At my new job I'm the sole designer on the team. So despite the fact that I'm primarily an interaction/information designer, I’ve also had to wear the “graphic designer” hat too.I'm mostly a cut and paste, modify & tweak designer. I take an existing piece of art and modify it for my purposes. That's why I think VectorMagic is so great.
You can upload anystandard bitmapped image and it will turn it into a vector file. The vector file is then more easily tweaked, re-colored, scaled and—most importantly—rendered with a transparent background.
In the example I posted, you can see how I took a typical logo off the web and turned it into a vector file. Try it out yourself; you'll be amazed.
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