Choosing
Graphics Software
Sometimes graphics software chooses you! While trying out some software
which you have downloaded or which you have read about, you just fall
in love with it. If you can, you buy it.
In order to build a website, you are going to have to be able
to use graphics software at some time or other. Even if it is
just to resize a picture.
More likely however, is that you will need to compress your images
in order to allow fast downloading of a web page because no matter how
good the page, if it doesn't download in about 10 seconds, it is unlikely
anyone will wait to see it.
Graphics
Software
AdobeAdobe produce a huge range of products but when it
comes to graphics software but perhaps the most well known is Photoshop.
Considered the industry standard in graphics software, Photoshop
is the benchmark all other products have to meet. Being the best, it
does not come cheap.
To fill the gap between low-priced graphics editors and Photoshop, Adobe
released the low priced and commendable Photoshop Elements, mainly
in direct competition to the widely praised PaintShopPro.
Jasc
PaintShopPro is Jasc Software's low priced answer to Photoshop.
Although only a fraction of the price of the Adobe product, PaintShopPro
delivers a huge range of features (including an extremely useful screen-capture
utility) and has won praise from all corners for it's low price vs quality
results. Highly recommended!
MacromediaMacromedia, like Adobe, produce a vast array of different
products.
Graphics software such as Illustrator and Fireworks
are the main graphics and photo editing software packages available.
Widely used among Pro designers, these graphics programs deliver top
quality results and this is reflected in the prices too; they don't
come cheap!
Worth a mention is IrfanView, which is a free
to use, basic graphics program available from
download.com,
tucows and
ZDnet.
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