Adobe InDesign n InDesign does page layouts. It allows you to produce and preview documents for magazines both in print and online across mobile and desktop platforms. It offers more precision with typography than Photoshop but less in the graphics department. InDesign is made for publishing. Ideally projects rendered are newspapers posters and other marketing material. The way InDesign works allows content producers to easily piece together the layouts for multipage magazines and documents. InDesign operates seamlessly with the rest of the Adobe suite to enhance creative ability. The latest version incorporates interactive HTML within documents to allow web if you need to create a layout for something with a lot of and graphics InDesign is just about the best software out there for it.n horizontal-rule Adobe Illustrator n Illustrator is the Photoshop of vector art also known as resolution-independent graphics. Byparison Photoshop is used to create raster art also known as bitmap graphics. Raster vs. Vector nThe key difference between the two is that vector has less detail but can be resized larger infinitely without loss of quality. Vector is alsoprised of lines curves and geometric data. Whereas in contrast raster graphics areposed of individual pixels. Illustrator is typically used to create logos and graphics for business cards infographics clipart and icons. Because vectors are not size dependent a design could be used on a small card but then scaled to the size of a billboard without a loss in quality. Another thing to note is that vector can be easily converted to raster but it is a one way transfer as raster cannot be converted back without difficulty.n horizontal-rule Adobe Bridge n Bridge handles asset management. Or in other words it is an organizer for photos and designs within the Adobe Creative Suite. It alsoes with the standalone version of Photoshop. Bridge is used for batch file utility functions such as renaming files or editing other meta data on the camera raw IPTC and XMP level. Bridge isn necessarily a program used for creating or making visual edits to actual content. Rather think of it as a handy assistant for all other Adobe software.n horizontal-rule Adobe Dreamweaver n The way I ex Dreamweaver to most of my friends is that it is a graphical version of Notepad++ . It highlights syntax and shows you a rough preview of what your code will look like at the same time. Many of its tools automatically generate the necessary code when using the visual side of the program. There isn much else to it except that it integrates with the rest of the Adobe suite and supports the following languages ActionScript ASP C# CSS ColdFusion EDML XHTML XML XSLT HTML Java JavaScript PHP VB VBScript and WML.n horizontal-rule Adobe Fireworks n Fireworks is an interesting creature. Like Illustrator it works primarily with vector graphics with some marginal bitmap editing available. But Fireworks ispletely web and mobile application development oriented. Fireworks has the ability to make just about any graphic interactive and it allow you to create both wireframes and object behaviors. With that said it is really geared towards developers and less towards artists. But there are examples of artists who use Fireworks almost exclusively such as The Oatmeal webics . And artist Jose Rivera uses Fireworks almost exclusively for all of his work found here . Overall it is a useful program to have in any graphic artist arsenal. Even though it lacks some of the vector editing capabilities of Illustrator Fireworks is able to create brilliant user interfaces websites and interactive websites in a vector or bitmap format. horizontal-rule n Adobe Prelude n Prelude is a video tool for the cut-and-edit guy before sending off the footage to the production team. If you have hours of footage to go through it would take forever to do it in Premier. That is where Preludees in to save the day. Prelude can log videos tag transcode and search through footage quickly. If there a particular scene or shot that you need to find Prelude can find it almost instantly. Prelude isn for editing it is for screening clips and organizing them.n horizontal-rule Adobe After Affects n After Affects has been leading the videopositing program industry since the 9. It is used for adding visual effects to videos or animations. After Affects can also be used to create animations of both andplex characters. Other things like adding clips into a clip or overlaying green-screense with ease. A quick run through YouTube will show kids using After Affects to add lightning strikes glowing eyes and lightsabers to their Affects packs some of the most powerful editing tools available for video such as the Rotobrush which lets you automatically paint a character out of any background you choose in minutes vs. hours of manual frame-by-frame editing. All of these features make the program hardware intensive so be sure to have at least 8GB of ram and a ton of CPU power before trying to use Affects can do a lot and even though it is easy easily overshadowed by programs like Flame and Smoke Advanced it won burn a $6 hole in your pocket like the latter.n horizontal-rule Adobe Premiere Pro n Premier Pro is used to edit and cut video tracks and then export them in the desired format. The project panel allows you to grab individual clips and add them to a timeline to create a movie. Titles can be added elements from the rest of the Adobe suite can be added and color corrections can be applied. It wasn until recently that Premiere started to receive a lot of attention. It was with version CS5.5 the Mercury Playback Engine was refined and allowed for faster performance that takes advantage of GPU-acceleration and multi-core recently Adobe Premiere Pro has failed to make much of an impression on a broadcast market dominated by Avid and Apple. In all honestly older versions weren that great. But that all changed with the introduction of the Mercury Playback Engine and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 takes the app to the next level. Now it is used by professionals across the video editing industry.n horizontal-rule Adobe Photoshop n Photoshop is the go-to s 458 64 Media Encoder lets you save media for almost any screen or device. It supports multiple formats including FLV F4vV and . Media can simultaneously be saved in multiple outputs for optimal playback on a variation of resolutions and devices. Cue points can be added to playback to trigger presentation specific actions. Video can also be resized or cropped within Media Encoder. Metadata editing is supported in the most recent version and will pass information to the rest of the Adobe suite.