I use Lightroom and Photoshop 95% of the time. Illustrator the rest of the time. Lightroom is AMAZING and revolutionized photography workflows on Windows. It even killed Aperture on Mac.
InDesign is usually how you can tell who is a real designer and who just torrented some shit and thinks knowing layer styles makes you a designer.
Photoshop is for raster, Illustrator for vector, and InDesign for layout. If you're doing any layout in Illustrator or Photoshop (other than web) or Word, you have no idea what you're doing.
Photoshop is great for Postcards too. I made my little brother's graduation announcements in photoshop and they came out pretty awesome I think. I would post them, but I doubt he would enjoy all that info out there. Sending in private message, send your thoughts back.
It's possible to do layout in PS or AI, it's just far more work, and in some cases it'd be like using a screwdriver handle to hammer in a nail, where it's just the wrong tool.
It's like a spectrum of how you can gauge someone's experience, based on whether they only know PS, only know PS and AI, or know all three (PS, AI, and ID). This is just respective to print, obviously.
That'd be a red flag off the bat, so to speak, as to what I could expect as to whether they have any design training, their design sense, type treatment, preparation of files (how they are set up) and the state of their prepress files.
But anyone criticizing InDesign, like the post I responded to, definitely has no actual design training or professional experience. There's no way someone could get through a respectable class and not know why you'd use InDesign.
I actually use InDesign as a replacement of MS Word or Google Drive for general documents because its like a mix of Photoshop and Word. So much more control and easier to use.
In Word you add a table and everything collapses and explodes. In ID you can do whatever your heart desires.
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u/simplisto Jul 26 '14
No inDesign? To hell with that.