Designing Menus/Brochure?, I need a good designing program. |
 Sep 23 2008, 05:59 PM
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A friend wanted me to help her find a program (free --> free trials would be what I'd need right now) which could help her design take-out menus.
I'm looking for a program that can help me design/edit/make a 3fold brochure. (Think a flyer or a brocure for something, one page folded in 3 parts.) You know what that looks like, right? Well on Microsoft they only have 2fold brochures. And my friend wants a brochure that can fold into 3 sections. So she'll have room to put her stuff. This is supposed to be a take-out menu. Can you help me find a program that will do that? Thank you. :) |
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Sep 23 2008, 07:52 PM
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 show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
Your best bet is InDesign. InDesign is an Adobe program that is made for printing projects, such as newspaper, magazines, etc.
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/?promoid=BPDEI |
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Sep 23 2008, 08:02 PM
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 in a matter of time Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,151 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 191,357 |
Adobe InDesign for sure. A staple for desktop publishing, i.e., anything to do with newspapers, magazine layouts, menus, brochures, etc...an industry standard.
It's pricey though (if you get it legally lol), and a little hard to grasp if you're using it for the first time. So I would advise fiddling around with Photoshop if you can. It's not a perfect program for what you want to do, but it will definitely suffice; more so than MS Word. |
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Sep 23 2008, 09:03 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
Well, I just realized something. Yes, InDesign would be the best suited program for you, but Publisher is the ' Microsoft InDesign '. Try that program.
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Sep 24 2008, 06:10 PM
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 Naomi loves you. Y'all may call me NaNa Group: Official Designer Posts: 2,925 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 427,774 |
Try Publisher, it helps you do it, you almost don't need to know anything about the program to use and easy to teach yourself plus there's tutorials. InDesign is a good program or QuarkXPress. If you need help in either program, you can PM me.
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Sep 24 2008, 08:52 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 786 Joined: Dec 2006 Member No: 488,341 |
Really? Microsoft Publisher has 3 fold brochures.
Unless your talking about something else. |
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Sep 24 2008, 08:57 PM
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 Has a PhD in horribleness Group: Member Posts: 866 Joined: Sep 2008 Member No: 686,301 |
Yeah I'm pretty sure Microsoft Office Publisher would work fine for what you need.
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Sep 24 2008, 11:31 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
QUOTE(ForgiveTheSinner @ Sep 24 2008, 08:52 PM)  Really? Microsoft Publisher has 3 fold brochures. Unless your talking about something else. Yeah, I had to use that program for a "Must-do-in-school-on-crappy-school-computers" project. Had to do a pamphlet thing on I think Greece, if I remember correctly. |
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Sep 25 2008, 10:46 PM
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 define our lives for us. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 11,656 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 43,293 |
Lol, I used InDesign to do my brochure. :D
To design (graphic-wise), you could use Illustrator and Photoshop (try their trials) and import them into InDesign for best quality, since you can easily import .ai and .psd files from InDesign. Well, my school comes with those programs, so I'm not sure what other files you can import. Obviously images (jpeg, png, bmp, etc), but from experience, I've found that the quality lowers because of that, so I open up it in Illustrator and vector it for best quality. |
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