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I need to create a nice looking banner and logo to put up on my website. Do you guys have any tools in mind that I could use to create it.

What about a tutorial that shows step-by-step on creating a logo.

- Quick

Hello,
If you want to create great & cool logos , use Photoshop Adobe CS3. It's an useful program that helps lot of designers to create layouts,templates and/or even logos.
And heres a tutorial. If you need more details just google it for : how to create a web 2.0 logo

I recommend design in Adobe Illustrator though, cause you never know how big your logo would be, and of course, you don't want your logo to be pixelized when resize it either to big or to small...

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I second that because in photoshop designs are pixelated while in Illustrator
it's called 'Vector Graphics' which you can resize the design as you like

I've heard about that too. I've never designed a logo before so I'll keep this suggestions in mind once I decide to make my own art ;)

The only bad thing is that Illustrator is a paid program. Do you guys know if there's a free design software out there similar to Illustrator?

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Inkscape
A vector graphics editor application released under the GNU General Public License. Its stated goal is to become a powerful graphic tool while being fully compliant with the XML, SVG and CSS standards. Has good multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts.

Ipe
A vector graphics editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format. Can process LaTeX source code and import PDF figures.

Karbon14 (formerly Kontour, which was formerly KIllustrator)
Is a vector graphics editor, part of KOffice, the KDE office suite.

NodeBox
An application for programming 2D animation and graphics in Python. It runs on Mac OS X.

OpenOffice.org Draw
Currently OpenOffice.org supports exporting to SVG format officially, though with some limitations to be resolved. It also shares many features with Desktop publishing software.

Scribus
A desktop publishing application with SVG & PDF capabilities.

Skencil (formerly Sketch)
A vector graphics editor implemented almost completely in Python. A fork of Skencil sK1 is oriented for prepress industry.

Sodipodi
A vector graphics editor intended for producing vector graphics, and be a drawing tool for artists. Development ceased in 2004, but Inkscape is based on Sodipodi.

Synfig
A 2D vector graphics and animation program intended to produce feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

Tgif
A 2-D drawing tool under X11 for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Note: has several quirks due to being developed long before many features common in many editors were standard.

Xara Xtreme for Linux
A 2D vector graphics editor created by the British software company Xara.

Xfig
A 2-D drawing tool under X11 for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Xfig saves figures in its native Fig format, but they may be converted into various formats.

ZCubes
A 2D and 3D online vector drawing and painting tool. Primarily supports IE. Firefox supported for viewing using SVG in most platforms.

Ok, that's what I call a very complete answer xD

Thanks Aziz! Will try some of them and give you a feedback later ;)

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thanks Aziz for the list. + rep.
as for the tutorials. I recommend that you try this
psdtuts.com. They are the real pros.

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