# LOGO design?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 21, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591 "2005-09-21T20:45:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/1 "2005-09-21T20:45:40Z")
I want to start working on a logo to have some vinyl cut because I don’t feel like spending $75/hr for someone to design me something. I have some time and would like to do it myself. I know how to use Photoshop reasonable well, but is there a better program I should use or is there a program that is more acceptable to a vinyl graphics place. I have Illustrator, Corel, and the whole studio MX suite.
Thanks
JZ
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### Author:  [@catalyst](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/catalyst)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/2 "2005-09-22T05:55:37Z")
You want to use a vector based program (like illustrator) so you can make the logo any size.
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### Author:  [@PumiceT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PumiceT)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/3 "2005-09-22T06:02:11Z")
I prefer Corel, just because that’s how I learned. I feel the node-editing is easier to understand how you’re effecting a curve. I don’t like the pen editing in Illustrator and Photoshop.
> [@catalyst](#):
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> You want to use a vector based program (like illustrator) so you can make the logo any size.
:word: Don’t use Photoshop, at least not for your final logo design. You can take your logo into Photoshop to spice it up for a Web site or something, but don’t consider a logo made in Photoshop to be “done.” It won’t be able to be sent for vinyl cutting, and it won’t scale nicely.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/4 "2005-09-22T06:08:29Z")
You gonna pay someone here?
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### Author:  [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/5 "2005-09-22T06:10:08Z")
illistrator is good for that shit…i am a good hand drawer if u want some shit…i wotn charge
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### Author:  [@RedrRocket](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedrRocket)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/6 "2005-09-22T12:18:58Z")
> [@MaximaSE98](#):
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> illistrator is good for that shit…i am a good hand drawer if u want some shit…i wotn charge
just not a very good speller eh. Kick it old school and hand draw a logo. that does not get done very often anymore.
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### Author:  [@dozr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dozr)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/7 "2005-09-22T12:24:46Z")
Pretty much everything I do is handdrawn before it gets to photoshop.
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### Author:  [@jay\_g](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jay_g)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/8 "2005-09-22T13:18:20Z")
werd t-nail sketches.
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### Author:  [@slowtalon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowtalon)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/9 "2005-09-22T13:22:38Z")
CAD nukka 3d an shit.
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### Author:  [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/10 "2005-09-22T13:28:53Z")
> [@slowtalon](#):
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> CAD nukka 3d an shit.
naaaaa…CAD isnt good for that type of stuff…it can be done of course…but u can get way better effects on a Graphic design program such as illustrator…or my hand drawings…
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/11 "2005-09-22T13:31:09Z")
my father uses signlab, corel, photoshop, and illustrator.
they seem to get the job done.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/12 "2005-09-22T13:40:34Z")
:tup: Illustrator
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/13 "2005-09-22T17:13:01Z")
> [@Daddie](#):
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> You gonna pay someone here?
To cut the vinyl or design the graphic, I was asking cause I would like to fart around with it myself cause only I know what I really want. I have most of these programs just trying to figure out which is the best to use. Also what is vector based, and what is photoshop?
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### Author:  [@PumiceT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PumiceT)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/logo-design/2591/14 "2005-09-22T19:55:09Z")
Photoshop is raster (little pixels or dots). Vector is when you create curves and points, like in Illustrator, Corel Draw, and Freehand (maybe some others).