5.2. Creating Images
Many graphic editing packages and applications are available to create images for your Web documents. This section lists a few of the more popular solutions.
5.2.1. Commercial Applications
Several commercial editing applications can be purchased to create and edit graphic images:
Adobe Photoshop—Known for its high-end feature set, Adobe Photoshop is the extreme top end of graphic editing products. Its numerous features, large number of add-ons, and huge install base are among its benefits; its large price tag is among its deficits.
Adobe Illustrator—Another Adobe product, Illustrator, is known for its vector editing abilities. Its native editing of Postscript-compatible files is one of its benefits, though it also is fairly expensive and doesn't handle raster graphic formats as well.
JASC Software Paint Shop Pro—Paint Shop Pro has been a contender for second place in the graphic editor championships. However, its latest versions all but put it in the same class as Adobe's products. Its ability to handle both vector and raster graphics and its compatibility with many Photoshop add-ons mean that Paint Shop Pro can handle almost any task.
Macromedia Freehand and Fireworks—Although known mainly for its Flash and Director products, Macromedia has its own suite of graphic editing programs as well. Of those products, Freehand and Fireworks are of particular note. Freehand is similar to Adobe's Illustrator product, excelling in editing vector graphics. Fireworks, by ...
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