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Adobe Photoshop CS4 or Illustrator CS4?
NagelFire
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I am in an AP (Advanced Placement) art class, and my teacher is only letting us use one of the 2 programs that I mentioned in the title of the thread. I know that illustrator is a vector style program, which makes it easy to resize things. However, I also know that photoshop has more features and allowed you to do more things.
I make my artwork from scratch and I dont incorporate pictures (of people or enviroment).
What do you think?
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I'd say Illustrator then.
Edit:
NVM, just got done playing with Illustrator.
I'd say try both, figure out which one you like and which one would be easier for the class. Photoshop isn't just for editing stuff though.
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Photoshop, its a standard that almost every major company uses.
Photoshop is the standard it beats Illustrator in just about every aspect. Its more then likely in the next 5 years, Illustrator will be integrated into Photoshop.
You said you are looking more into creation instead of using photos and manipulation. In the avenue of creation you are much more limited with Illustrator. In nearly every digital art's field you will be utilizing Photoshop or Corel Painter, and another program for creation. Hands down you will want to use Photoshop.
Ive always learned photoshop in association with web deisgn as its bitmap which is more web friendly. For printed things illustrator and vector is much higher quailty and once you learn to use it you can make some dam good things from it.
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Photoshop.
Illustrator is niche in its uses. You only need vector graphics if you have a very specific need for vector graphics, like for an animation in ToonBoom or shapes for Silverlight or Flash. Or, resolution independent printing.
It sounds like you're just learning though, and it'd make more sense to learn all the pros of raster graphics first, its cons, and what pros vector graphics have ontop of those cons. It'd be backwards to struggle with vector graphics to do the most minor of things accomplishable with plain pixels.
Photoshop. Hands down.
Also check out Gimp. It's free if you can't buy Photoshop to put on your home computer.
http://www.gimp.org/How do you make a .gif? I used to be able to make one with CS2 but CS4 they took the program I made them with away.
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That's how you get the animation palette back with frame manipulation, timing, tweening, etc. Save For Web & Devices to export the animation.