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Using InDesign: Pros and cons

Using InDesign: Pros and cons

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Using InDesign: Pros and cons

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While Adobe Illustrator is the most commonly used desktop program for creating packaging art, if you're an InDesign user and you don't know Illustrator well, do you need to learn Illustrator? Well for a lot of carton work you can get by using InDesign. And of course, one of the advantages would be if you're accustomed to InDesign, you have your familiar tools in InDesign and you don't have to learn a new set of tools when you learn Illustrator. This is sort of a nicety: in InDesign, if you want to crop an image, you just change the corners of the frame holding that image. In Illustrator, to crop an image, you have to create a separate object and then turn that object into a mask. It's a little bit of extra work. Now there's some overlap between Illustrator and InDesign, InDesign has layers just like the Illustrator it has transparency options and opacity controls, blending modes and so forth, and of course you are going to need a dieline to build your art work too, you could either…

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