Photoshop Or Illustrator

off.the.walls

Just messing about with some ideas and was wondering what do people tend to use when their designing.

Illustrator I find easy to use when working with flat design because of how easily you can make shapes with it.

Photoshop is easier to work with layers and such to design templates and draw out ideas.

What does everyone else tend to use?

Judge Mental

I much prefer to work with Illustrator when it comes to wire framing, mockups and general design elements - it's faster and I feel I've much more control. If it's going to be an image-heavy layout however I'll likely built it up in Photoshop (I dunno is it just me but I think importing images into Illustrator is sacrilegious).

was.deevey

Fireworks for me, IMHO its faster to work with vector based web objects than Illustrator, handles gradients in a more intuitive and faster way than PS and the layering is just "nicer".

I find I only use PS now for photoshop exclusive features like color replacement, or content aware fills. Clone stamp and magic wand is bucket loads better in PS so I mainly just use it for high quality photo editing for use within sites, although FW still handles 90% of what I'd normally need to edit.

cormee

They're two different tools for two different types of work. Illustrator for vector-based artwork, and Photoshop for raster (normally) images. So it depends on the work really. Designing artwork, wireframing, icons etc. I'd use Illustrator, and for editing images, touching up files exported from Illustrator as image files, I'd use Photoshop.

miralize

*cough* Sketch *cough*

off.the.walls

miralize wrote: »

*cough* Sketch *cough*

After the sketching stage.

miralize

bohemiancoding.com/sketch/

off.the.walls

miralize wrote: »

bohemiancoding.com/sketch/

Ohhhhhh I like it