# The Design Process. Photoshop or Illustrator? **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [March 11, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-design-process-photoshop-or-illustrator/45208 "2004-03-11T23:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gragland](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/gragland/32/422_2.png) [@gragland](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gragland)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-design-process-photoshop-or-illustrator/45208/1 "2004-03-11T23:52:54Z")
Would it be wise to design my site layout in illustrator instead of photoshop? I have never used illustrator cs before, but am I correct in thinking that i could design my site in illustrator and then import it into flash and in flash be able manipulate each part of the design (buttons, header, text etc…)? Or maybe i should just design it in Flash (but i find the pen tool pretty lacking, and was thinking that illustrator might be better). And, although illustrator is a vector program, can i import bitmap images into it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-design-process-photoshop-or-illustrator/45208/2 "2004-03-13T00:39:25Z")
i use Photoshop to make a nd design the layout for the site as a whole… for the more detailed parts, i use CorelDraw for the shapes and other stuff and then copy the vector to photoshop… CorelDraw is pretty powerful when it comes to logos and complicated shapes… i mean the pen tools of flash doesn’t even come close to that of coreldraws (IMHO) 🙂 i have never used Adobe’s Illustrator :-/ dunno why… just got comfortable with Photoshop and CorelDraw thru the years…