Comments for NYC Graphic Designer Roberto Blake

Comment on What Adobe Creative Cloud Means For Students by ClippingPathService

ClippingPathService — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:55:42 +0000

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Comment on 9 Ways to Market Yourself in 2012 by sepideh

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Comment on Why Ad Agencies Use Illustrator Instead of Corel Draw by Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:25:23 +0000

Being able to produce a good image in Corel Draw doesn’t make it a superior program. The point was that when a higher level of work is required by designers and agencies Corel doesn’t cut it. Its not just about being able to make one good image, Corel doesn’t have the features the cross compatibility or the range of formats that illustrator does, or the ability to generate bar or pie graphs from excel data. It doesn’t fit into the work flow with InDesign or Photoshop nearly as well, and it also lack many of the features regarding typography, color meshes and 3D text and shapes.

This is even more true in Illustrator CS6 with new features like Gradient on Stroke and Image Trace (replacing Live Trace).

Comment on Why Ad Agencies Use Illustrator Instead of Corel Draw by neeraj

neeraj — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:24:11 +0000

i think coreldraw is much better than illustrator i can prove it by my illustration which i have made in coreldraw you can see them on neeraj2.blogspot.com

Comment on 5 Ways The IPad Changes Design by Roger White

Roger White — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:04:29 +0000

Hi Roberto,

Great article! I totally agree, the iPad was/is a huge game changer not only to the design community but to every sector out there, you name it mechanics, Doctors, Airlines, Education the list goes on, but at the end of the day it primarily falls back to designers to create for this still new and booming mobile device market.

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Comment on Why Ad Agencies Use Illustrator Instead of Corel Draw by GRKP

GRKP — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:29:14 +0000

I am an Adobe Illustrator but also a Corel user. At my university we learned to do things with corel, but ever since i bought a mac i just had to learn illustrator. My belief is that Ai is a much more powerful program and more professional. Sure you can create professionaly with corel too, but ai in my opinion is way more superior.

At my job we use both illustrator and corel. Everytime we have to work on corel file we just curse! Files take like ages to load, even small ones some times. A lot of times it takes like a year to copy and paste something, and very often the program crushes if your dealing with a big file.

On the other hand Ai almost never crashes, it can handle big files perfectly and just makes your job much easier. Some people say that its a complicated program but this is something i really don’t understand. How can Ai be complicating when you know how to use photoshop, it almost the same in terms of the program UI.

Some of you wrote that ai is the industry standard because of good marketing etc. That might be right but allow me to give you a bit of food for thought, if Ai wasn’t a great program would it still be alive today?

Corel is like Quark, slowly dying because it made no innovations…

Comment on Speeding Up Photoshop CS5 by David Cousens

David Cousens — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:10:33 +0000

Never noticed the efficiency indicator until now! Thanks Roberto for the helpful blog post and also thanks to James Brow for the excellent detailed instructions on how to access the efficiency indicator.

Comment on 9 Ways to Market Yourself in 2012 by Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:04:55 +0000

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Comment on 5 Secrets of Senior Designers by Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:55:17 +0000

Thanks for all the great retweets and links to this article!

Comment on Building a Photoshop (CS5) Computer by Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:21:54 +0000

I’m a fan of running AMD processors, every design pc I’ve used with Intel processors hasn’t performed nearly as well or lasted nearly as long. If you use a computer and parts recommended for gaming, your Photoshop performance is nearly guaranteed.

Comment on Building a Photoshop (CS5) Computer by Bill Clifton

Bill Clifton — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:37:45 +0000

Great info! I am ready to upgrade my desktop, possibly a Dell 8300 with the equipment stated above.
What bradn and size do you recommend for a video card. I understand some work a lot better eith PS than others.

Comment on Building a Photoshop (CS5) Computer by Chabs

Chabs — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:15:19 +0000

Hi Roberto,
Nice article, and really useful.

I’ve a few questions. Why would you partition Application Level drive? What’s the partition strategy (e.g. OS in one partition, and Application incl. PS in another)? Will this improve performance? What if I use SSD drive for Boot+Apps?
Will be really appreciative if you could answer.