create professional looking artwork (Adobe Illustrator CS3)

Member Name: groovy666

Product:	Adobe Illustrator CS3
Date:	07/03/09 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: create professional looking artwork, ideal for creating fashion illustrations

Disadvantages: not user friendly, and you need a lot of patience

This software allows you to create professioanl looking artwork, mainly used in the fashion and graphics industry. The package can cost anything upwards of 300 pounds however there are some sites which will do it at cut price for around 100 pounds. Although this sounds a lot, this software is extremely sophistictaed, and clever and once learnt can produce professional,accurate,creative illustrations.

The programme is unlike many others on the market as this is a vector programme, rather than a bitmap programme. Basically this means the image is not made up of small pixels like most artwork software, so however much you zoom in on the image it will not pixelate and will look clear and precise what ever way you look at it.

The main feature of the this package is the industry standard drawing tools, which include a pen to draw accurately and precisely, flexible colour standards which refer to pantones, so perfect for using in the fashion industry when comparing fabric colours to pantone numbers, and a variety of effects and manipulations you can create to your work. You can also manipulate text around any shape you want, and create professional looking logo designs and graphical images.

This package is only for the professionals as it can be hard to master and does need a lot of patience, but once this is mastered the outcomes are amazing. I use this on a daily basis as part of my job as a buyer/designer, you can create accurate print designs, and add them as a swatch to apply to any shape or garment you have drawn, and is perfect to create technical clothing drawings which you can send to factories/suppliers so they understand what you mean. One of the best artwork programmes on the market

Summary: a fantastic cad programme, but more for industry and professional users

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