I have this report for my IT course about the best programs for the creation of an internet newsletter based off of a comic strip.
So the first things that came to my mind was the Adobe Creative Suite, but as I did more research I found that there were other programs.
I am now a little confused as to what I should stick with.
The assignment gave categories for the uses of each program:
-Designing and laying out the newsletter> I thought of a combination of Photoshop and Dreamweaver
-Creating the text articles> Word and InDesign
-Creating the Comic Strip> Photoshop (again), Corel Paint, and InDesign
So I'm just curious as to what you may use if you were to create a weekly newsletter of a comic strip and if this is the most optimal selection of programs.
publisher
Is this newsletter being published (aka printed)?
If so you definatly want to stick with InDesign for creating the layout, the type, etc. Think of InDesign as the "dreamweaver" for print.
If not, you can still use indesign to output PDF files. It's a program that's pretty much designed for "page layout" and making sure everything is properly set up. It's the "industry standard" for these kinds of things.
Obviously you'd want to have photoshop/illustrator for making any graphics. Illustrator only if you plan on having vector-based artwork/graphics, otherwise doing it all on photoshop will do just fine.
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Also publisher is total shit for actual print-publishing. It prints based off an RGB design, which is stupid when you take into consideration that every printer in exsistance operates under CMYK color spaces. PDF's and formats from publisher have also been known to cause some real issues with RIP's and even can cause them crashes (most likely it having a bloated post-script code related to the fact that it does only RGB values).
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