How to Use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator are part of the Adobe Creative Suite of applications for the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Adobe CS contains "breakthrough interactive design tools that enable you to create, deliver, and optimize beautiful, high-impact digital experiences across media and devices." InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator are some of the best-known applications included in the Adobe CS and are the industry standard tools for graphic design. InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator each perform specific functions in design and designers use them with one another.
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Edit images with Photoshop. This advanced image editing program contains countless features for creating, manipulating and perfecting images. Photoshop is essential to professional photographers, who use for everything from removing stray hairs to changing the background of an image. Graphic designers use it to draw and paint original images or combine and manipulate existing images.
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Create graphics that go from the size of a postage stamp to the size of sports arena sign with Illustrator. The vector format that Illustrator produces are "resolution independent," so their size is easy to change. Most images have a fixed resolution, meaning that if you expand them to a larger size than the resolution allows, the image will distort. When creating a logo, for example, graphic designers usually start with a line drawing and text in Illustrator, and then move to Photoshop to refine the logo.
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Design and lay out documents with InDesign. An essential tool in print production, InDesign offers control over typography and page placement to create books, magazines, newspapers and catalogs. Graphic designers import Photoshop and Illustrator files into InDesign to create finished pieces and prepare them for publication.
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