What to Use
Lori Byrne
I am somewhat new.
I am a web graphic designer and I've been thrown into designing for print.
I have to design some large posters. Would it make sense for me to use
freehand to do this? The only adobe program I am somewhat comfortable with
is InDesign. Photoshop drives me crazy and I've never touched illustrator.
There is going to be more print design project coming my way and I am hoping
to find a program which can handle small brochures.. leaflets.. etc.. as
well as large posters and I figured this would be the place to ask. I've
been deluding myself into thinking I can use fireworks thus far ;-)
I am comfortable with Macromedia but I know its usually adobe where print is
concerned.
ANYWAYS, I am sure there will be differing opinions, but any and all would
help me out.
Thank you
Lori
http://www.inter-planet.com
William G. Dalzell
the types of jobs you indicated. I do all of the same types of jobs
myself in FreeHand 10 all the time. If you import bitmaps you will still
find a use for PhotoShop, but I usually find it much easier to overlay
all the text in FreeHand. I used PageMaker for the same kinds of jobs
for years until Adobe basically abandoned it and FH 10 came out with
master pages. I also do a lot of product labels for flexographic
printing and the print shop prefers FH files to PM as they are easier to
warp. I don't agree that print is predominantly Illustrator. AI's
print engine is so hard to work with that my local service bureau says
to export as EPS from AI, import into Quark, PM, etc and print. Many of
our local printers also prefer FH to AI files. I think most print work
is still actually done on Quark, PM or InDesign, but FH works fine and
allows you to do the vector graphics right in the file.
Bobby Henderson
wrote in message news:b0n55j$l01$1...@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am somewhat new.
>
> I am a web graphic designer and I've been thrown into designing for print.
>
> I have to design some large posters. Would it make sense for me to use
> freehand to do this? The only adobe program I am somewhat comfortable with
> is InDesign. Photoshop drives me crazy and I've never touched illustrator.
If you have Adobe InDesign, use that to assemble your final print layout.
Freehand and Photoshop are indispensible tools in adding all the "eye-candy"
to the print layout.
First, you need to find out how your print work will be output. What line
screen or halftone frequency will be used? Page size? Is the work
full-bleed? Will it be CMYK? Will you have spot colors? I know a bunch of
those questions sound pretty stupid, but they are issues you must consider
in advance. Once much of that is known, you can at least set up your
InDesign document(s) with those parameters in mind.
Get your photos and other bitmap based art taken care of in Photoshop.
Freehand is great for producing vector-based art, such as logos, title
effects and any other complex vector-based stuff. You can take that art and
export it either in EPS or Adobe Illustrator format to bring into InDesign.
Do all your type work (body copy, that is) within InDesign. Right now, it
has the best type setting tools of any layout app on the market, including
full support of all the bells and whistles of OpenType.
Bobby Henderson
Odysseus
>
> I am a web graphic designer and I've been thrown into designing for print.
>
> I have to design some large posters. Would it make sense for me to use
> freehand to do this? The only adobe program I am somewhat comfortable with
> is InDesign. Photoshop drives me crazy and I've never touched illustrator.
>
> There is going to be more print design project coming my way and I am hoping
> to find a program which can handle small brochures.. leaflets.. etc.. as
> well as large posters and I figured this would be the place to ask. I've
> been deluding myself into thinking I can use fireworks thus far ;-)
>
> I am comfortable with Macromedia but I know its usually adobe where print is
> concerned.
>
even much larger projects, as William said (and I also agree with him
that Illustrator is lousy at printing). Bear in mind that there are
many important differences between designing for print and for the
Web. Without launching into a lecture on the subject the best advice
I can give is to get in touch with whoever will be printing the
poster to find out their requirements as soon as possible -- it could
save a lot of time and hassle to get clear on various issues (spot
_vs_ process colour, image resolution, &c.), and to be sure they can
use the format you intend to provide, before you get too far into the project.
--Odysseus
fRED
described, under os 9 (wintel i do not know).
when you use osx freehand is no choice. read this forum and you will
realise that the current version of fh10 is an Insolence (?) to many
bugs, cant handle fonts correct. perhaps they make a better mx version
but do not spend money for the current......fRED
Lori Byrne
Nice to know I'll be able to stay in my Macormedia Comfort Zone :-)
I am sure I'll be back with many more questions since I've only used
freehand for vector art to be used in flash or logos and things like that
Thanks again,
Lori
http://www.inter-planet.com
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Jennifer Ovink
stuff with many pages would best be handled in ID.
BTW, you're the first web designer I've ever encountered who doesn't use
Photoshop. I'm not sure how you live without it.... ;-)
Jennifer
Thomas J. Unger
I rarely use Photoshop for my web imagery (mostly re-touching and of
course print), I prefer Fireworks for web image creation. -Tom Unger