Vector is the preferred artwork for Design Shop. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol Brussel To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:22 AM Subject: [amayausers.com] using the mac Carol & Susan... do you also do your artwork and designing on your mac and then slide it over to the Design Shop side? I run Macromedia Freehand and Photoshop...usually just end up with vector lineart or I think jpg is what Design shop likes but 95% of my work is vector. Could easily add another mac to the line up here-putting a new minimac (V 10.6) on line as soon as I get a monitor adaptor and I'm wondering if that would run the windows you talk about... would be so much easier to run design shop over here while I'm doing artwork.. Roland Hi Roland, this leads me to my next question - so far I don't do any designing or artwork, when I need something done I just get my child to do it. He just graduated from art school in the spring (industrial design, anyone have a job for him?) so he is a real genius with illustrator and all the other programs. However, I know he won't be living in the basement forever, so my question is which program to use. I know a lot of people use Corel Draw, however, since he uses illustrator and can start teaching me to use it before he heads on to his adult life, I figure that's the one for me to use. So now please share with me everyone, your experiences with art programs to use with DS. I just discovered yesterday when trying to use autodigitize (basically worthless as far as I can tell) that you can click on a button to edit your artwork (using whatever program you have) while in the autodigitizing mode. This made me reflect on losing my "in house designer" one of these days. Carol Brussel Denver