Any InDesigners out there?

[chadaw]

Originally Posted by Jarrod Tully

After years of avoiding it, I'm finally trying to face the music and learn Illustrator. I'm terrible at the bezier handles. I never know where to put my anchor points and end up twisting them into a mess. I'm hoping the pen tool gets easier with use? If not, I will elect to move under the sea where bezier curves don't exist.

Yeah, I hate them too. In my Illustrator class, we had to draw the state of Illinois using the tool. That was a pain, but worth the hard work to learn it.

[chadaw]

Originally Posted by jassoalf

i design layout for my websites,, gimme your opinion

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Great job.

[Mrs. ZZZ]

Originally Posted by Jarrod Tully

I'm using it to design a photography book I'm publishing and am impressed with how intuitive it is. If you know QuarkXpress, you know InDesign. And being an Adobe product, it works nicely with Photoshop.

Hi,

I have used both Indesign and Quark. I actually detest Quark....reminds me of a senior citizen wanting to hang out with the cool crowd......

I am now thank god using Indesign and would not switch back to Quark if not absolutely necessary. Because it's seldom I have to make booklets or other publications I stick with Illustrator because as the Mayor I am addicted to it. I use Photoshop too, but only for enhancing and working on photos. After a short period of avoiding the bezier pen, I made myself master it, and now I use it so much and with great pleasure.... man Illustrator just rocks, I always end up in a discussion with Corel Draw users !!

The thing that BUGS me though is that although Id, Ai and Ps belong to the creative suite, there are differences in "behaviour" in the different progams. for example when I transform an object in photoshop, hitting enter will finalize it, when I do this in illustrator it gives me the transform box. Same with command+D for placing objects in Indesign, this does not work in Illustrator.....CONSISTENCY, CONSISTENCY, CONSISTENCY Adobe developers!!

I would post samples of my work, but company policy does not allow that...

[Mrs. ZZZ]

Originally Posted by Jarrod Tully

I'd love to see some design samples from anyone out there who's used it for publishing. Here's a simple CD cover I designed for a local country artist using Photoshop and InDesign.

CD Cover

By the way the CD cover looks awesome! But I imagine you only added text in Id?
That would, for me, be a Illustrator job.....much more freedom. I actually don't like the boxes where u have to put text or images in in ID.....

[Mr. Mayor]

Yeah Jarrod, that CD cover does look awesome, great work.

I'm a Photoshop junkie myself... use Illustrator when necessary... don't use InDesign much if at all...

Thought I'd chime in :P