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imapiratearg:
I want to get a tablet someday soon, because I use one at work, and I mess around with it occasionally, doing little doodles and stuff.  But I can't decide what program I want to do my illustrations on when I do end up getting one.  I'm thinking just sticking with Photoshop, since I already have a copy.  But it doesn't make your lines look all nice and smooth.  I hate animating in Flash with a passion (except frame by frame stuff).  But I love to draw in it, because it smooths the lines.  That being said, I want to try Illustrator.

What do you prefer?

(I apologize if a thread like this already exists.)

iliketodraw:
I prefer flash, Illustrator has some fancy features but i couldn't do without the line smoothing/dragging etc that flash offers. It's also cheaper and doesn't need configuring like hell in order to work for you like illustrator does (at least for me anyway). I don't think I'd consider Photoshop for illustration to be honest.

Baggy:
Depends on what kind of drawing you're doing.  If you like Flash's drawing then I'd say go with Illustrator, which I honestly think is better at vector drawing than Flash, though that could just be because I learned illustrator first.  Photoshop is good if you are doing things where you don't want very defined lines, because it is much better for blending and such.  I think with Flash becoming part of the creative suite that in CS3 you can pretty easily bring illustrator drawings into flash to animate.  Not sure yet, I need to try it out still.

jeph:
Wouldn't it make more sense to just learn how to draw smooth lines in Photoshop? That's what I did.

imapiratearg:
Yeah.  I will.  Eventually.

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