Design Software.

While it's certainly true that design software doesn't make a great designer, it's also true that a great designer will need access to the latest tools of the trade. Here's some design software resources and destinations. Have a font related website, blog or service you'd like us to feature? Tell us about it here.

Design Software Listings
Browse for the latest in design software at Amazon.

Adobe
Creators of the design software (Illustrator, Photoshop) used by The Logo Factory designers.

Adobe Illustrator CS (WIn)
Adobe Illustrator CS software is an essential tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the Web, and in any other medium. Powerful new features, including 3D graphics effects, character and paragraph styles, and innovative text composition controls, deliver indispensable design options to help you explore your creative vision. And enhanced support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), expanded print capabilities, faster performance, and tight integration with other Adobe products as well as Microsoft Office make it easier than ever to efficiently publish your artwork anywhere.

Adobe Illustrator CS (Mac OS X)
Adobe Illustrator CS2 is the latest (April 2005) release of Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software. Illustrator CS2 gives designers new creative freedom so they can realize ideas quickly and powerfully. Users can instantly convert bitmaps to vector artwork with Live Trace, paint intuitively with Live Paint and save time with the new context-sensitive Control Palette and optimized workspaces. Plus, tight integration with other software, both within the new Adobe Creative Suite 2 and with other applications, lets designers produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the Web, and mobile devices TLF Staff Pick.

Adobe Photoshop (Win)
Photoshop CS2 is the new Professional standard in Desktop Digital imaging. Its groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. With more creative options, a more custom-fit Photoshop for the way you work, and more efficient File handling, you can stretch your imagination and let the ideas flow. Advanced noise reduction for high-ISO shooting plus JPEG artifact reduction 32-Bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support Customizable workspaces and menus for easier access to task-based presets and custom menus Spot Healing Brush retouches in a single click One-click red-eye correction lets you set pupil size and darkening level.

Adobe Photoshop (Mac OS X)
Adobe Photoshop CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard and leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line, delivers more of what you crave. Groundbreaking technology helps you create and enhance images with extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with exceptionally smooth editing, processing, and file handling, there’s no slowing you down. Bring your images to life with Photoshop CS2. TLF Staff Pick.

Apple
Manufacturer of our hardware systems, computers. Also, creators of Ipod, something which no late night designer should be without.

Electric Rain
Manufacturers of Swift 3D, the Flash based 3D animation software that is utilized in many of our Flash logo animations.

Design Software related pages on our website

Staff Logo Software Picks
We often get asked by designers and those interested in do it yourself logo design, what software we use at the 'shop'. So we decided to put together a 'what's-what' list of the design, animation and management software we use in the day to day operation of The Logo Factory..

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