As Web Archetype starts to venture more towards the design aspects of website creation, we have officially decided to begin using Adobe’s comprehensive collection of design software known as Adobe Creative Suite 5.
Having used Adobe Photoshop for the past few years, and Adobe InDesign for the past few months, it seemed appropriate to upgrade to the full suite of products and begin using Adobe Illustrator to produce high quality vector images. As stand alone products, Photoshop and InDesign are fantastic applications that are worth every penny to any designer – however with the addition of Illustrator, any user can dramatically improve their efficiency rate overnight.
The ability to ‘link’ Illustrators EPS files into InDesign is extremely valuable and significantly improves graphical integrity of any documents produced. Adobe has managed to create a very fluent and natural flow between their design products, and when using the Creative Suite it becomes clear why Adobe dominates the design software market.
Stay tuned for more thoughts and reviews on Adobe products and other design/development software.