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Considering cost and overall effectivesness, which program is best for print ads? At the moment I am using Photoshop 7 (yes I know it's old) but wanted to get some other opinions.
Print ads?
Indesign is the standard.
Most publishers are accepting (and prefer) .pdf documents
I know quite a few print designers that are using photoshop for print.
Biggest issues that publishers have: font compatibility, photos and graphics that are not 300 dpi at size and/or not in CMYK.
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I would say if you have one app, it would be Photoshop, then InDesign, then Illustrator by need and effectiveness. If you can get the suite of apps you'd be good. With PS you just need to ensure you set up your doc for print quality correctly.
Funny, I have Photoshop and Illustrator ....I also have ImageReady but thought I'd do a little research to see if it was InDesign that I needed to produce the print ads I wanted to do for my business.
Thank you for the great advice.
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Originally Posted by Sayantsi
I would say if you have one app, it would be Photoshop, then InDesign, then Illustrator by need and effectiveness. If you can get the suite of apps you'd be good. With PS you just need to ensure you set up your doc for print quality correctly.
Funny, I have Photoshop and Illustrator ....I also have ImageReady but thought I'd do a little research to see if it was InDesign that I needed to produce the print ads I wanted to do for my business.
Thank you for the great advice.
Illustrator is an excellent layout program for ads.
Funny, I have Photoshop and Illustrator ....I also have ImageReady but thought I'd do a little research to see if it was InDesign that I needed to produce the print ads I wanted to do for my business.
Thank you for the great advice.
PS and Illustrator are all you need - you just need to create docs with the proper CMYK, resolution, package fonts appropriately, etc. PDFs work well for final versions.
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