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4 Apr 2007

photoshop vs indesign: what do designers want to learn?

Author: webee | Filed under: who's best

it all started some days ago when i launched an interesting poll regarding what kind of buzeezzz are my readers interested in.

i was wondering if you were interested in:
- photoshop related posts
or..
- indesign related posts.

and the winner is….

photoshop vs indesign

and here’s the statistics:
1. poll released on 13th of march. promoted through post, reminder post and widget in sidebar
2. since then, i’ve had 824 visits.
3. i’ve got a 1.3% vote per visits ratio (not satisfactory but… good enough for a first poll in the first month of the blog).

my conclusions and posting plan:
1. i will keep an equilibrium regarding photoshop vs indesign related posts
2. doing this i plan to:
- focus the photoshop related posts on some entertaining themes (e.g. top 10 reasons for which i hate photoshop).
- focus the indesign related posts on more technical themes (e.g. tip of the day series).

and this is why:
1. photoshop is becoming a common tool: more and more people uses photoshop currently. it’s not that “new stuff” anymore. people learn it’s functions in order to learn how they can play jokes on each other (eg. change your body shapes).

don’t get me wrong. this doesn’t mean that designers don’t use it. i just think it’s becoming more… accessible to day-to-day learning users.

2. phtotoshop is going online: as photoshop is preparing for google supremacy it will be more and more accessible as “how to kind of resource”

3. indesign is the new heap: any designer interested in printing layouts (from an indesign brochure to a magazine) will learn to use this new tool.
and the confirmation that it’s more reliable than quark is the increasing number of, designers that give up on using quark for indesign.

these are the users that are interested in “tip of the day” or “shortcut” kind of resource.

but… look at me… i can’t stop in sharing my thoughts. :)
what do you think? what should a designer wanting to help other designers write about?

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2 Responses to “photoshop vs indesign: what do designers want to learn?”

  1. uncle_flow says: April 14th, 2007 at 9:18 pm

  2. Bee,

    I’m just getting started after years of writing content for people I decided to diversify and move on to the other side of the office into the designer’s room.

    Well, I have been faced with my first new task - an exciting and informative newsletter for a state-funded program. Well, I’ve only worked in a limited capacity with the designers whom I have been teamed with in the past - it’s a very secretive and guarded profession, almost like the Masons.

    In any event I would like to learn more more more about designing this newsletter with efficiency - there are a lot of different things to do in my job as well. . . so, can you recommend a book that would help me expand my KNOWLEDGE of INDESIGN - I work with the Creative Suite but also have QUARK XPRESS 6.5 on my workstation - bottom line, I hate not knowing something. . . help me.

    w.

  4. I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. You really know this stuff.

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