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Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen
I'm not familiar with SAI, but as for Photoshop, you'd probably be better off using Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, or something similar. While Photoshop uses pixels, both Illustrator and InDesign use vectors, meaning that what you make is infinitely scalable - we use the exact same file for our pit banner and buttons. To answer your questions, save them in a vector format (.ai for Illustrator and .indd for InDesign), and you don't need to worry about how big to save them - with vectors, it doesn't matter.
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Once you learn to work with vector graphics, they also make a lot of things way easier; going back and modifying stuff you did in the past is a lot simpler. If you don't want to/can't pay for Illustrator,
Inkskape is a pretty good free, open source vector graphics program; I don't personally have a ton of experience with it, but from what I've heard it can do just about everything that you'd probably need from it. Unfortunately as far as I'm aware there isn't any free software that comes close to being able to replace InDesign, not that InDesign would really be necessary for buttons (InDesign is best for out flyers, pamphlets, books, posters, documents, etc. whereas Illustrator is best for logos and other graphics).