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All our design work is done using illy and photoshop cs5. We use Flexi 7.6 to rip files to our large format and a version of sign lab to run the cnc.
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
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Most sign designs begin in Gerber Omega 3.3 (I think that's the version).
Then I do other stuff in Corel X3. I also have Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium which include Photoshop, Illustrator, Premium Pro (video), and a bunch of other stuff for video.
The ShopBot is run off Aspire 3.5.
There are some other software programs for converting video and sound.
With all that, I can understand and operate about .002% of it.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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SignWizard 6 ...For layout and design Corel x4 ...For design, special effects. digital print etc. Xara 7 for website building Xara 3D6 for 3D and 3D animations Aspire 2.5 for CNC routing
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7404 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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A current version of CorelDraw and a Roland cutter was all I needed!!!!
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In our shop I use PhotoShop, Illustrator CS4 and now EnRoute 5 for routing.
I'm playing with Mudbox and will soon jump to a permanent version for generating 3D sculpting files.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Im a flexi and illustrator guy also. I love flexi while other loathe it. Its all about what you can use I suppose. Flexi is cool but it will never do what illy can. makes for some great art
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Made me wonder, with most on here proficient in four or five major pieces of software, what would we be worth in the real world. Personally I think I'm underpaid in this sign game
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
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ask those WHO claim to be GRAPHIC ARTISTS, most of whom cant draw a stick figure)))))) iam trained and worked as a DRAFTSMAN......and iam still trying to figure out how to use AUTOCAD 2000. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE anyone got this one down pat???
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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We use CorelX5 for pretty much everything from design to plotting vinyl (you can plot out of corel using the "print" command). I use Roland VersaWorks to send things to our printer, but it's a pretty simple program. Sometimes Joe will use a program called Poser to create 3D models for designs.
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Hiya Diane, Before I went out on my own, I mainly used sign industry specific software - Gerber, Signlab, etc. and always used both Corel and Photoshop as backups. Now that I'm on my own, I am (almost) exclusively Corel. I still keep an old copy of Illustrator and Photoshop as backup though. When it comes to 3D routing, I send a 2D file to to my supplier and they convert it accordingly.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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