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Chai Ploentham
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April 29, 2017
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What Product is best for a restaurant menu?

What Product is best for a restaurant menu?

I'm now using Photoshop now and wonder if anyone else in the industry use something different and easier.

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    Barb Binder
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    April 29, 2017

    Photoshop is meant for photo editing. While some may choose to use it to create a menu, you would be way better off using InDesign, which was intended for document design/page layout. InDesign CC 2017 even has menu templates available for a jump-start.

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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    Nancy OShea
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    April 29, 2017

    I assume you want high quality printed menus, so I recommend using Illustrator for your vector graphic artwork and then bringing the artwork into your InDesign layout or template.  

    Nancy

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      Trevor.Dennis
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      April 30, 2017

      Blimey.  InDesign, Dreamweaver, Muse and Illustrator.  Poor Chai won't know if he is coming or going.   Would it help if we knew what the intended end product will be?

      [EDIT]  Just a thought, but if a website is intended, could you get away with using Portfolio for something like this?  Would be within the terms and conditions?

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      jane-e
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      April 30, 2017

      Yes, blimey (what does that mean?)

      I would suggest Illustrator or InDesign. Both are easier than Photoshop.

      Why Illustrator? Because if you are going from print to web, it has awesome export to css and asset export that InDesign does not have. Here is a very small sample.

      Also, yes, there are lots of menu templates for Illustrator available at Adobe Stock.

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      Ussnorway7605025
      Ussnorway7605025
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      April 29, 2017

      unless you want a online restaurant in which case Muse (or Dreamweaver)

      Muse example = Bakery | Konditori Lyon

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      Barb Binder
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      April 29, 2017

      Photoshop is meant for photo editing. While some may choose to use it to create a menu, you would be way better off using InDesign, which was intended for document design/page layout. InDesign CC 2017 even has menu templates available for a jump-start.

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      ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
        happie_97
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        May 10, 2017

        I agree with Barb, InDesign is the best tool to use to create a menu, especially of it has multiple pages.

        Now one could argue that Illustrator is just as good, and it is. Especially if it is just a one page menu.

        Either tool will get the job done well. Semantically, one was created for layout and the other was created for vector creation.

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