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InDesign is a program you can use to create vector images, as opposed to working with raster in PhotoShop. Vector images can be resized without losing information because they are not pixalated. When you rasterize a vector image, it becomes pixalated, and can lose resolution
when it's being resized. InDesign is perfect for designing things for business, things like menus or identity packages because it makes it easy to make things consistant with each other. This first image is a flier made in InDesign. Using both PhotoShop and IDesign, I was able to create a path out of the "Sawdust" logo/text,and fill it with an image. InDesign uses "paths" like this for placing objects and images into. InDesign also allowed me to draw my own curvy path with the pen tool, and then type on the path. InDesign is super useful when working with text because there are many tools that you can employ to make the text consistant, which is especially useful if the document has multiple pages. You can adjust things like line spacing and kerning easily also.
The second image is another flier. In this, I not only made a gradiant in the background of the picture, but used a gradiant stroke, so that the border of the rectangle faded into different colors. A great thing about InDesign is that you work with not only color of the shape, but color of the shape's border, or stroke. You can also change the shape using anchor points. You can put as many on a shape as you want, and they help you to control curves and change the shape of the object easily. You can also create a path out of an image, and fill it with a different image, as we did with the saxophone player. The third image I created using an online tutorial. It is a coupon, similar to the one made in Photoshop, but you can see the different shapes you can make aside from just circles and squares. I used the pen tool to create the arcs of the landscape and was able to adjust them with anchor points.