{"id":3906,"date":"2025-01-17T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/?page_id=3906"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:12:49","slug":"software-for-imaging-web-graphics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/software-for-imaging-web-graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It&#8217;s good to know about the varieties of basic software for imaging, graphics, web, animation and other visual communications applications.\u00a0 The * below indicates apps we are using in the class.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Adobe apps:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Photoshop<\/strong> &#8212; Edit and format still pictures; also some limited capabilities with animated gifs and short videos.\u00a0 \u00a0Alternatives:\u00a0 Lots of free alternatives are out there, such as Gimp and Photopea, but professional production often requires the power of Photoshop.\u00a0 Output to a wide range of image formats, including jpg, gif, png, webp, tif, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>InDesign<\/strong> &#8211; Page layout for print and web publications. Essential for professional production. Not many good alternatives.\u00a0 Outputs to PDF, Ebook reader and other formats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Premier<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 Powerful video editing app. Alternatives include Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Output to all video formats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audition<\/strong> &#8211; Audio editing. Lots of good alternatives, including Audacity (free) and MOTU, among others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Illustrator<\/strong> &#8212; Create, edit and format illustrations. Output to jpg, svg, tif.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acrobat &#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; Free reader for PDFs. Also commercial version can edit PDFs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridge<\/strong> &#8211; Works with Photoshop to display and organize large numbers of photos.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lightroom<\/strong> &#8211; Still image editor. Sometimes used in place of Photoshop.<\/li>\n<li><strong>After Effects<\/strong> &#8211; Motion graphics editor and animator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animate<\/strong> &#8211; Interactive animations for games, apps and the web. Works with Character Animator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>InCopy<\/strong> &#8211; Team software for InDesign work on publications production.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dreamweaver<\/strong> &#8211; Older software for web design and production.\u00a0 Outputs to html pages for upload to static web sites.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Substance<\/strong> &#8211; Variety of 3D animation applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know about the varieties of basic software for imaging, graphics, web, animation and other visual communications applications.\u00a0 The * below indicates apps we are using in the class.\u00a0 Adobe apps:\u00a0\u00a0 Photoshop &#8212; Edit and format still pictures; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/software-for-imaging-web-graphics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3906\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}