By class time, Monday, November 29th, post a blog about how you would use all three programs, InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator together to produce a newsletter. Think about the newsletter you produced for 502. How you would you [sic] use each program to produce your final product?
It doesn't take much creative thinking to use these programs to produce a newsletter, since that's exactly the sort of project for which they were created. All you have to do is know which program is best suited for which task: Photoshop is for creating and editing raster images such as photographs, Illustrator is for creating and editing vector images, and InDesign is for layout.
If your newsletter needs a logo or masthead design, Illustrator is the program to use. If I had had more (read: any) experience with Illustrator when I was working on The Bleeding Edge for 502, I would have used it to create the masthead instead of doing it entirely in InDesign.
Photoshop, as its name implies, is most likely to be used for processing and editing photographs. You probably have some that you want to use, but the colors may be washed out or similarly imperfect. You can use Photoshop for quick and easy color correction and make the whole newsletter look better, just as I did on the 502 project.
Finally, once all of your graphic work is done, you can bring it into InDesign. InDesign will let you set the text and produce whatever layout you want, arranging it with images and making it all look nice. Naturally that's what I used for the layout of The Bleeding Edge.
So it's not a big deal to use these programs for a newsletter. It's just a matter of knowing which is the right tool for the job.
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