From the course: Designing a Business Card
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Which tools to use - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Business Card
Which tools to use
- Which tool or tools should you use to create your business card? We have the big three of the Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, and they're all valid choices. But in my opinion, InDesign is the best place to be, and this is because InDesign offers the easiest access to OpenType features and to spacing characters like n-spaces and m-spaces, and it also has a better implementation of paragraph and character styles. Illustrator - a perfectly valid choice. It's definitely the best place to be for creating logos, but this scenario of creating a business card assumes the logo is already created, and you're going to place that logo in your InDesign document. I will say that if there's a strong interplay between the logo and the business card text, then possibly Illustrator is the preferable place to be. Then, of course, there is the third, Photoshop. Photoshop, as much as I love it, as life changing and wonderful as Photoshop is, it's not great for typography. And if…
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