. I'd love to give Illustrator a proper go some time.

Ingenuist

Darkphenom wrote: »

Just as an example what did you use to create your signature graphic?

Photoshop

pixelburp

On a typical day, depending on what I'm being asked to do, it would be any one of the following:

Photoshop - for concepts, designs, graphics
Flash (though sometimes use FlashDevelop) - for Flash, naturally.
Aptana Studio - for HTML, CSS, JavaScript scripting
Microsoft Visual Studio - for any VB / Aspx work I need to do.