Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator – Oh My!

Image representing Adobe Systems as depicted i...

Image via CrunchBase

 

In today’s installment of Ask A Designer, we’ll be dealing with design software. It’s pretty common knowledge that Adobe software is the industry standard- with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign specifically being the heaviest hitters- but if you don’t deal with these programs every day it’s easy to get confused about their individual uses.

As a broad generalization, you can remember:

 

  • Photoshop is for photos (.jpg, .tiff, .gif)
  • Illustrator is for vector art and logos (.eps, .ai, editable .pdfs)
  • InDesign is for designing multi-page documents (brochure, catalogs, etc.)

 

Getting more specific, this infographic is a little silly but gives a really solid breakdown of the exact strengths and weaknesses of each program :

Battle of 3 Popular Graphic Design Software

 

by logosnap.Browse more infographics.

 

 

 

Enhanced by Zemanta

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *