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jimmy2x2x

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What graphics/design packages do you use?
« on: September 09, 2010, 11:02:11 am »
Is sketchup + photoshop the be all and end all for cabinet design?

What other packages do you use?

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Re: What graphics/design packages do you use?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 08:46:16 pm »
I use sketchup for 3d modeling and precise layouts in 2d (cp for example). 
I use paint.net for image editing.
I use inkscape for vector graphics editing.
All 3 are free.

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Re: What graphics/design packages do you use?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 09:31:49 pm »
Illustrator (Adobe) and Soldworks

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Re: What graphics/design packages do you use?
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2010, 05:21:46 am »
Go'ol Macromedia Freehand 10. Beats Illustrator (not even comparing to Inkscape :P ) in drawing time 1:2. Especially for vector art, copy-paste-inside is irreplaceable with Illustrator's masking crap.
Sketching of 3D in Sketchup (not free, I use the commercial one, as I need 3D export).
Photoshop I only use for preparing tracing files and making gradients, which I again paste into a vector shape in Freehand. If you want gradients super-fluent, Freehand and Illustrator are amateurs.
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