Software workshop

The software workshop helped us to get to know Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign better. We learned that those three editor programs are used for different tasks so we would always need more than one editor to get a project done.

Photoshop is great with pictures because its working with pixels. A lot of times it is used to cut out different images from various photos to create a kind of collage using different layers.

Illustrator is used to design for example logos and to make different shapes just as triangles or squares.

The last editor which we were dealing with is InDesign which is used to create any kind of layers, books or magazines.

Basically, if I would like to design a magazine I would have to design a front page out of different photos using Photoshop. Then I would also design logos or shapes by using Illustrator and after that I would copy them into InDesign to come up with my finished magazine. That means that all three editor work together to create one perfect outcome.

Also important to remember is that any photos or moving images which only appear on a screen like the TV or Instagram are made with RGB Colours (Red, Green, Blue).

Photos or outcomes which are going to get printed are made with CMYK Colour (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key). That is because the printer are only able to print using CMYK Colour. Referring to that the colours would turn out differently on paper than on screen when using RGB Colours for instance for printing a magazine.

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