I use Illustrator for 397's new graphics. Interactive-wise I would only use Flash if I needed a quick little application. From a programmers view Flash is actually nice, we don't need to worry about writing the code to make the UI and a lot of the nasty UI stuff is taken care of. I use it a lot for testing algorithms. I would never use it as a navigational portion of the site because some people don't allow Flash files to open.
On the topic of Photoshop, I use it on my photos. Mostly touching up the photos and adjusting white balance. For photographs you won't find much better things (at least not in the Adobe family) but it lacks in the proper drawing tools to be good at logo creation.
Obviously they are expensive, the alternatives of GIMP and Inkscape seem quite useable to me. I don't use them because I learned Photoshop and Illustrator in school.
I don't do too much web development for robotics but I use Dreamweaver just for highlighting and code completion. And also because I had to learn it in school.
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Originally Posted by T2002 Webmaster
it's good to see someone using UE pro! i love Ultra Edit, and the gimp, but (cheapo alert) don't have the money to buy photoshop or illustrator to edit vector graphics. I use inkscape for most Vectors, but some of my team's sponsors give them to us in .eps, and i don't know any free programs that open .eps files..
any ideas?
thanks
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Does it seem like these companies would keep giving you different things in .eps format or is it sort of a one time problem? If it is only going to happen once I would just go download a trial version of Illustrator and convert them to something you can read. Otherwise, on my Macbook Pro I was able to open it one I created using Preview. Otherwise, try Inkscape, I haven't used it but it sounds like it can open .eps files.
If all else fails, talk to the company to get the file in a different format.