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Signlab VS Illustrator
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phototec
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I agree with Wayne's statement above, I like a Illustrator and have been using it since 1988. You will find a lot of debate on here about which design software is better, but I stated in the design side of graphics before I got into the SIGN business, and the industry standard for me as a designer at Texas Instruments, Dell computers, and the State of Texas was Illustrator. Illustrator has a steep learning curve, but when you lean it, you can do some awesome design work. And I guess you can say that about Corel also.
I think for the folks who where NOT in the design end of graphics, but more focused on signs, SL was created to fit what was needed for the sign industry and allow people to create designs. I have a friend who NEVER work as a designer, he started making T-shirts in his garage and then later signs, SL has worked well for him and helped him grow his sign business, he always said it is pretty easy, and Illy was hard for him to learn.
OldPaint
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SIGN-LAB is a enhanced COREL DRAW. if you use corel sign lab is an easy transition. it is geared more for "sign design" and has many great features .........better then corel or illy. in my 20 years of doing signs on computers, it all comes down to what youre the most PROFICIENT with. i have used SIGN-LAB, FLEXI, SIGN WIZARD, PRO CUT VINYL EXPRESS.......and corel is my comfort program.
JMPrinting
New Member
I've dabbled in a few, my choice is Corel. I use it for signs, wraps and lettering, business cards, logo design and screen printing
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Why do you come here? You contribute absolutely nothing but a rude attitude.
Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
As an observation, you have been on Signs101 for 9 years,
what have you been using the whole time?
Do you design more than signs?
Are you self taught in design software?
If it's Signlab, and you have not learned it yet, I would
think any software where you can get online or classroom
setting would be best. I'm thinking Illustrator (or Corel) have
an edge on Signlab (or any sign software for that matter)
I started as a traditional graphic designer (pre-computer)
and taught myself software, but watching fellow designers
fly through Illustrator (or Corel) can speed up your skills very
fast.
We use Illustrator because we just design and only design... it
works with any format we need, it will easily import into any
sign software, it also works better with our workflow as we also use
Photoshop and InDesign.
what have you been using the whole time?
Do you design more than signs?
Are you self taught in design software?
If it's Signlab, and you have not learned it yet, I would
think any software where you can get online or classroom
setting would be best. I'm thinking Illustrator (or Corel) have
an edge on Signlab (or any sign software for that matter)
I started as a traditional graphic designer (pre-computer)
and taught myself software, but watching fellow designers
fly through Illustrator (or Corel) can speed up your skills very
fast.
We use Illustrator because we just design and only design... it
works with any format we need, it will easily import into any
sign software, it also works better with our workflow as we also use
Photoshop and InDesign.
You have the blind confidence that comes with ignorance.
I've been using Signlab since it was a DOS program.
It's great for some things but every once in awhile you'll go...damn, I wish it would___________. But I bet every program has this issue.
Can you undock the control panel that is at the top left that changes depending upon the feature selected?
Zendavor Signs
Mmmmm....signs
I used CD for many years, this was one of my big beefs with it. New versions were always very unpredictable, and it took a couple service packs to get it stable. We switched to Adobe a few years ago and I can't imagine going back. I'm not saying illy is perfect. Consider the benefit of using the same design software that almost every design or marketing firm uses. Good luck asking for CD format, and transferring files between the two programs is not pretty. In our experience, ripping files has gone much smoother too.
gabagoo
New Member
I am a Signlab user since it was DOS as well... I have Flexi and Gerber Omega as well.
If I were to start all over again I would definitely learn Illy and Signlab so that I had the best of what each offers me.
So many files we get are designed in Illustrator and Signlab can't handle many of the files the way they were created, forcing me to have the designer here open them in Illustrator and saving them as an eps file that I can open properly. Masking and clipping paths seem to make Signlab completely useless with many files.
If I were to start all over again I would definitely learn Illy and Signlab so that I had the best of what each offers me.
So many files we get are designed in Illustrator and Signlab can't handle many of the files the way they were created, forcing me to have the designer here open them in Illustrator and saving them as an eps file that I can open properly. Masking and clipping paths seem to make Signlab completely useless with many files.
