{"id":12517,"date":"2007-10-10T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/10\/indesign-vs-photoshop-smackdown.html"},"modified":"2007-10-10T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:20:34","slug":"indesign_vs_photoshop_smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/indesign_vs_photoshop_smackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"InDesign vs. Photoshop Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pitting Adobe’s imaging & page-layout flagships against one another seems a little wonky (kind of a Celebrity Deathmatch<\/em>, minus the clay & gore), but by doing so Peachpit’s Mike McHugh shows off some of the power hidden in InDesign.  The battle, in six rounds, hits the following: <\/p>\n

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  1. Recoloring Grayscale Artwork<\/a> <\/li>\n
  2. Recoloring RGB Artwork<\/a> <\/li>\n
  3. Creating Reflections<\/a> <\/li>\n
  4. Applying Special Effects<\/a> <\/li>\n
  5. Creating Vignettes<\/a> <\/li>\n
  6. Generating Contact Sheets<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I wouldn’t necessarily agree that ID beats<\/em> PS on some of these points (cough<\/em>), but the core imaging juice shared between the two enables ID to perform some neat tricks.  And when it comes to generating contact sheets (with a hand-off from Bridge), InDesign just trounces Photoshop–as well it should.  [Via<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n

    [Update<\/b>: Mordy Golding has posted an Illustrator vs. InDesign Smackdown<\/a> on his blog.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Pitting Adobe’s imaging & page-layout flagships against one another seems a little wonky (kind of a Celebrity Deathmatch, minus the clay & gore), but by doing so Peachpit’s Mike McHugh shows off some of the power hidden in InDesign.  The battle, in six rounds, hits the following: Recoloring Grayscale Artwork Recoloring RGB Artwork Creating Reflections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}