It’s a residential design/build business. I have a strong CAD background, so I should be able to catch on to the concepts quickly. The program should allow for importing and manipulation of different fonts, images, graphic drawings, etc. I’d like to be able to develop something for business cards, signs in front of homes, billboards, ads for magazines, merchandise, stationary, etc. So, ideally, the program should be able to lay out and export the design most commonly required for these things. In the future, I’d like to use the designs for a website. Thanks in advance for your help!
Gimp isn’t a vector based graphics program, it’s basically like Photoshop. What you want is Illustrator, or some other vector graphics program, since you obviously want scalability. You can get the fully functional free trial from the Adobe website, if you anticipate your needs to fit within the 30 day limit.
Another option is to try a freeware program like Inkscape:
http://www.inkscape.org/
Personally, I’d just draw it in AutoCAD, then export as an EPS and then color and add effects in Illustrator. Well, depending on what you had in mind.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Well Students need money, and my suggestion to you is bug a student going to a University, they get discounts for Adobe Photoshop. Unless you have Linux, then It’s free with Gimp.
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December 7th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Gimp isn’t a vector based graphics program, it’s basically like Photoshop. What you want is Illustrator, or some other vector graphics program, since you obviously want scalability. You can get the fully functional free trial from the Adobe website, if you anticipate your needs to fit within the 30 day limit.
Another option is to try a freeware program like Inkscape:
http://www.inkscape.org/
Personally, I’d just draw it in AutoCAD, then export as an EPS and then color and add effects in Illustrator. Well, depending on what you had in mind.
References :
AutoCAD since 1984…with a 10 year break thrown in.