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software that I could not live without is on the right. On the left
amazon.com shows their most popular software on the same subjects.
Adobe Photoshop is a pixel based program that you're probably quite familiar with. If you work in a lab, you may have their free version. It's NOT the same. The money you spend upgrading to the full version will pay off in time and frustration as soon as you learn to use the layers.
(This link takes you to Amazon where you can read reviews and find out more information.) Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are the two standards of the industry. Photoshop is used more for touching up photographs and images, where illustrator is great for drawing (expecially after you get a tablet!).
More after the sponsored links...
Adobe Illustrator 10.0 is a vector based program, and you will want to get this (or Corel) when you're ready to start creating your own digital illustrations. Photoshop is great for pushing those pixels around, but when you want to draw, you need a vector based program and a watcom tablet (below).
There seems to be a 50/50 split between illustrators using Illustrator and illustrators using Corel 11. Here's the Corel Draw review link. It seems that Corel takes longer to learn, but there are some awesome things you can do with it that are less fluid with Illustrator. I love Illustrator, but I'm actually thinking of switching over.
A wacom tablet is the best investment that I have made for peripheral hardware. Do you ever think about how differently you communicated with people before you had a computer? After you get a tablet, you'll feel the same way about drawing. I have a link below to the 9x12. That's huge. I have the 6x8, and it's a really nice size - you can see those through the link below as well.
Wacom Intuos2 Graphics Tablet (USB)
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Title: Medical Illustration
URL: http://biomedical-illustration.com
Description: Information for scientific illustrators, medical illustrators,
graphic designers that specialize in medical content, and those who
hire them.
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