[lolwut]

Hi all. What tools do you guys use for designing logo's? I'm trying to win some surfing vouchers (♥♥♥ for surfing) and the comptetion is designing a logo for a popular brand so any recommended sites would helps loads .

thanks in advance .

[|Erasmus|]

Never done anything remotely serious, inkscape is okay for that sort of thing (and free).

http://inkscape.org/

[ZiggyD]

Photoshop CS5 is the way to go. You can do pretty much anything with it limited only by how much work you put into it and how well you can use the tools. There are tons of good tutes on YouTube and designing basic logos is pretty low on the difficulty curve.

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	lolwut:	Ziggy :)
	Maynarde:	CS5 ftw

[iMSystem]

Photoshop hands down, don't do logo shit on a 3rd party website as you won't be able to control the Image properties and there might be hidden shit on your pics.

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	ZiggyD:	Thats another very good reason I didn't think of.
	lolwut:	thanks for helping

[lolwut]

ok thanks guys
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[breadfan]

GiMP is one of the leading open source options as well. I use it for my minor tasks here and there, my friend's opinion is that it is a perfectly acceptable substitute for photoshop while at work, but at home he prefers photoshop.

[Kalikah]

Photoshop, and Illustrator for vectorizing. Indesign if it's for print.

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Maynarde:

I love vectorizing

[nirvAnA]

paint.net

totally free, very lightweight, (lol at photoshop loading times) all the key basic stuff you need are there. more adv users would use photoshop i guess but paint.net should work for more than 90% of aspiring designers.

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faithHunter:

+1 For being a fellow paint.net user and helping out.

[Meatex]

I would say that adobe products are pretty much essential if you are serious / wanting to get into design
Otherwise as far as logos go, for fun or things, then nirvana's suggestion has everything you need unless you are looking to make some complex logos

[Aean(:]

cinema 4d. too adv?

[Meatex]

lol don't need any huge 3d package like cinema 4d, 3dsmax, maya etc unless you want to do advanced animated 3d work.
Pretty sure all those packages aren't really worth the investment until you are actually making money doing design or are super serious.
Blender 3d is a good free 3d application though
And Zbrush is THE 3d sculpting software to use (but also pricey)

For logos though you will almost never need a true 3d package - I use after effects for motion graphics but if you don't want animation then basically anything that can do text and custom shapes is going to be fine for almost all logos

[Doctor]

depends on the concept of logo ur designing , photoshop is good , illustrator also good , when is the deadline of the competition ? i'll help you come out with something if u want

[faithHunter]

I personally use Paint.NET for most sorts of image editing. But if you can get your hands on Photoshop, AND learn its complex features (IMHO, at least), it would really help out a lot more than Paint.NET, but Paint.NET has a simpler interface and is easier to use IMO.

[cheekyduck]

logos should be made in Illustrator.
a logo should be vector. anything else is unprofessional and impossible to work with late on.

[VB_davidbloop]

I do all my logo work in Illustrator