Image software

Thomas Hayes
Thomas Hayes Junior Member
in AMX Control Products
Hello everyone
I've started to make more of my own custom icons and was wondering what software that everyone is using to do so?
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  • jjames
    jjames AMX Sustaining Engineer
    I love using Fireworks 8 for all my stuff. The way I see it, Fireworks is more of a "drawing" program, and PhotoShop is more of a photo editing program.
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  • bmitchell
    bmitchell Junior Member
    I use Paint Shop Pro by Corel.
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  • Thomas Hayes
    Thomas Hayes Junior Member
    Thx's jjames and Bryan, I'm presently using photoshop/MS paint to do stuff but it's not the best. I'm trying to create better images for the panel than I have now. Do you know the cost?
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    Google The Gimp. It's an open-source free program on par with Photoshop. The learning curve is fairly steep though. For buttons and such, you may want to check out the Xara line; I htink their basic editors without going Flash and all that, are under $100.
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  • jjames
    jjames AMX Sustaining Engineer
    Fireworks 8 runs around $300, a bit costly but I think it's one of the best graphics programs out there - as far as creating images. Also - don't be suprised when you end up at Adobe's site when you try to find Macromedia's.
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  • youstra
    youstra Junior Member
    Photoshop - there's nothing you can't do w/ it, but it does have a learning curve.
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  • VLCNCRZR
    VLCNCRZR Senior member
    Button editor tool...

    Gee Wally...., wouldnt' it be real neat if there was button image editing stuff built
    right into the touch panel software?!?!

    I bet some other guys are already doin it.

    I don't know Beav, I dont think you can just mix stuff together like that!

    Well... anyways.., it would be real neat.

    Maybe...
    Someday...
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  • JMeeks
    JMeeks Junior Member
    My vote's for Fireworks, for one reason alone: vectors

    Vectors allow you near-infinite resizing capability. You can very quickly resize a button to accomodate any changes necessary.

    Also, Fireworks' layering system makes perfect sense for a touchpanel design.
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  • mpullin
    mpullin Obvious Troll Account, Marked for Deletion
    I use Flash 8 and export to PNG. (Since I use Flash anyway for a lot of other stuff)

    I see Fireworks dying a slow death ever since Macromedia was taken over -- no reason to put any more resources into a $300 program when your company owns an $800 program that does the same kinds of stuff.
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    mpullin wrote:
    I use Flash 8 and export to PNG. (Since I use Flash anyway for a lot of other stuff)

    I see Fireworks dying a slow death ever since Macromedia was taken over -- no reason to put any more resources into a $300 program when your company owns an $800 program that does the same kinds of stuff.
    Sort of like what AMX did with Phast? :)
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