Adobe Illustrator....?

Question:oh my god...
never in my life have i used something that frustrating for some things that should be so simple....
good thing i only used the free trial....
i drew a picture though :P

anyways, what would the advantages to using that over photoshop?

oh and, to anyone who uses it, how do you like it?

damnit print screen didnt work and now i closed it :( no more pic! :'(

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: oh my god...
never in my life have i used something that frustrating for some things that should be so simple....
good thing i only used the free trial....
i drew a picture though :P

anyways, what would the advantages to using that over photoshop?

oh and, to anyone who uses it, how do you like it?

damnit print screen didnt work and now i closed it :( no more pic! :'(

Illustrator can be hard to get used to, using the pen tool takes some time to develop your skills. The reason for using Illustrator is that it is a vector drawing program, while Photoshop is a raster image editor. The difference is that with raster programs, you are working with pixels. Once you have an image, whether a photo from a digital camera or an image you created in Photoshop, you only have the pixels that came with the image, so to speak. You are limited in how much you can change the size of that image before you lose image quality. If you've ever copied an image off a website and tried to enlarge it to print it, you know what I mean: it got fuzzy or blurry. This is because you were making the pixels bigger.

In Illustrator, you are using vectors, these are lines, curves and points drawn mathematically (you do not need to worry about the math). What this means is you can almost infinitely enlarge a vector drawing, so for example you might work on a 6 x 6 inch image on your computer, but that image, if it's a vector drawing, could be enlarge to go on the side of a building, say a sign that was 60 feet by 60 feet! You could not do that from a Photoshop image.

People use Illustrator for drawings, logo design, signs, etc.

That said, the two programs really work together, and kind of borrow from each other: there are now very good vector tools in Photoshop (although eventually these things have to be rasterized), and you can bring Photoshop images into Illustrator. You can rasterize an Illustrator file (turn it into pixels). So if you really want to be a graphic designer or digital artist it is worth learning both. You will find more people use Photoshop; if you have to make a choice you will probably want to get Photoshop rather than Illustrator.

Either way, you will also want to take a few classes or workshops (you can do that on line too, check out Lynda.com), and maybe invest in some good introductory books.

I hope this helps.

It's a really good software. Get use to it..i'm sure you'll love it later.

i love illustrator. i use it create vector logos and images. i draw with it all the time. you have to adjust to it, but once you do you'll love it.