Good logo designing software?
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dont buy logo creation software. hire someone to do it for you. If you are considering some premade junk or template, it's gonna suck.
MSPAINT - windows 3.1 is the only way to go for DIY premium logo creation.
MSPAINT - windows 3.1 is the only way to go for DIY premium logo creation.
Photoshop is certainly usable, but you will inevitably find limitations with creating logos using a bitmap editing tool (especially for print).
Ideally you should use Illustrator to produce purely vector based logos that can then be scaled to any dimensions without loss of quality, and can be output to any file format, in any colour system, for any application.
Logos should always be distributed to designers, suppliers, and other business associates as vector based files, usually as an AI, EPS, or PDF file in RGB, CMYK and PMS formats (that is for on screen, 4 colour printing, and Pantone Matching System).
To further answer your question, packages like Logo Creator cannot be considered "professional logo creating software".
Ideally you should use Illustrator to produce purely vector based logos that can then be scaled to any dimensions without loss of quality, and can be output to any file format, in any colour system, for any application.
Logos should always be distributed to designers, suppliers, and other business associates as vector based files, usually as an AI, EPS, or PDF file in RGB, CMYK and PMS formats (that is for on screen, 4 colour printing, and Pantone Matching System).
To further answer your question, packages like Logo Creator cannot be considered "professional logo creating software".
At best they use predefined templates, and put in your own text in place of the template's. Which is hardly unique, and depending on the tool (such as clipart package) you have to read the fine print as often there may be restrictions for using the results for commercial or trademarked use.
Just to expand on that, Photoshop vector functionality has been updated a lot since the old days of raster-only editing. You CAN create vector logos in Photoshop, but if you're really serious about it, get Illustrator.
Same here. Photoshop photoshop photoshop
Illustrator is the best tool to use for creating logos.
Photoshop may in fact have vector creative tools, but if you save out a vector eps from Photoshop it will rasterize it when reopened. Opening it in Illustrator provides you with rasterized data within clipping masks, so it can't be infinitely scaled like true vector art.
thanks to your post i just installed CD. lets c how it goes
Same here. Photoshop photoshop photoshop
i know a bit of PS, but still my images are not scalable
Coreldraw is cool...It has some really neat effects that Illustrator doesn't have. I'm a Illustrator / Freehand guy.
OK Question, what do you guys use when you are working on some BS or something that doesn't warrant double clicking on the Illustrator Icon to do? Is there a site the makes good generic icon logos? Haaaaaaaa, don't post the spin link.
OK Question, what do you guys use when you are working on some BS or something that doesn't warrant double clicking on the Illustrator Icon to do? Is there a site the makes good generic icon logos? Haaaaaaaa, don't post the spin link.
Apparently not enough PS to know photoshop can handle vectors, course as said earlier the ideal tool for vectors out of the adobe suite is Illustrator.
Sites like Shutterstock and iStock have extensive collections of vector based icons and logos. This is what a lot of the $5 logo guys you see around here are selling, a piece of Shutterstock clip art with a font tacked onto it.
You cannot use vectors from istock as part of your company's trademark.
iStockphoto License Agreement | iStockphoto.com
Section 4.a Standard License Prohibitions. (note #4)
Some of the $5 logo guys just bang that shit out on an etch-a-sketch, set it on the table, take a flatbed scanner, turn it upside down on the etch-a-sketch and hit the scan button. Then they send you a 128K gif file and when you ask them for vectors, they say OK and send you a 200K gif of the same thing.
Seroiusly, for light web stuff and quick edits, check out inkscape and the svg format.
Seroiusly, for light web stuff and quick edits, check out inkscape and the svg format.
LMAO!!!!!!!! I just pictured some chimp doing logos for people with and etch-a-sketch. :rasta:
I got pissed and went ahead and fired up Photoshop for my cheap crap....snagged an image off Google Images....
Inkscape looks good! Might play with that sometime.
I've never paid attention to the part where iStock said don't use vectors in logos. I knew in reproduced articles but not logos. I don't do a lot of logos...