Graphics and Publishing Software

Graphics & publishing is one of the fast growing economical sectors. There are many designer and publisher that can be easily encountered in town. Perhaps, this is caused by many graphics and publishing software that available either commercially or free. Graphics desktop publishing software allows you to arrange text and graphics freely in a page. It is very versatile and is used for projects such as brochures, flyers, catalogs, business cards, and so on. Each graphics and publishing software has their own production cost and functionality to meet different needs. Some of them are more suitable to professional graphics editing while the others are more suitable to small business or home usage. Short review of the software is provided in this short reading article.

Adobe InDesign is one of desktop graphics and publishing program that meet the industry and professional requirements for commercial usage. In this versatile program, the user can do almost everything in page layout. The program has DTP built in extensively including typesetting features, color management, supporting tools for editing and publishing graphics. This program is supported with tutorial videos, online Adobe support, training classes and online text resources. For beginner user, this program can be overwhelming to use. In case that you have money and the time to learn deeper, you have to believe that the money is worth it. Adobe InDesign is sold for $550 – $800 each account. Its upgrade will cost you $200. This application is usually available with other of Adobe Graphics applications.

Another graphics and publishing software is Microsoft Publisher. They are good for non professionalusage.MP has many templates that available either online or offline. With this application, any designer of small business or home user can create various business publications like flyers, brochures, and business cards.  From user testimonials, Publisher is said to lack many “higher-end” functionality which is crucial for professional projects such as kerning and color management. Microsoft has incorporated much of Publisher’s page layout functionality into the latest version of Microsoft Word 2010. This software is sold for $125.00 each as part of Microsoft Office Productivity Suite.