Photoshop or Illustrator (or both?) for clothing design?

I really want to start getting into designing jerseys for sports teams but I don't know what program I should start out with.

Start with the printing service you plan on using or the printer you plan on purchasing, find out what formats are supported and go from there.
Both apps are capable of creating vector graphics, however illustrator has a more streamlined approched and better import/export handling of vector files.
whether you go with vector or raster will also depend on what style of graphics you plan on printing. Gradients, drop shadows, etc. are more raster based, line art is more vector based. But they can be blended to a certain degree.
I think most users would say the app to use is the one you are most comfortable using. Because there is some overlap in features between the two apps.

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Does a new customer buying creative cloud include download and use of Photoshop, Fireworks, Bridge and Acrobat for one designer/individual?

Does a new customer buying creative cloud include download and use of Photoshop, Fireworks, Bridge and Acrobat for one designer/individual?

Cloud Plans https://creative.adobe.com/plans
-and subscription terms http://www.adobe.com/misc/subscription_terms.html
-what is in the entire Cloud http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/desktop.html
-http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/mobile._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_mobiledevi ces.html

Will there be a Photoshop or Illustrator plug-in for Adobe Collage?

Downloaded and had a quick play with Adobe Collage last night. It's pretty cool in principle for creating quick mood boards for ideas, but there is a real lack of options in terms of downloading them (only lets you download in native format, which is pointless on a computer!). So, well, the question is in the title!

The option is available now through Creative Cloud, if you upload your Collage project to Creative Cloud there is an option to download in PSD format
The steps would be:
1. Upload your project to Creative Cloud from the tablet
2. Open the Creative Cloud website (https://creative.adobe.com/) on the computer with Photoshop
3. In the Files section double-click the project to view it full screen
4. Use the download option to save the file on your computer and select PSD as the format to save the project in
5. Open the PSD in Photoshop from wherever you saved it on your computer
(click to view larger)
-Dave

Fireworks, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Hello,
I was not sure whether to post this in the Fireworks,
Photoshop, or Illustrator forums. The horrid design of the other
two forums, and the fact that no matter how much it was referenced
I could not find an Add Topic button (and yes, I was logged in)
brought me here.
The new replacement suite for Studio, CS3 Web Premium,
includes Photoshop and Illustrator. I know that Fireworks and
Illustrator both do vector graphics, but other then that, what is
the difference between the three? Why would I use all three when I
could get along with just one-is there a specific use for each?
Which might be better for creating a website comp?
Thanks,
Dylan
PS: Are there Adobe created tutorials on the software suite
available somewhere, like the Exploring Studio ones?

Yeah, the old Adobe forums are pretty nasty, aren't they? :)
These forums are pretty slow, though -- another reason some people
prefer using the synced newsgroups all around instead.
No problems posting it here, just don't be surprised if
everyone says Fireworks is the best. ;) Actually, each tool is
unique, best at what they do.
Everyone will tell you this, but it's really true: the best
way will be to download the trials of all three and give them a
spin. What sort of stuff do you want to do? Pick something, and try
to do it in all three, you'll find out which is better for the task
pretty quickly. Don't just throw some random shapes and text
around, that won't really give you a good feel of how a real
project would go down for you. Pick a practical project and do it
in all three.
That said, here's a summary of all three, in my opinion:
Illustrator: Advanced vector editing application, little to
no raster editing support. Powerful but very high learning curve
for most people. Illustrator targets print work, and is rarely used
for web work, though you can. It has many print specific features
that are meaningless for the web, and sometimes confusing and
misleading for web designers.
Photoshop: Advanced raster editing program, little vector
support(sometimes criticized as having no "true" vector support).
Powerful image manipulation abilties, has a medium learning curve,
but a lot of efficiency deficiencies in my opinion which can make
it frustrating to many beginners. Photoshop was originally for
print(and still is) but has developed some decent web oriented
features(exporting, slices, etc). However, it's duel print/web
feature set can get in the way of both when you are dealing with
one medium or the other.
Fireworks: Hybrid vector and raster editing application,
exclusively for web design(not print). Has all the basic features
of vector editing and raster editing combined in one very coherent,
seamless environment, but doesn't have the most advanced vector
features found in Illustrator or the most advanced raster features
found in Photoshop. Pretty easy learning curve. Fireworks is
designed especially for web and has been since the start, so has
many web centric features making it very focused for web design and
overall very intuitive to most web designers. For instance,
Fireworks is the only application of the three that has support for
multiple page documents, which is really useful for web design.
Hope that helps! I'm sure you'll get more responses.
:)

Canceling CC and maintaining owned photoshop and illustrator

I signed up for CC almost two years ago for discount rate - despite owning software Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator and Flash for years.
The CC is great but I don't use the other programs at all and find the raised price of $54.00 a month way too expensive. I only use Photoshop and Illustrator anyway.
I like to cancel plan and just maintain the software I owned before ( Photoshop and Illustrator). Will the cancellation screw up my the current versions of Photoshop and Illustrator on my computer?
Thanks

When you cancel the CC, the CC versions will stop working, the pre-owned products products can still be used.
Regards
Rajshree

Product help Photoshop vs Illustrator

Hi guys,
I have a site I created
(http://www.toplankanews.com) that is using a Joomla template. I want to redesign the template but was wondering which product Photoshop or Illustrator is best for creating Joomla templates. Any advice is much appreciated!

Use Adobe Fireworks or the free GIMP. Either or will do just great for web theme creation. Photoshop is way overkill and you'll spend more time learning how to use it then in being productive. Adobe Fireworks is made for the creation of web graphics and has excellent bitmap and vector support.

I want to upgrade my account to include illustrator but do not want to pay full price for both photoshop and illustrator. How can I accomplish this?

I want to upgrade my account to include illustrator but do not want to pay full price for both photoshop and illustrator. How can I accomplish this?

Photography plan is $9.99 and any added single subscription is $19.99
Cloud Plans https://creative.adobe.com/plans

Shopping for PC for Photoshop CS4 & Illustrator

I'm shopping for a new PC to run Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator primarily for textile design. Any suggestions on the minimum and ideal specifications on the type and size of the:
processor
memory
video / graphics
Thanks

My budget is around $1,000.00 or so.
I've been looking at two configurations of the Dell XPS 8100
Both have:
               Processor: Intel Core i7-860
               Memory: 8 GB Dual Channel DDR# SDRAM @ 1333 MHz -4 DIMMs
They differ:
Video Card: a) ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3
                   b) nVidia GeForce GTS240 1024MB GDDR3
I've tried building something w/ similar specs at HP and Cyberpower and the price seems to be generally the same range.
As for size of files that is hard to say. The finished files that I send to the digital printer's FTP site will be smaller than what I work with but they said they get a broad range of file size from under a 1M to over 1G.

Can I have a decreased / cheaper monthly priced membership for some time, by keeping active only Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC and Acrobat?

Hello, and good evening from Athens, Greece.
I would like to ask a question concerning my CC membership.
I’ve started 1 and a half year ago by paying 29,99 € for the entire CC (all programs). Now, it’s 49,99 € and I’m having a really difficult time to keep it this way. I’m living in a country which is in the middle of crisis and my profession as a graphic designer, is not an exception to reduced spendings on advertising.
My question is, can I have a decreased / cheaper monthly priced membership for some time, by keeping active only Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC and Acrobat? I don’t need for now the other apps. Can I have a membership plan only for those applications? I would very much appreciate your respond, a help and a solution to my issue.
Thank you very much.
Michael.
P.S. Forgot to tell, that I have a purchased Design Standard CS3 Suite. If this helps.

No... there is a special Photography plan
Special Photography Plan (includes Bridge)
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/differences-photoshop-creative-cloud-photography.html
Every thing else is all or nothing
Cloud Plans https://creative.adobe.com/plans
-and subscription terms http://www.adobe.com/misc/subscription_terms.html
-what is in the entire Cloud http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/desktop.html

Ever since i "upgraded" to yosemite i can't run illustrator (i'm getting a plugin error "Photoshopimport.aip" and "PhotoshopExport.aip" message... i've tried to get support (no longer available for cs4 design premium!!!... i've uninstalled and reinstalled

ever since i "upgraded" to yosemite i can't run illustrator (i'm getting a plugin error "Photoshopimport.aip" and "PhotoshopExport.aip" message... i've tried to get support (no longer available for cs4 design premium!!!... i've uninstalled and reinstalled... the problem persists... can anyone at adobe provide guidance, orientation, help?... thank you kindly,
bob kincey
[email protected]
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Some people have reported success with opening Photoshop before opening AI. Some how the aips are registered there and are then available to work in AI.

New laptop spec suggestions for Photoshop and Illustrator

Hi Everyone!
As I am sifting through the posts regarding laptops - I figured I'd post my own as my requirements are a little different. I am looking to buy a new windows laptop. I work with Photoshop and Illustrator and basic office programs like outlook, word and excel. I have CS2 but will upgrade with the new laptop purchase - so running CS5.5 (or better) Photoshop and Illustrator is required. I may or may not buy the whole Creative Suite as I only use these and Acrobat. I want to spend what is required to get the job done well - not more - but I don't want to be cheap either – my laptop needs to work well & not hamper my workflow. This will be my only computer. Being efficient is key. I use Adobe to do graphics for apparel: (embroideries, prints, logos, etc.) and small business (logos, print media, etc.). I work in actual size – so a lot of what I do is on a 20 x 30 art board. I do not work on videos – just print media and static artwork. Suggestions on the specs I will need and/or actual laptop models would be great. Thanks so much for your help - it is all so confusing!
JP

Photoshop CS5
System requirements
Windows
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
1GB of RAM
1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis*
Illustrator CS5
System requirements
Windows
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
1GB of RAM
2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive*
Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis†
for the information -- both photoshop and illlustrator have not been updgraded, they both are UPDATED,
the updates can be downloaded form http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
hope it helps
thanks and regards
AnIsH

Photoshop or Illustrator - for creating digital art?

So, I want to create digital arts like the link provided below. I just don’t know if Photoshop or Illustrator is the right tool. Money really isn’t an object when it comes to art, but uh, which one is more designed for creating digital artwork?
Example Picture Link: http://d.facdn.net/art/thefarewelled/1304841391.thefarewelled_huey_cut_in_copy.png
[This is not my picture and found on google images]
Please & thanks, Much love.

Ultimately I would say photoshop is your best bet. You can do the hard lines, shading and blending for this type of thing fairly easily in photoshop compared to illustrator if you know how. Most web comic artist I know who do their work in color usually use photoshop to produce exactly this type of look. For examples look at Katbox.net/laslindas or 2kinds.com

Anyone using Photoshop Elements for Fashion Design

Hi,
I'm looking for software to help me in the Fashion Design Industry. I want to use it for my sketches. I am a beginner when it comes to Fashion Design and have no experience using Photoshop software. I had read somewhere that Photoshop Elements is a less expensive version of Photoshop. I read that it does 90% of what Photoshop does without the higher end pre -press printing capabilities. I also read that there is a book that will help you with the other 10% to achieve the full Photoshop capabilities.
1a. I would like to know is anyone using Photoshop Elements for Fashion Design?
1b. If yes, please explain in details what exactly are you using it for?
2a. Is there more than one version of Photoshop Elements?
2b. If so, what version do you recommend?
3. How easy is it to use?
4. Do you know of any books you can recommend that will help me with using the software for fashion design?
5. If you don't feel Photoshop Elements is the best choice, then what other software would you recommend?
Thanks

I've never used PSE for fashion design, but there is only one flavor of elements, not a variety of different versions. I would wonder about using it for this because it could make a lot of difference if you need to create output in CMYK form (for print) or to softproof (neither of which is available in PSE). You also can't create composite layers in Elements.
I like Elements a lot, but I would not say it's 90% of Photoshop, more like 70% and I would expect that people would use Illustrator rather than PS for most things to do with creating illustrations. Also, there is no book that can make PSE into PS, although you can extend what it can do, but Adobe has deliberately crippled certain features in PSE.
I would say we need to know what you need a program to do to be able to give you any useful kind of advice. If you need to be able to draw vectors and paths, PSE is not a good choice. If you just need to sketch, it's fine.

Can External Drives be Home for CS3 Photoshop and Illustrator?

I thinking about upgrading to PS and AI CS3, but my C drive is pretty full--only 1GB spare. I'm using Win XP.
Can these products be installed on an external drive, work design images from there or in a partition, and be stored there without problems?
Or, I have 4 partitions with sufficient space that might hold the installations with anywhere from 11GB-193GB. Would installation there be appropriate with all work saved to my external drives? (I have 2)
I'm already nervous reading all the installation problems I've previewed
and sure don't want to add to them.........thanks so much for the advice....mm

All of my applications, including Adobe apps, are on drives/partitions other than c:, which is my system bootup drive. Data (i.e., "documents") are on other drives. Scratch space is on yet other drives. However, all of these drives are internal, not external.
External drives should work, but this is not recommended because you simply cannot achieve the data throughput you can with internal drives (unless you are using the eSATA interface or high-speed SCSI drives).
Applications like Photoshop and Illustrator move a lot of data around and require ample scratch space for proper functioning. Every component of your system -- processor, memory, hard drives, etc. -- needs to be optimized to avoid bottlenecks that can send you out for extra coffee breaks. External drives (with exceptions as noted above) are going to slow you down.

Can i buy both photoshop and illustrator, but just those two?

Can i buy both photoshop and illustrator from adobe, but only buy those two apps?

Hi megan14,
Yes, you can purchase multiple single-app membership plans under a single Adobe ID, as long as they are for different applications.
See Creative Cloud Help | Creative Cloud / Common Questions
^Ani

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