Vector Graphics software

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i used Microsoft Expression Graphics Designer to make a logo for software base (the site i own). this is it Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
i do not think i can use this on my site. so i need a vector tool to re make it. if not vector then raster. if anybody knows of a program that can do that for free or cheep can you please reply. i do not have the money to by photoshop.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What do you want to use the image for? It looks like a jpg . . . what more do you need for display on the web?

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The link for the image is bad. I keep getting nothing or 'problem loading page'.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You can download a 30 trial version of Adobe Illustrator CS2 for free via their web site.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it was made using Microsoft Expression Graphics Designer CTP i do not think i can use a program that is not released yet and going to cost money to make somthing.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it is illegal to use photoshop cs2 TRIAL to make somthing that i am going to use commercially.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"The link for the image is bad. I keep getting nothing or 'problem loading page'."
it works for me. they could have bin down for a time.
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it is illegal to use photoshop cs2 TRIAL to make somthing that i am going to use commercially

I had not seen that notice under the Illustrator trial before I purchased it, sorry if it says this as well.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How about in PNG?



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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
a very simple google search could help...

here's a link to what i got when entering "free vector to raster software"

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it is not the format. Microsoft will not allow me to use there software to make somthing for my site. there software is not released yet so i can not use it.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it is not the format.

Can you use the ones I just posted? They are pngs with transparent backgrounds. Just right click and save, if you can use them. I did them in Photoshop.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm still not getting it.
You created an image using a tool that has not been released and so you can't use the image. Right?

And you can't use a image that was converted from your image?

You want to (re)create your image in another (free) software that can create vector images?

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Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If it's just a matter of 'you can't use what you create in that software until it's released'...I won't tell if you won't. I doubt they are going around checking every little logo on every site to see what software created it.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sir Zubaz, you are right!! do you know of free software that can remake this Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us ?
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think by 'commercial use' they may mean you can't make something and 'sell' it...like a skin or icon package, with their software. I don't know what the prob would be with a logo on the page.

For FREE software, have you tried GIMP Link? It's popular, good, and free.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
do you know of free software that can remake this




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Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am going to use inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/index.php?lang=
Thank you all for your help!!
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this is how it came out in inkscape Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't see any effects on it, like in your original. Can you add them with inkscape?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Citizen David Lyncheski ...I would have thought that Po's version/s in #8 would be totally legitimate to use as you are wanting to.

He recreated the image for you with a 'legal' proggy [not a restricted trial], so you are free to use it/them....

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have used Expression Graphic Designer, and used it to create images, including screenshots of the application itself which I have posted on my website, and Microsoft themselves have linked to them (well, one time anyway).

There are public newsgroups hosted by MS in which people post images created with EGD.

It sounds like a difficult to enforce, if even legal, sort of claim for Microsoft to make, that they would have some rights over what you create using their software. Expression Graphic Designer is in public Community Technology Preview release. Restrictions similar to what original poster has in mind do apply to private, unreleased builds (usually this agreement will be made in writing), but in my opinion (often quickly proven to be wrong) you can safely use the logo you made without worry or guilt.

Here is a page on a community site where they discuss a contest where they chose their logo from several submitted - the rule being they had to be created in Expression Graphic Designer.