Question for all artists out there!

DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
edited November -1 in Art, Graphics, Music and Sound
Ok, so I have all the adobe programs. I use illustrator about 96% of the time over photoshop. But I see the kinds of things some people do with photoshop. What is better to use for cartoony looking art? Like I said I have been using illustrator for about 2 years now. I just want to know should I give photoshop a try for that kind of art?
DL

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  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    You can use Photoshop for that, absolutely. But Illustrator will have a little cleaner image, even though the vector gets converted to bitmap. When I use Photoshop for images, I always make the image bigger than what it needs to be so that it looks even better when you size it down.

    I use Illustrator for main characters and Photoshop for backgrounds and clouds and what have you.
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  • frariofrario Member Posts: 164
    You can do a lot with both. Surely gradients, patterns, realistic details or dirty feels are managed better with Ps. But I hate the pen tool usage in Ps for example, so I always keep them both open at the same time.
  • TouchTiltGamesTouchTiltGames Member Posts: 1,162
    Yep both are good for the cartoony look but AI is better, plus it's a vector app mainly so scaling is dead easy. You can of course bring your work from AI into PS and vise versa too.
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    yah. I know illustrator very well. Just not that familiar with photoshop anymore.
    DL
  • gamecremegamecreme Member Posts: 55
    I mainly use photoshop for all screen related artwork, unless I am porting element to flash and need to use vector for loading then I will use illustrator (or I am doing printing)
    I had done a realistic drawing on a bike with illustrator, and it took me 2-3 days to complete.
    If I do this same step in photoshop, it will only take me around 1day.
    The mask and effect that I can control in photoshop are just quick

    Specially if you are going forward to animation and pixel perfect for your artwork in GameSalad, definitely you will need photoshop. If not, then maybe illustrator + flash(which handle the animate part for you)

    But there's a lot of debate from the net, arguing illustrator over photoshop. I think is just a working habbit. I loved both, they offer different sets of technology.

    Vincent
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    totally agree. How come when I port images to flash from illustrator it says cannot use the bone tool on a bitmap?
    DL
  • gamecremegamecreme Member Posts: 55
    from your illustrator file, does it contain fancy stuff like transparency or masks, highlights? flash can't bone complicated stuff.
    and it can't bone bitmap.
    You may want to use photoshop for that import your art work to photoshop(cs5) and go to Edit>Puppet Warp
    For small animation as like 40x40 px, I think this is good enough, even if photoshop blur the image a bit.
    But in this size within game play, no one can really tell.
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