Graphic Design

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Hey guy's, I have Photoshop CC but i'm not good with it, however I was wondering if there was a program out there that had quick "plug ins" for either Photoshop or another program for cheap, i'm looking to get better with graphics but right now I just need a quick fix for logo's and things like that. Thanks in advance@!! :D
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CC web Image Studio. But, I mainly use paint shop pro because I have been using it forever and am comfortable with it. And at first it took me forever to learn how to use it by trial and error and with no help.
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Matt, you have Corel Draw, if I remember correctly. If that logo is based on a drawing, you should be able to fix it there. Otherwise, do as Greg says.
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Matt, with CorelDraw you have everything you need for your graphics. Corel PhotoPaint is for bitmaps and photo editing, CorelDraw is for vector graphics. You can easily go back & forth between them to add photos, etc. into your Draw files.
Unfortunately, there are no magic plug-ins to make you better at it... although thousands of plug-ins exist for Corel (and Photoshop), you still need to know how to use the program first if you're going to get anything done. ;)
Source of an overwhelming amount of plug-ins add-ons and tutorials for CorelDraw:
http://www.unleash.com/
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I use Corel and Photoshop mainly, but I want to play more with CC web Image Studio! :)
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Gimp is a no-cost, quite generally useful image creation & manipulation program. If you Google it, you'll find a lot of explanation, examples and no-cost tutorials out there on the Web.

Besides its being free (Did I remember to say that it's FREE?), Gimp runs on both Windows and Linux.
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Matt, I still don't get why you don't just use what you already have. Between Corel Draw and Photoshop, you have more than enough tools to create any sort of graphic. ;)
Here's a few thousand shapes for Photoshop - but you still need to know how to use PS:
http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/psshapes.htm
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I've used CorelDraw for many years, as well as Paintshop Pro, PhotoImpact for some projects, and my current favorite - Xara Designer Pro X9 (actually been using Xara stuff since v1), and I agree with the others in the thread noting that your toolset can certainly tackle the tasks you describe. But as noted, the don't do the design work for you, so you'd need to learn at least a good part of the tools as well a graphic design basics.

Based on your post, though, I'm wondering if perhaps you weren't looking for a basic tool that is more of a hand-holding logo design tool. There are a few on the market that may fit your needs. I can't speak to their merits or quality, but they might be worth exploring for what you have in mind. A couple to explore might include:

You might also want to browse sites like this:
http://goanimate.com/video-maker-tips/6 … -software/


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