Adobe Illustrator in web design

[administrator]

Hi,

 

Recently a friend of mine (Napo) wrote up a quick tutorial on using Adobe Illustrator to mock up a web page. To be honest, I was a little surprised at that because from my experience, everyone used Photoshop.

 

.. Napo though, prefers Illustrator!

 

 

Anyway, I was just wondering how many of you use Illustrator in your web design work - whether it be a complete page layout or simply creating graphics for your web pages?

 

Stefan

[virtual]

I think it is a question of personal preference but also depends if the design is going to be used in Print. For logos I use Illustrator because it can easily be translated into business cards, letterheads, flyers etc.

For web design mockups for clients I use Photoshop, which I am more comfortable with, unless I know they are going to need the whole design package in which case I use both.

[falkencreative]

I used to do some layouts in Illustrator... However, I did find it was hard to get the pixel precision I needed using Illustrator, and slicing out the final images using Illustrator was more difficult. I'm entirely Photoshop based now.