Comments on: InDesign vs. Photoshop? No kidding.

By: snappylee

snappylee — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:13:05 +0000

Thanks for the interesting comparison…

By: No Photographer

No Photographer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:41:42 +0000

@A Photographer:

It seems to me that InDesign didn’t crop any of the photos, it just rotated those with portrait orientation. I’m fine with that.

By: A Photographer

A Photographer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:59:24 +0000

From a photographer’s standpoint your example does not have a winner. Both contact sheets are awful. Photoshop is ugly in layout, but accomplishes the purpose of a contact sheet, which is to view the full photos.

Your InDesign example is neater, but so what? It crops the photos to where they are useless to show to a client to gage which photos need to be selected. How are you supposed to tell composition on the InDesign contact sheet?

There are extension for PS that have far better contact sheets. You can even try Lightroom, but it seems that when it comes to contact sheets, Adobe has no champion.

By: Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorials — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:22:52 +0000

It’s interesting that Photoshop still sticks with that god awful contact sheet it has. You’d think that the masters of design (Adobe) would be able to proucde something a little better than that for their flagship product. Perhaps they have a higher view of their Indesign users?

By: PSU calc

PSU calc — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:46:43 +0000

Great tips, thanks for the good work!

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:46:59 +0000

thx for the tips

By: simon

simon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:46:07 +0000

“Somebody actually had the idea to pit InDesign’s image editing features against those in Photoshop. Go figure. I guess it makes sense because it really is easier to stay in one application—especially if you need to do something fairly simple. That somebody is one Mike McHugh, and the title of his article is InDesign vs. Photoshop Smackdown: Who Will Be the Winner? It’s on the Peachpit website. ‘
thx a lot , good post!

By: sergey

sergey — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:15:57 +0000

Very nice! Thanks

By: ckinfo

ckinfo — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:34:12 +0000

Thanks, good work

greetings from germany

By: Firewalker

Firewalker — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:58:27 +0000

From the comparison that you shows to us, it is clear that InDesign is taking the lead. Still, this one isn’t matters anymore since CS3 provides us with flexibility to transfer works across Adobe CS3 software.