Graphic Software For Startup

[mags1892]

Aaah, Aldus Freehand - I remember it well. And Pagemaker too. Them were the days!

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Sigh Oh how I hated pagemaker I was a Quark Express man

[Brixhamboy]

Ah yes, dear old Quark which followed Pagemaker . . . and before that all those hours spent entering commands directly into a monotype imagesetter. . . and before that hand-chiselling individual characters into stone blocks.

But you tell this to the kids nowadays and they don't believe a word!

[k21john]

Ah yes, dear old Quark which followed Pagemaker . . . and before that all those hours spent entering commands directly into a monotype imagesetter. . . and before that hand-chiselling individual characters into stone blocks.

But you tell this to the kids nowadays and they don't believe a word!

and don't forget good old Letterset now who's showing their age.....lol

[Brixhamboy]

All my students used to have Letraset catalogues - brilliant for reference and equally good for photocopying and using for paste ups. Letraset are still going in Ashford. I'm just grateful I don't need to carry a typesetting gauge any longer.

[daviddeer]

Letraset? I'm still using the goose quill pens.

[arthur.daley]

quill pens? ha! still using a clay tablet and stylus here ;o)

[ukuwi]

Sounds like some of you started with cave drawings, I myself have never been a huge fan of the big players in the graphic industry, yes they are awesome programs but the price is high and the learning curve is long, I stopped using Coreldraw (Bloatware) because it was sooo slow, was a big fan of PSP by jasc for many years before Corel bought Jasc and destroyed it, I currently use a few cheap programs for all my graphic needs, Affinity designer, art text, pixelmator and silhouette business edition, I can remember walking into a shop and handing over a cheque for 5k for Autodesk 3D Studio for dos, they were the days. with so many low cost graphics programs available today the need to spend a fortune has long since passed, I can still edit and process all the major formats, eps, ai, pdf, tiff, png, tga etc etc, and of course there is a plethora of completely free and very capable graphic packages like Gimp, Inkscape. etc, most programs have time limited trial versions, so its always worthwhile trying a few out to see which ones fills your need.

[Dave271069]

I use photoshop elements. A old version can be bought outright on ebay for less then £100 and it's good enough for most start ups.

[ukuwi]

I use photoshop elements. A old version can be bought outright on ebay for less then £100 and it's good enough for most start ups.

Adobe are selling the full version of adobe elements 14 for win or mac on their site for £55.37, similar price on Amazon.

[arthur.daley]

Adobe were bundling up Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements xx? for about 50 quid a while back. I know it isn't the latest version but I seem to remember that it is the version recommended by Sawgrass -some kind of compatability issue that may already have been fixed.

I have CS6, CS2, Photoshop 6 and Elements 11 and have to say that Elements will do 99% of what I need to do.


Arthur