The whole idea behind InDesign is to be used as a tool for taking any elements that you create in Photoshop or Illustrator and put them together in a single place. Books, magazines, brochures, business cards, newsletters, adverts, creative CVs, anything. InDesign has a very specific purpose – for laying out printed materials. ESP, which does indeed allow you to export type as vectors, but, as handy as this is in some circumstances, it’s generally not considered to be best practice.) InDesign – Primary Uses (Note: it’s now possible to save a Photoshop file as an. For the same reason, Photoshop should also not be used for setting type for print projects – again, this is a job for vectors. Even though it is possible to do such a thing with the application, because the files that Photoshop creates are pixel- or raster-based, they cannot be enlarged or manipulated in the same way that vector-based (such as those created by Illustrator) can. But the reality is that Photoshop, with its pixelated exports, actually has its place, and is not in fact the universal solution for all graphic design.įor instance, Photoshop should not be used for creating logos. As such, there is a somewhat prevailing misconception out there in the non-design-oriented world that assumes that Photoshop is the wonder tool that can do pretty much anything and everything – and with the amount of online literature and video tutorials there is on the subject, it’s not hard to see where this belief has stemmed from.
Photoshop, you could argue, is the flagship Adobe product – everyone’s heard of it, even if they’ve never been near the software in their lives. These days, Photoshop is used for web pages, flyers and advertisements, video graphics, interface designs and even editing pictures for print.Īt its core, however, Photoshop is the tool to use for creating and editing photographs and pixel-based artwork. However, over time, the program has evolved to include increasing amounts of functionality, and therefore its usage has also changed. Originally – a long time ago now, in fact – Photoshop was developed as a tool to enhance photographs, plain and simple. In this blog we are going to be exploring how to start getting two of Adobe’s most celebrated products, InDesign and Photoshop, to work together in perfect sync.Īll will be revealed – but let’s start with the basics. That is to say that they are meant to be used together – the only obstacle is in working out just how it’s done.
It’s no accident, of course – they have been built this way.
Photoshop, Illustrator, Muse, InDesign – they have all been carved from the same wood, if you like, and the result is that they are all harmoniously in tune. Of course they are – that’s (more than) half the attraction of signing up to the Creative Cloud. Adobe products are made for each another.
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