You do not use InDesign for creating logos or editing photographs. Use InDesign for type-heavy documents such as media kits, resumes, e-books, brochures, flyers, print files, text wrapping and multiple-page documents. InDesign allows you to easily drop in photos, crop and create simple illustrations and shapes, along with page options (absent in both Photoshop and Illustrator).

Where Photoshop and Illustrator are distinctly different, InDesign plays nice with both pieces of software. It’s also easy to adjust Illustrator documents and specs. I use Illustrator for Notecards and Business cards because I’m so familiar with the platform that I prefer it over InDesign. Do not use Illustrator for any photo-based or text-heavy documents. Use Illustrator for logos, patterns, and icons. With Illustrator, you can create graphics that are crisp in clean no matter how you scale. For most of my studio work, I use Illustrator. A vector is an image or graphic that if you stretch really big or really small, it will not blur because it is based on mathematical formulas. Unlike Photoshop, Illustrator is a vector-based program, ideal for creating logos, illustrations, patterns, icons, and infographics. Using Photoshop to create any text-based or logo-based graphic will significantly limit you as well as impact the quality. Logos and media kits created in Photoshop will NOT be as crisp and formatted as beautifully as if they were created in Illustrator and InDesign, respectively. When you scale Photoshop files, you lose quality. Do not use Photoshop for any graphics, logos, text-heavy documents, text layout, etc. Use Photoshop for photographs, blog post and social media graphics, collages, and mood boards. Photoshop tends to be the most familiar piece of software. It’s great for animated gifs, mockups of products or printed work, photo manipulation, and photo editing (color balance, brightness, saturation). Photoshop is a photo editing software, a pixel-based program. Your results will never quite look as right as if you used the correct software (InDesign). While there are thousands of articles online teaching you how to make an e-book using Photoshop, you are essentially using the wrong tool for the job. The same goes for Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.Įach piece of software in the Creative Cloud serves a purpose. I mean, you might be in a situation where you #lifehack, but overall, you use certain tools to accomplish certain tasks. You’d don’t use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail, and you do not use a hammer with a screw.

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