Which software do you use for creating logo ?

Which one is the best containing lots of features

 

well, Adobe Illustrator *IS* the industry norm, but there happens to be another great one out there I use professionally as well called Inkscape.

Lucky for you, Inkscape is fully-loaded and happens to be open-source so you can use it for free

http://www.inkscape.org

Enjoy!

 

I personally use Adobe Illustrator. I think it's the best out there, and lots of tutorials also.

 

again, Illustrator is great, and it and Inkscape share the same 95% of functionality, and I liked AI enough to pay for it even when I had it

BUT, for an AI person to say that inkscape isn't as good is simply ignorant - and for no good reason because since it's free, every AI user can have both!

Where Inkscape is better than AI:

-Pen tool is more natural. Pen tool is also the heart of all vector illustration

-All colours can be computed with alpha (transparency) and AI (maybe in CS4, which I don't haver yet) can only -compute RGB or CMYK and then alpha on the entire object.

-Gradients on strokes in Inkscape, only solid fills for strokes in AI

-Open standard SVG's perfectly

-Allows you to view the source code of the document and edit using text, if you so choose. AI cannot and will not ever do this

-Advanced path effects AI doesn't have.

Where AI is better than Inkscape

-Text tool has more options

-better CMYK support for advanced stuff

-interchange formats with Photoshop and Flash, which I also use


So yes, there are reasons to use both, but hey, even if Inkscape happened to be less powerful than AI, it's still infinitely cheaper for somebody starting out - so why not!

 

As suggested by innovati am gonna download the open source program and try it once .

 

try it once? you can't learn anything trying it just once!

Inkscape is a vector editor, unless you've used vector editors before it opens up an entirely new way of thinking about graphics. Instead of painting pixels, you're placing nodes and then drawing lines between them.

It's like you're making a game of conntect-the-dots, and then telling the computer how to colour in the shapes. But that way, you can resize the image as small or as large as you like, and it simple re-draws the shape. You could make it literally thr size of a house, and it wouldn't be pixellated, it would simply scale the image up and re-draw it perfectly.

This is why logos must be created as vector - if you want to print it, you're going to need a high-resolution image.....if you want to print it larger, you're going to need a much larger high-resolution image.

Creating it at vector removes this problem, as it's resolution independent.

Enjoy!

 

thanks for your information i never knew about this vector concept before .I just wanted a kind of software using which i can make logos for my site .

 

Got to be illustrator!

 

it does't have to be illustrator, if you're making that claim, and implying to somebody who doesn't know what they're doing that they MUST spend hundreds of dollars on software in order to be able to accomlish a task I'm saying I accomplish at a professional level, you're going to have to back it up with more than 4 words.

Why *must* it be illustrator? What do you use Illustrator for in logo design that you've found Inkscape can't do for you? There are other apps out there like Corel too, why illustrator rysdesigns?

 

I use logomaker although it kind of sucks but overall it's still a good software for creating logos

 

I use Photoshop ........... I didn't know about Illustrator

 

I agree Tauren Illustrator is a good package to use for creating logo's If you create them in photoshop they are not as scalable due to them being raster graphic not vector.

 

I like Inkscape, but until recently it had no support for separations making it pretty useless for printing for litho or screenprint. I believe that there is work being done but when...
Frankly both will do the job but one's free and the other is the industry standard. I usually find that the weakest part of the programme is the operator.

 

Illustrator number one choice for us.

 

Another + vote for adobe Illustrator...

 

I use them all. Prefer illustrator.. I paid for it so why wouldn't I use it? Inkscape is fun, and sure it offers a lot of unique features..

 

Adobe illustrator is always on top for creating logo design.

 

I use Maya software for logo design .

 

Logos can be well designed in Adobe Illustrator.

 

I think most people don't realize just how good Corel Draw has been all along - I'm not sure about CS4, I think they may have finally added it, but all along Corel draw has had support for blending between two spot colours - something INCREDIBLY useful in Illustrator.

Until now, Illustrator users would have needed to have made the logo using two other pure inks, like Cyan and Magenta, blended those and then in the seperations for print, changed the ink to the two spot colours.

Corel isn't spoken about much, but it's VERY powerful, and much cheaper than Creative Suite.