What Is Adobe Xd Cc Used For

[Graziana Getz]

Hii love creating modern photo collages which contain images, text and shapes similar to ones like at www.canva.com. The thing is i don't know what is the correct program to use as i'm a perfectionist. Is it photoshop, illustrator, indesign etc. What do you guys think?

If you want automate collages that contain Image and text you need to use an automated process. If the text is not constant I would think you may need to use. Photoshop Data driven Graphics. I would need to for I do not use any other Adobe application. So I actually do know what can be automated in other Adobe application.

Automation is normally done by creating a template file a layered document like a psd file. That will be populated with you images a text by some automated process. Photoshop has such a feature Creating data-driven graphics in Photoshop. There are tutorials on YouTube. data driven graphics photoshop - YouTube

Additionally there are Script that can batch populate Collages and Mockups in Photoshop. Some if my scripts support stamping File name on placed image is various locations. And Templates can also include static text layers overlays.

Just to let everyone know out of all off these pieces of software, photoshop is my most familar one. Even though it is raster, as long as it's atleast 300 dpi i feel photo collages are great on photoshop. You can create guides, add light, bold pieces of text, organise images, text and graphics into layers. Does anyone agree with me as photoshop is my favourite?

I'm not saying it can't be done in Photoshop, but the question was which application is best suited for it. And the answer to that is InDesign. Text and vector handling is very limited in a raster editor like Photoshop.

The finals output file will most likely be a jpeg file that has no vectors no transparency a background layer. Vector graphics are not required for creating a collage and as you wrote Photoshop has vector text and some vector graphics features and vector tools. You have not written anything about InDesign that leads me to believe its is better suite then Photoshop. I'm sure Collages will be created differently using the tools best suite the the job in each application, What InDesign features make InDesign better suited. What would make me want to learn a complex Adobe Application to created Collages when they are so easy to create in Photoshop a product I know well. I know nothing about InDesign what is in InDesign that is a must have for Collages or make InDesign better suited. Is there a feature in InDesign that is better than Photoshop Data Driven Graphics. Is there an InDesign Scripting feature that is better than Photoshop scripting. What make you state InDesign is best. If you know Photoshop Collages are simple. They may be simple also in InDesign also I would not dispute that. Best is subjective IMO. I do not believe there is a clear best.

I agree, my collage is made up with mainly images but the addition of text and the odd graphic looks fine as long as it's a high dpi. I feel indesign is more for leaflets, menus, flyers or anything that is text heavy

It depend on what the collage is for. Resolution is meaningless on the web all that matters the number of pixels the composite has. The number of pixels you have in the width and height of the image. If you want to print you collages large. You need a lot more pixels for you want to print the image with small small high resolution pixels. So you need a lot of high quality pixels to print a large size print. Today though some small web devices have small high PPI resolution displays. They display high resolution images. But they can not display a larger high resolution print size image. Their physical size is small they can not display as many pixels A large high resolution print size image has. The images more pixels then the display can display. Display have a single resolution and only have as many pixels as they are manufactured with. Displays display screen size images the have one image size. If edit and create Large high resolution print size collages. You can resample them down in size to reduce the number of Pixels you have for your collage and the new interpolated smaller image will look good and fit on your display.

I use PS, Illustrator, and InDesign and agree with Dag that InDesign is best suited for it. That doesn't mean you can't do it elsewhere, but you did ask. You can drag-place the images to scale non-destructively.

What is your final objective for this artwork? Print, on screen, video, web/social media, something else? Once you define how the artwork will be used, then you can choose the most appropriate software.

Both Photoshop and InDesign by default will preserve and honor all embedded color profiles. So as long as your placed files have embedded profiles - and you haven't changed anything in the apps' Color Settings - they should be absolutely identical.

There is one gotcha for CMYK content in InDesign. Here, the default policy is to "Preserve Numbers", which is the same as "Assign Profile" in Photoshop. There are good reasons for this (mainly to avoid K-only black turning into 4-color black) - but images should normally be kept RGB and standard procedure is to place RGB images. This will always be treated and displayed correctly in InDesign.

Do you have the same interface color in both applications? If they are different it will affect your whole perception of brightness. Interface color is a very important part of your viewing environment.

Unless you have turned color management "off" in Color Settings. That is something you should never do (and frankly I have no idea why the "off" option even exists. It's a guaranteed catastrophe waiting to happen).

For a raw file, the color profile is set in the raw processor. For a new document, it's the working space. You can convert from one profile to another with "Edit > Convert to Profile". This recalculates the numbers to maintain appearance.

The crucial setting in Color Settings is "Color Management Policies". This should always be set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles" - and then the profile will follow the file throughout, and travel with it anywhere it goes.

With a small exception for CMYK in InDesign, as explained above. But don't use CMYK for images. And another exception for other applications out there that don't support color management at all. But that's a different story.

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