What tools do you use?

What tools do you use to create graphic content?
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[Nonactiveuser8999]

I am not such a good designer but all the time I use Photoshop

I like it because there many nice tutorials over the internet for photoshop.

[OldDarkstarAccount]

I use Photoshop , I used from the start and now it`s easy to work with it. I also like Corel but I only do design elements ( shapes of people , cars , houses etc ) using black.

[rakib]

I think most of the people use adobe tools.

I remember the times when Paint Shop Pro was the best way to go.
The first version I used was 2 or 3 in the early 90s on Windows 3.11.

[temi]

I use paint shop too, whatever happend to paintshop?

Corel bought it. Now the version number is 11.
I stopped using it when I first used Photoshop.

[temi]

Ahh I see. There was a package about the same time called Aldus Pagemaker, I remeber I went on a two week course on how to use pagemaker to layout pages for printing

Yeah. Adobe bought that one.

Actually when I look back there were so many software developers producing different apps. And now, all those apps were bought by software giants.

[temi]

That is the nature of the beast Melky, if you do not buy them out quicly the will become a Google and bite you in the bum like Microsoft and Yahoo are experiencing now.
MS did actually try to buy Google but the boys will not sell to MS, I don't know if Yahoo tried to buy them too.

I remeber MS bought Hotmail for a few thousand pounds back them so its in your business interest to buy or invest in a promising business in your filed that could one day become a rival