Nowadays, designing has gone to new age of advanced technology that utilizes computers and programming. As a designer used to handling tangible products such as ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating. With all that computer code and HTML tags and styles, it's no wonder that most designers break out in cold sweat every time they are forced to put computer code around a text in a Word document to get layout they want.

To help designers and artists alike to make their lives simpler, Adobe offers a complete package that brings designs straight from concept to online world. On other hand, Corel has also introduced new programs to help ease burden of creating works of art with use of computer.

The new applications ensure that every designer's nightmare will be gone, helping him/her to sleep more soundly at night. These programs can help designers utilize simple sites quickly and effectively.

The CS Advantage…

The new Adobe Creative Suite combines Adobe's graphics applications and an efficient workflow that answers needs of nearly every creative professional, from conceptualization to implementation, from print to Web. Not only do designers get one program at a time; rather, a whole suite of latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software. It also includes new Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software to Acrobat Professional.

The Creative Suite is Adobe's attempt to bind applications together. Now, Adobe's creative products use not only same graphics engine but also same type and color-management engines. Files that are created in one application can open easily in others with all their features intact. With a consistent user interface, moving from one application to another is easy.

And holding it all together is new file-management and version-tracking technology Version Cue. The Version Cue lets you create and publish content for print and Web faster, more easily, and more affordably. That's why Adobe is introducing this one whole package as "the complete design environment for print and Web publishing".

Adobe Photoshop for image editing- easily manage your images with improved File Browser, quickly share design variations with Layer Comps, and instantly improve contrast with Shadow/Highlight correction; perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images and monitor changes to your image in Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments.

Inkjet or laser printer in our desktop is ideal for printing everyday, personalized materials such as letters, memos, reports, and likes. It is also perfect for small quantities of materials such as proposals and formal reports. Normally, we do not use our desktop printer for producing finished copies of business cards, posters, brochures, and other pieces that are printed in large quantities on a printing press. They surely can be printed on a desktop printer, but may appear of lower quality.

Need bulk copies of a catalog, brochure, or direct mail piece? Check into a local or regional printer with a web press. The palpable difference between a sheetfed press and a web press is that a web press prints on rolls of paper instead of sheets of paper. They are huge machines that not only print piece but fold, bind, and trim it in one cycle.

Many of us take jobs that have need of more than a few copies down street to type of quick-copy shop you find in a storefront or as an extension of your local office-supply store. The decisive point is that they use a high-quality, high-speed versions of office copiers and they rarely use printing presses.

Adhering ink to paper is different than adhering toner to paper--printing quality, in general, is better compared to copier quality. In addition, having a job reproduced on a copier can be more expensive than having it printed on a printing press.

As a matter of fact, if you regularly print over 1000 pieces at a quick-copy chain, you’ll save money by finding a commercial printer with a printing press.

You often pay a premium for convenience and speed of a quick-copy operation so don’t be hesitant to insist on good quality. At its best, a system such as Xerox DocuTech is capable of producing crisp, clear, copies so you shouldn't settle for less.

When dealing with copy shops and small printers, find out who will print your project. Be sure to ask early on if a printer has equipment to reproduce your project in-house. If they are sending it out, you may get a better price by going direct one who does work.

Complex black and white and all solid-color, mainly 2- and 3-color, work typically requires better quality of an offset printing press. Many types of projects such as booklets, brochures, newsletters, letterheads, business cards, and envelopes fall into this category. The process is more expensive than a copier because a paper, polymer, or metal plate must be made from your artwork or computer file.

An offset press reproduces fine detail and subtleties of high-resolution photographs and artwork better than a copier; it does a far better job reproducing large gray tones and solid areas of color; and, because it can print larger sheet sizes, your design can extend or "bleed" off edge of paper.

There are two ways to turn up at matching a specific color. You can choose a specific ink color that matches it, called a "solid" PANTONE® Color or you can combine four standard colors to match it as closely as possible, referred to as "process" colors. The alternative method is to print job using 4-color process. The process colors are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK). This combination of colors can be screened to represent just about any color value across spectrum. Four-color process is best for printing color photographs and any other material that contains a range of colors that cannot be reproduced using two or three solid colors. The limitation of 4-color process is that it cannot reproduce some colors as vividly, and is typically more expensive than solid color method.