Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign: Collaboration and Workflow

Welcome to our Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow course. The goal of this course is to challenge the status quo when working with, and combining, the primary Adobe design applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign. The nine lessons in this course will take you on a journey that explores how to get the most out of these applications and how multi-app workflows will forever change the way in which you approach a design project.

This course is aimed at graphic designers, print designers, illustrators, web designers, and anyone else who is working on a project in which you might bump into the limitations of a single design application.

For example, InDesign is a great solution for typesetting and building multipage layouts, but it can’t do image retouching. Photoshop is amazing at image retouching but lacks the drawing tools in Illustrator.
And while Illustrator can be used for typesetting single-page layouts, it lacks the advanced type features, image placement options, and automation features in InDesign.

Each of the Adobe design apps comes with unique strengths, but they often need each other to fulfll a specific task as part of a larger process. It’s important to understand how the interaction among these applications will allow you to deliver impressive work. However, success is guaranteed only when you know what you’re doing. Failing that, you might find yourself struggling to make changes to an existing design, as some components of the file might have been flattened, text might have been outlined, or individual elements might have passed out of your control. Because you expect these three apps to work together smoothly, it can be very frustrating when you have to lose time backtracking your steps.

This course is designed to help you make the right decisions, teach you how to ask the right questions before taking a specific course of action, and support the synergy between Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.