[Velocity211]

I just borrowed Adobe CS2 from my brother, I know how to use most of the apps except for Imageready and Illustrator. What is the difference between them? I want to design some logos for my new site and dunno which one to use.

[Westbo]

Originally Posted by Velocity211

I just borrowed Adobe CS2 from my brother, I know how to use most of the apps except for Imageready and Illustrator. What is the difference between them? I want to design some logos for my new site and dunno which one to use.

Illustrator is a vector based rendering program. ImageReady is primarily used to format and optimize graphics and images for the web. Rasterized images are usually imported into ImageReady from Photoshop.

Illustrator is commonly used for logo designing. The art is infinitely scalable.The designs can be exported from Illustrator to Photoshop in a variety of formats and resolutions. From Photoshop, the logos can then be transferred into ImageReady, converted into GIF or JPG and optimized. Although Photoshop offers a great variety of effects and rendering techniques, designs are rasterized which will limit their resizing capablilites.

If you decide to use Photoshop, make the original designs at least 200% larger than the largest usage size you anticipate. I recommend the resolution be MINIMALLY 300dpi. Sizes and dpis can later be reduced not enlarged.

If your design is primarily for the web, use RGB colors that are "web safe". Both Illustrator and Photoshop have web safe color palletes. Many CMYK and Pantone colors DO NOT translate to the web. Many RGB colors do not translate to CMYK as well.

[drmcnutt]

For logo building stick with Illustrator. Imageready is for web oriented work like animations and optimization of web images. If you have a clean logo Illustrator will do wonders for you once you pass the learning curve.

[godzookie2k]

the only useful one is illustrator.

[Thorzdad]

Imageready is handy for optimizing art for the web. It allows you to play with different parameters in order to get a good balance between file size and image quality. The "Save for Web" function in both Photoshop and Illustrator use ImageReady.