I need to make a new logo for my site, and was wondering if there is a good sofware that is professional and easy.
Well, I'd just say PhotoShop, but depending on your experience, it might not fulfill the "easy" criteria...
i really doubt there is such a thing as a software for automatic logo creation. unless you are ok with with some cheesy effect applied to your site's name.
Illustrator is a better application than Photoshop for logo's IMO because it's vector based rather than pixel.
I have to go with Shawn here - once again Illustrator is sublime... and it helps a lot to start dating design students Seriously, there's usually a good barter trade-off between the designer helping you out a little with a logo, and you helping out a little with some code work on her/his website No money needs to be involved there.
Doesn't anyone use Fireworks for logo creation? I think fireworks is very easy for simple textbased logos.
Agree on that one, especially for doing logos for websites. You can do some quite tricky stuff in FW too, here's one I did earlier ... And with Fireworks' vector handling you can scale up the images as was mentioned... did a job with a web logo a few months back where the client wanted the 150x100 logo to be on a 4' x 3' sign - try doing that with a bitmap LOL Anyway, yeah... agree with DP and Guy G too Illustrator is good Freehand if you wanna stay in the MacroMedia fold
Mhh, I always was interested in a vector illustrating program.... I think I'm gonna give this "Illustrator" a try Thanks guys
Googled > free logo maker > and found this http://www.grsites.com/logo/ with 5000 plus free backgrounds........ http://www.grsites.com/textures/ If you are into do it yourself, simple, online, and free maybe this will work. ps you can also go all text for your logo http://www.mandarindesign.com/troops.html#puretextbanner1
Basically yeah. Vector graphics are scalable paths with whatever other data they 'encode' into them, so a vector circle has the equation in it e.g. the radius and centre-point E.G. draw a 4x4 circle as a vector and a bitmap - then blow it up to 40x40 - the vector circle actually is a circle, the bitmap becomes a cross
LOL I don't actually know the answer to that... The FW native format of PNG holds a lot of data - layers, vectors, bitmaps, slices, transparency, buttons and all their states (e.g. - up, over, down + links etc) so it *can* be a lot of stuff - but the optimisation settings in FW are excellent to drop exported graphics to the levels you need
Anyone ever use AAA logo creator? I just downloaded the trial, and it is pretty sweet. To bad you have to to buy it to use the logos.
It depends on the complexity of the graphic... if it's simple (like most logos are), then yes... generally they are smaller. But the real advantage is infinite scalability with the vector graphics. Good for printing/publishing. You could scale it up to a billboard size without it becoming pixelated/blocky.