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Layout collage software?

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Aug 03, 2021 Aug 03, 2021

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I am trying to create a photo collage or layout to post for social media and possible sales. I thought about photoshop but just not sure. Somebody suggested indesign. Thoughts?

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Aug 03, 2021 Aug 03, 2021

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Aug 03, 2021 Aug 03, 2021

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If you are going to make a single-page collage, especially one that will include painterly effects, Photoshop is usually the better choice.

 

InDesign and Photoshop (as well as Illustrator) will work, but each emphasizes different types of design.

 

Those applications will let you:

  • Drag multiple images from the desktop onto an empty page/canvas. 
  • Combine images using layers, opacity, blending modes, and hide unwanted parts of images using vector masks. 
  • Print at professional quality and high resolution, if the images are also high resolution and print settings are set up correctly. 
  • Design or work out ideas using multiple pages (InDesign) or artboards (Photoshop, Illustrator). 
  • Include professional-quality typography. 

 

If you want to push the collage as far as you can, Photoshop will give you more control, including:

  • Hide and fade parts of images using layer (pixel-based) masks. 
  • Paint with a wide selection of brushes, and control every pixel in the image. 
  • Apply a wide selection of filters and plug-ins. 
  • Export images properly optimized for posting online, as well as print and video. 

 

 

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Aug 04, 2021 Aug 04, 2021

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The tipping point from Photoshop to InDesign can be summed up in one short word: text.

 

Photoshop is a very poor tool for working with text, because it will ultimately rasterize everything into pixels. If your focus is images and graphics, Photoshop is fine.

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Aug 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021

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I would think that anything InDesign displays  on computer displays would be pixels images.  Displays display pixels they are not vector devices.  Text  layer in photoshop are rendered with pixels however  text layers are not raster pixel layers.

 

Photoshop Text support may not be as good as indesign text support I do not know for I do not use InDesign.  However  I would not call  Photoshop Text support very poor.  In Photoshop I have automated populating Collage Templates with Photoshop scripting which includes a little text support.  Photo Collage template can content as many text layer the template designer needs.   

 

Photo Collage Template, Script Dialog, Result.

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