Photo Shop or Illustrator

[jayc3399]

I recently got both of the peices of software from my father, he works with a news paper company. and I was wondering which would be better for pixiling?

[Metroid]

I have never used Illustrator, but I don't see how Photoshop can be beat.

[tripsis]

For pixeling? I never saw Illustrator as much of a pixeling program. Overall I prefer Photoshop much more. Illustrator, to me, is more of a program for designing advertisements and such. I'd go with Photoshop, there's a lot more to do I think :P

[jayc3399]

Ok, I wasn't sure. My father said that most grafics professionals use Illustrator.

[Baemnt13]

Photoshop is much more user friendly. Illustrator is more for Graphic Paintings. So, stick with Photoshop =D

[tripsis]

Well there are different kinds of graphics professionals. Most people into advertising use Illustrator. But Photoshop is used for digital painting, retouching photographs and animation. But if you only plan on doing pixel art, just stick with MS Paint (if you have it). There's no sense in buying a program that's a couple hundred dollars just so you can do pixel art.. Especially if you have MS Paint laying around already :wink:

[terley]

well pixeling is all manual pixel-by-pixel art, illustrator is Vector based and usually used in Graphic Design, advertising, Product design etc.. not really souly for graphics, Adobe Photoshop is the way to go with that, as people who use illustrator, use photoshop for graphics..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make sure you know what 'pixeling' is though, photoshop has many options that you just don't need for it..

[jayc3399]

I don't have to pay for either program and I have em both

[terley]

yeah me too.

[killer2650]

i personall y like photoshop to make my signatures. ( i know, i don't have one) I have used Illustrator in school, and it is not really a pixeling program. Phtoshop is very user friendly. it has so much more to it than Illustrator, so i would recommend Photoshop in all aspects.

[abhinav_g90]

as ter said, illustrator is for making vector art

 

 

 

and photoshop for raster with lil support for vector

 

 

 

pixel is vector art

 

 

 

click here for more info on vectors and rasters

[terley]

vector is a little different to pixel art abhinav, vector is mathmatically created so it can be changed to anysize without any loss of quality.. try resizing something made in Paint, it just blurrs.

[pryomancer]

85% of Photoshop's resources you don't need for pixel art, and I personally don't like using it for pixels because I'm weak-willed and will probably try sneak in a gradient or two. #-o