Help on drawing software

[Galactik]

I am drawing my own vinyl designs to place on my shells, on the outside, as well as on the inside to use as paint masks. I drew a bunch of ideas up on paper and now want to draw them on my comp and print them off.

I have access to three programs, Photoshop, AutoCAD and Corel Draw.

Can anyone recommend which one would be best suited for this application?

Thanx.

[pinolelst]

photoshop or coreldraw will be the simplest.Photoshop being my preference.Easiest thing to do is scan the pics into your computer and import the sketches into photoshop for use as a template using layers to draw over it.

Hope this helps
Peace

[Phil Manro]

I use Corel Draw and like it a lot. It also works with most vinyl cutting machines if you ever end up investing in one.

However, I think I am in the minority, I hear most people using photoshop for design these days. I have stuck with Corel because I learned it back in the 90s when it was more popular and I don't want to re-invest time learning a new program. Having said that, if you need to learn something, Photoshop seems to be the leader these days and you may want to go that route.

Phil

[acidburn]

the guys who makes custom decals for me uses corel draw. for some reason, he's having a hard time using my autocad .dwg files.

[Phil Manro]

pinolelst - that's a cool trick. Do you end up with a vector image in photoshop that you can manipulate?

Phil

[OutFrontFrames]

AutoCAd is by far the easiest to use and import/export from.. I use it everyday. If ya need any pointers or help. Shoot me an email.
wesbrown@outfrontframes.com
Wes Brown
Out Front Frames
http://www.outfrontframes.com

[Galactik]

I used AutoCAD for many years, I took an Engineering Design and Drafting at Univeristy and my wife does Civil Engineering. I was very fluent with AutoCAD, but havent used it for a while.

Thanx for all the input, it is greatly appreciated. I think I will play with Photoshop since I have used it for some web design work.

Again, thanx.

[noahrc]

Easiest way to get an autocad drawing into CorelDraw is to export the drawing out of autocad as a (.dxf) file. Corel seems to like that type of file other than the (.dwg) file.

at the command prompt type: dxfout

and it will create the file in .dxf format.