If you are interested this can be found under the tutorials section of the site. The most recent one is Photoshop 101 - Pattern fills. If you are looking to use Photoshop, I am working on a site update with tutorials for graphics. The key is to find the tool that works best for you and allows you to produce a good quality output that you can use effecientaly. In the future this could be Autocad, illustrator, flash, (insert your favorite program here), who knows. Autocad has become a very usable option over the past few releases thanks to full color fills, custom colors, pantone, gradient fills, and of course the old express tool 'superhatch' (improve this just a bit and add it would be great). While it would be nice to do this all in one vector based (.dwg linkable?) program I have not found the end all beat all product yet. There are times when other products are more useful, this depends on the output media needed, cost and of course time constraints. Sometimes this involves 'faking' a rendering for elevations/floor plans, adjusting the ouput from a rendering, and other times it is just to show a before/after of a project renovations. I stick mainly with Photoshop for tweaking colors, adding fills and other graphic controls that I cannot achieve either due to speed or other reasons in Autocad/ADT. I have not used Corel Draw so I cannot give an unbiased comparison. I wonder what is the latest trend to do such things now? >I usually use Corel draw to import Autocad drawings to do presentation Also, any sort ofĬomplex operation like a gradient fill ballooned the side of the fileīecause of these and other problems, I've since done my illustrationsīy plotting to EPS, and using both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for Really, really unstable, especially with printing. Editing things in CorelĪfter the import can be very painful, because of the way AutoCADĮntities become grouped in Corel - they have almost no relationship toĪnd, I've found that Draw 10 was a complete mess, and 11 is still However, it's still very much a one-way trip.

Nice that closed plines become closed shapes in Draw, enabling you toĮasily fill the areas by doing more pre-processing work in AUtoCAD I liked the fact that everything's still in a vector format. Version 6, importing AutoCAD drawings in a number of different ways.

I don't know if it's the latest trend I've used Corel Draw since

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