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- Natural
When you work with brochures or other print work, what is your application of choice? Photoshop? Indesign? Illustrator? *gasp* Quark!?
Also - working with huge ass stock photography in every project has managed to reduce my processor, and me to tears. I have a brand new computer with some ass-kicking specs, and a 300dpi A4 brings me to a crawl. It takes 20 seconds to open a large 300DPI image for Christ's sake.
How do firms work on print material efficiently if takes so long just to open a damn image?
- rasko40
amazing how you think that using photoshop or illustrator is less *gasp* than using quark.
I would ONLY use quark, or possibly InDesign (transitional learning) or freehand if there was certain requirements.
Too much bandwagon Quark bashing from people who don't know what they are doing.
- phatlee0
Quark...and for positionals/visuals images are just 150 res until the hi res ones are put in
- Irafis0
Quark and Indesign are the best choices. But you can use also Photoshop or Illustrator only if you design flyers or on 1-2 page brochure. Try to link the images and not to include them directly into the document, or design using low resolution images and then change them with high-res only at the end.
- its_only_me0
Quark should be the choice.
...but Ive always hated using in, even going back to my studying days.
...only because I couldnt be arsed learning it fully.
- blaw0
illustrator and photoshop for artwork; indesign or quark for the layout.
- paraselene0
we keep all the really big work on a network drive (a little lacie external would be fine for this purpose). the instant you get photography from a client, make screen-only versions and thumbnails of each image. keep those on your local and be very strict about your naming conventions (otherwise you'll just get confused).
i'm in the process of learning indesign at the moment, but i'm reluctant to throw quark overboard. (and why should you? keep abreast of as many programs as possible.) it's not been the industry standard for the better part of two decades for nothing.
- HumanMale0
Photoshop for flyers and brochures?!
What the fuck are some of you on???
- ********0
Photoshop for flyers and brochures?!
What the fuck are some of you on???
HumanMale
(Nov 17 05, 03:50)It can be done. I've had to before. Not everyone has access to all the apps.
- UndoUndo0
if a 300dpi image A4 is taking 20 minutes to open i would go and buy a new graphics card. £100 well sprent will whittle that down to 20 secs max.
a worth while investment if it only stops you going crazy whilst waiting
:)
- HumanMale0
It can be done. I've had to before. Not everyone has access to all the apps.
skt
(Nov 17 05, 03:51)\That's fair enough. Sorry for being an arse. To be fair, I've done quite a few flyers in Photoshop.
- MrMackem0
How big is this brochure gonna be?
Id give it a go in MS Paint.
- Bite0
Quark everytime, I don't get this 'gasp' thing,
Quark is the industry standard, a top program. You really can't beat it.
Photoshop/Illustrator really should be used for artwork rather than layout. I always find that photoshop blurs text very slightly.
- honest0
i generally use quark, but i also used indesign for 3 years prior to my current position.
useful tip:
Indesign will open back up at the point at which you crashed and has much more better preview capabilities (zoom to 3000% and beyond!!!!)
- rasko40
buz lightyear - is that you?