Essential Software for Professional Designers.
May 16, 2019
Essential Software for Professional Designers.
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign CC is being used only in the IT department in my organization. The biggest problem that has been presented to us is file saving with large programs can get tricky, especially if you use a shared location. All the materials for your files have to be stored locally and not moved, for InDesign to pull the information. This isn't tragic, but just have to make sure things are kept in the same location.
- It is cross-compatible with other Adobe products, and there are hundreds of online video tutorials to help you achieve the results you want.
- Contextual information at your fingertips.
- Superbly balanced interface.
- Requires a subscription. PDF comments integration needs polishing.
- This program has an art asset library, however, you must pay for a monthly art asset subscription to access everything.
- The cost of the software is high and any time a new teammate needs to be added to the plan, that's even more.
- We have increased productivity in our organization due to the incredible saving of time thanks to the implementation of this wonderful software.
- The ability to combine appointments in a repetition style and move from a spreadsheet to InDesign is a great time saver. It has helped us many times.
- Taking the design of collateral in-house rather than having to pay an external studio.
Canva is really a very easy tool for simple designs. Create stuff, the way you want it and it has more than enough features to create truly appealing designs. Best of all it helps you and guides you while you’re getting the hang of it.
But when you need to create anything more than a front and flip side of a flyer; when you need to produce several iterations quickly, because your client is not happy with the design; when you need sophisticated typographical features; then it’s better to turn to Adobe InDesign.