>>595351If you get to know a program and put enough time into something, you won't lose any results and produce a pretty good looking image. If you've hung around and seen some other vector work you'd see what I mean. It takes some time and patience but the results are satisfying.
I've been using the Adobe platform for a few years, I'm experienced with other software platforms as well (I'm an animator) I knew right away what you used to vector and a lot of other people will too. If it works for you that's great (honestly), but a lot of people will just give you a hard time because "that way is for newfags lololol".
It just comes down to the fact that you really can get better results doing some tracing manually than using stuff like vector magic or live trace. Something like vector magic overworks the image and makes it look like garbage because it tries to compensate for color differences and other imperfections, mostly because of image quality, but that's my take on it.
check these pages out for an idea, do a search and you'll come up with a lot more info.
http://www.inkscape.org/http://www.inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.htmlhttp://www.inkscape.org/doc/advanced/tutorial-advanced.htmlInkscape is good because it's a small program and the layout is pretty simple. Stuff like Illustrator might have a little too much going on if all you want to do is vector imaging. Adobe still makes a fine product though, there's nothing wrong with either program.
/rant