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Graphic Design Software

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CausticMick

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As some of you know, I am starting a company and one thing I need to do is develop a website for it. I have the MacroMedia Suite which I'm pretty failiar with (I've used it to design several websites), but Fireworks isn't enough to create what I need in terms of graphic design. I want to create a logo for use in my website, so I thought I'd buy some software. I don't want to spend thousands on it, maybe $100. What recommendations would you have?
 
MS Paint, its free (well sorta) and you can create sweet logo's like this

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Thank you for the suggestion. I think I need a little more than MS Paint. I went to the FARK area of the website and see Photoshop there, after some EBay investigation it looks like $300 bills. The logo I want to create will be pretty intense considering I'm using it as one of my main marketing tools.
 
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Word to the wise... if you design a logo or have someone else design one, make sure to keep several file formats around. Such as, Tifs, Jpgs, EPS vector separatable images, PDF, et cetera. If you don't know what a separatable image is, whoever designs the logo ought to.

Trust me, I can't tell you how many companies I've done print work for who either don't have a good copy of their logo or only have a blurry jpg image off their website. I'm a graphics designer for a print shop, so I end up dealing with a lot of designers' work, and often end up "fixing" them!
 
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LRABuck said:
Word to the wise... if you design a logo or have someone else design one, make sure to keep several file formats around. Such as, Tifs, Jpgs, EPS vector separatable images, PDF, et cetera. If you don't know what a separatable image is, whoever designs the logo ought to.

Trust me, I can't tell you how many companies I've done print work for who either don't have a good copy of their logo or only have a blurry jpg image off their website. I'm a graphics designer for a print shop, so I end up dealing with a lot of designers' work, and often end up "fixing" them!
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Seconding that idea - what LRABuck cautions you on is absolutely right - plus get the equivalent of electronic comp sheet.

All the logos and sub-elements thereof in those file formats at different sizes and screen resolutions. Plus, the native files. Whenever I had Graphic Designers do work for me it was like pulling teeth to get the last of these, i.e. the original .psd (photoshop) or Freehand files. As long as the designer is fairly compensated for their work they should be happy to deliver these files.
 
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