Printing
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and typesetting program that can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, and books. It allows for the creation, preflight, and publishing of appealing documents for print and digital media. What makes InDesign the best for prints is that you can create .EPS files which is an ideal program for print-ready artwork.
Websites
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development tool that gives its users a fast and easy way to create, design, code and publish responsive websites and web applications. Dreamweaver also allows planning of website functions and elements, design of all the website’s style elements, building of constituent pages by coding, previews of designs as well as receiving feedback, coding shortcuts/suggestions, and error checking and hints while designing the website.
Photos
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics and digital imaging editing tool that can be used to create as well as enhance photos, illustrations, and artwork. Though it can complete almost any graphic design project, it is best as an image editor that works great especially with tasks such as adjusting brightness, colorizing, cutting elements, and blending multiple images into collages. It is also a very user-friendly software that provides resources for both pros and beginners. Photoshop also partners with various other programs classified under the “Adobe Photoshop Family” such as Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix, Photoshop Sketch and Photoshop Mix.
Animations
Adobe Animate, or previously Flash, is a computer animation program that can be used to design vector graphics and animation for television, video games, online videos, web applications, and websites. It can also be used for publishing animations to multiple platforms an creating various moving multimedia content. Animate also allows its users to do all its designing such as sketching and coding inside the software. Animate is best used for 2D style animations. It assists in bringing cartoons and banner ads to life as well as add action to tutorials and infographics.
Videos
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing program for film, television, and the web that crafts and edits footage into polished media for exporting. It allows for editing in any format that is automatically optimized for any screen or platform, integration with partner programs to edit without leaving the Premiere program. It will also assist in speeding up the more time-consuming tasks of video editing as well as allow you to adjust the video aspects itself as well as the audio aspects.
Emily Ramirez 