Random Design Thoughts

Looking through the majority of my blog post you can more than likely tell that my favorite program to use is InDesign. This mostly has to do with the easy way that Indesign is set up and there isn't too many restrictions that will pop up with indesign. Usually any errors you will get in indesign is ones that you should have known will happen once you place anything into indesign from another source. If you are creating something from scratch in indesign, then more than likely you will not have any errors besides the occasional overset text that comes from basic human error.

Photoshop and Illustrator definitely have a lot of restrictions while using them. Both will have certain restrictions on editing depending on the type of original source that you are using. Photoshop for instance won't let you completely editing the main image before you make a mask on it to edit over that. But this is a good thing to do in photoshop. 

If you are editing an image, specifically of the face, don't just edit the main picture. Sometimes while editing you will realize that what you are doing just doesn't work well and you might want to back up a few steps. Or even comparing between the original and the editing one is a lot easier to do you you are just editing a mask over the original image. Using the mask you are able to turn it off or on so see the differences. Also when erasing or adding back parts of the image you are able to do that quickly but just using the erase tool and toggling between the main background image and the mask you are editing. The video above does a good job in explaining why one should utilize a mask!