Adobe Photoshop Classes

• CS6 Complete£260
• Elements Complete£200
• CS6 5h£150
• Elements 5h£160
• Lightroom 5h£160

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About Adobe Photoshop

In Short

Adobe Photoshop has long been considered essential software for graphic design. It is sold on its own, or as part of Adobe’s Creative Suite, which also includes Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro and several other tools. Photoshop’s primary functions include photo editing, website design, and the creation of elements for any type of project. It is also commonly used to create layouts for design, such as posters and business cards, although Illustrator or InDesign are often better for those tasks.

Photo Editing

Photoshop is called Photoshop for a reason… it is an excellent tool for editing photos. If a designer is preparing a digital or scanned photograph for use in a project, whether it be a website, brochure, book design or packaging, the first step is often to bring it into Photoshop. Using a variety of tools within the software, a designer can:

• Crop photos
• Resize photos
• Adjust and correct colors
• Touch-up photos, such as “erasing” a blemish or removing a tear or fold
• Apply a large selection of filters such as “watercolor” for special effects and styles
• Optimize photos for the web by choosing file formats and reducing file size
• Save photos in a variety of formats for use in print projects
• Use their creativity to perform countless tasks

Website Design

Photoshop is the preferred tool for many web designers. While it is capable of exporting HTML, it is often not used to code websites, but rather to design them before moving on to the coding stage. It is common to first design a flat, non-functioning website in Photoshop, and then take that design and create a functioning website using Dreamweaver, a CSS editor, by hand coding, or using a variety of software options. This is because it is easy to drag elements around the page, adjust colors and add elements without spending time on writing code that may just have to change later. Along with creating entire layouts in Photoshop, a designer can:

• Optimize graphics for use online
• Slice up graphics into a collection of images
• Export multiples versions of graphics for mouse rollovers
• Design individual elements such as buttons or backgrounds

Project Layout

As mentioned above, software such as InDesign and Illustrator (among others) is ideal for layout, or desktop publishing. However, Photoshop is more than sufficient for doing this type of work. The Adobe Creative Suite is an expensive package, so many designers may start with Photoshop and expand later. Projects such as business cards, posters, postcards and flyers can be completed using Photoshop’s type tools and graphics editing capabilities. Many print shops will accept Photoshop files or at least a PDF, which can be exported out of the software. Larger projects such as books or multi-page brochures should be done in other programs.

Graphics Creation

The Adobe developers have spent years creating the Photoshop tools and interface, which improve with each release. The ability to create custom paint brushes, add effects such as drop shadows, work with photos, and a wide variety of tools make Photoshop a great tool for creating original graphics. These graphics may stand-alone on their own, or they may be imported into other programs for use in any type of project. Once a designer masters the Photoshop tools, creativity and imagination determine what can be created.

Photoshop vs Elements vs Lightroom

The Adobe® Photoshop® family of products gives you everything you need to bring out the best in your digital images, transform them into anything you can imagine, and showcase them in extraordinary ways.

Photoshop CS

Create incredible images using the world's best digital imaging software. 3D editing and image analysis tools now included. Always updated with the latest features.

Ideal for:

• Photographers
• Print designers
• Web designers
• Interactive designers
• Video professionals

Photoshop Lightroom

Use powerfully simple adjustments and advanced controls to organize, perfect, and share your images.

Ideal for:

• Professional and amateur photographers

Photoshop Elements

Have fun with your photos and easily share them with family and friends in photo books and web galleries.

Ideal for:

• Family memory keepers
• Photo enthusiasts

More about Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom and ways to purchese on the Adobe website

Photography Classes

• Complete 5h£120
• Composition 2.5h£75
• NightWalk 2.5h£75
• iPhone 2.5h£50

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About the classes

Today's cameras put an amazing amount of power in the hands of amateur photographers, but it's not always easy to make use of it. All those buttons, dials, and settings can be pretty intimidating. In this classes, expert photographer Adrian C. helps you understand what's going on inside your camera, explaining fundamentals like what an aperture is and how shutter speed works. Learn basics such as how to hold the camera, what various modes mean and when to use them, and even how and when to use the camera's flash. There's also creative instruction to guide you towards becoming a better photographer. As you become more comfortable with your gear, you'll find that many new creative possibilities open up for you and the quality of your photography improves.

Topics include:

• Carry and hold that camera
• Stabilizing the camera: from hands to tripods
• Using aperture, shutter speed, and ISO
• What the buttons do
• Manually controlling your autofocus
• Working with flash
• Thinking creatively
• Buying new gear

Adobe Illustrator Classes

• CS6 Complete£260
• CS6 5h£150

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator is a vector drawing program. It is often used to draw illustrations, cartoons, diagrams, charts and logos. Unlike bitmap images that stores information in a grid of dots, Illustrator uses mathematical equations to draw out the shapes. This makes vector graphics scalable without the loss of resolution.

Advantages of vector graphics

• Scalable without resolution loss
• Lines are crisp and sharp at any sizes
• Print at high resolution
• Smaller file size
• Good for drawing illustrations

Disadvantages of vector graphics

• Drawings tend to look flat and cartoon
• Hard to produce photo realistic drawings

Common Uses for Illustrator

• Designing Logos
• Drawing Maps
• Drawing Illustrations
• Infographics
• Photorealistic Drawings
• Packaging Design

More about Illustrator and ways to purchese on the Adobe website

Adobe Dreamweaver Classes

• CS6 Complete£260
• CS6 5h£150

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About Adobe Dreamweaver

What is Adobe Dreamweaver?

Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design and development application that provides a visual WYSIWYG editor (colloquially referred to as the Design view) and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features such as real-time syntax checking and code introspection for generating code hints to assist the user in writing code. The Design view facilitates rapid layout design and code generation as it allows users to quickly create and manipulate the layout of HTML elements.

Dreamweaver features an integrated browser for previewing developed webpages in the program's own preview pane in addition to allowing content to be open in locally installed web browsers. It provides transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms or regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting. The behaviors panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge, and integration with Adobe's Spry Ajax framework offers easy access to dynamically-generated content and interfaces.

Dreamweaver can use third-party "Extensions" to extend core functionality of the application, which any web developer can write (largely in HTML and JavaScript). Dreamweaver is supported by a large community of extension developers who make extensions available (both commercial and free) for most web development tasks from simple rollover effects to full-featured shopping carts. Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV.

More about Dreamweaver and ways to purchese on the Adobe website

Adobe InDesign Classes

• CS6 Complete£260
• CS6 5h£150

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About Adobe InDesign

What is Adobe InDesign?

Graphic design can be roughly split into web design and print design. Adobe InDesign is a program used to lay out documents for print. It's part of the holy print design triumvirate of Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Each of these programs has a role to play in producing pieces for print. Imagine you are assigned to create a brochure incorporating photos, line art, and copy (blocks of text). Photoshop is the program you use to edit photography, or raster art (images composed of pixels). You'd prepare the photos for the brochure in Photoshop, adjusting color, cropping them, sharpening them, and the like. Illustrator is the program you use to edit the line, or vector, art (images composed of points and Bézier curves).

The logo of the company you are producing the brochure for is likely to be vector art, and if you had to edit the logo, you'd do it in Illustrator. Of course, this could easily lead to a discussion of the sanctity of logos and how you should never have to edit a company's logo, but let's just say that some companies aren't quite on top of things and will provide you with a crappy version of their logo pulled from their website, in which case you'd offer to re-create it in Illustrator for them so their brochure doesn't look like garbage. Just saying.

Okay, so now you've got all the photos ready, you've got the logo they "provided" you by pulling some 75 x 50 pixel 72 dpi monstrosity off a website cleaned up and redrawn in Illustrator, you've been given the copy, and you've sketched out a layout. Where does it all come together?

It all comes together in InDesign, that's where.

Adobe InDesign is a Page Layout Program

InDesign is a program that allows you to lay out graphic elements on pages for print, hence the term page layout. If we continue with our brochure example, you'd create a landscape (wide) 8-1/2" x 11" page and begin importing photos, art, and text and positioning it where you want it all to be. One other very important feature of a page layout program, and InDesign's other main purpose, is its output features. InDesign is built to play well not only with desktop printers, but with the high-end printing and plating systems of real-world print shops. InDesign offers controls and settings printers use to ensure that your brochure will print properly from their mega-machines.

Photoshop and Illustrator do not offer such fine controls. If you sent a layout made in Illustrator to a printer, they'd place that Illustrator file in InDesign before running it. Do try not to send a printer a layout made in Photoshop, because while they'll also place that Photoshop file in InDesign before running it, they'll have a good laugh at your expense first.

What Can Adobe InDesign Do?

What InDesign does best is lay pages out for print. Every day, you encounter printed pieces created in InDesign. Your Cocoa Krispies box was probably laid out with InDesign, as was the catalog you received in today's mail, the cover of the CD you're playing right now, the billboard you saw on your way to work, the logo-marked company pen you "borrowed," and the calendar you keep forgetting to write appointments in.

InDesign is used to create:

• catalogs
• ads
• flyers
• direct mail
• brochures
• calendars
• specialties (pens, keychains, and other swag)
• packaging
• posters
• cd covers
• letterhead
• business cards
• sales aids
• billboards
• trade show displays
• user manuals
• books
• in-store displays
• and more.

In sum, Adobe InDesign is where printed pieces come together. In some special situations, such as long documents like books, other programs (in this case Adobe's FrameMaker) reign, but for pretty much every project a designer runs across, Adobe InDesign is the program to set it up in.

More about InDesign and ways to purchese on the Adobe website

Adobe Acrobat Classes

• Acrobat Complete£260
• Acrobat 5h£150
• Pitstop plugin+£100
• Quite Imposing+£100

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About Adobe Acrobat Pro

Adobe® Acrobat® XI Pro is more than just the leading PDF converter. It's packed with smart tools that give you even more power to communicate. Easily, seamlessly, brilliantly.

Approve with electronic signatures

Keep projects moving. E-sign your approval right on the PDF. No need to print, fax, or mail the document.

Combine files in a PDF Portfolio

Share your work in a PDF Portfolio that presents materials professionally with an interactive impact.

Remove and redact information

Don’t just black out confidential data. Find and get rid of it for good, even when hidden in metadata.

Meet PDF accessibility standards

Acrobat XI helps you create and verify PDFs that meet accessibility standards, so people with disabilities can interact with your PDFs.

About The PitStop Pro Plugin

Higher efficiency, smarter functionality, easier integration

As a publishing professional, you know that PDF files can be troublesome to work with.They are not generated as expected, do not output as expected and more often than not you have to edit the PDF even though Adobe Acrobat does not support it.

PitStop Pro now brings you a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat that offers the solution to those problems. From now on editing a PDF will be a piece of cake!

PitStop Pro comes with an impressive array of PDF editing tools:

• Edit text
• Move colors
• Move, rotate or scale objects
• ...

Impressive array of PDF editing tools

Fixing last-minute problems is now a mere matter of seconds. Even when the problem is more complicated or production oriented, PitStop Pro still has the right tool for the job.

Imagine being able to apply a template with correct trim and bleed boxes to a PDF document while at the same time inserting the printer marks you want.

PitStop Pro was developed specifically for use in a demanding, deadline-driven professional publishing environment. It won't let you down when a deadline looms and you have to fix things quickly and efficiently.

The built-in industry-standard PDF preflight engine checks all aspects of your PDF files to detect missing or corrupt fonts, incorrect colors, objects without bleed and much more…

It supports standards such as PDF/X, the Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications and the profiles created by your user association, publisher or printer. You can generate a full preflight report that lists all problems found in your files or you can choose to use the navigator to pinpoint the exact error object. The navigator can often even fix the problems for you.

Global changes to the rescue

When working with long documents or to fix problems across a number of pages in a PDF file, global changes come to the rescue.

Each global change can be customized to do exactly what you need and accomplishes changes automatically across a complete PDF file.

• Apply stamps
• Insert cover pages
• Renumber pages
• Convert all colors

... all done in just seconds.

About Quite Imposing plugin

Quite Imposing is a family of plug-ins for Adobe’s Acrobat 7, 8, 9, "X" (10) and "XI" (11). They do...Imposing. This is all about combining pages onto larger sheets to make books, booklets, or special arrangements.

The family comprises Quite Imposing and its sister product, Quite Imposing Plus so creating booklets or arranging complex imposition layouts has never been easier and all without leaving Acrobat! (High end users who don't want to use Acrobat can use our hot folder product Quite HOT Imposing)

The man in our logo on the right is doing imposing as it used to be done - manually. This was a craftsmans task which required much expertise and skill behind it. Our modern imposition tools perform at the same level of skill and are quick to learn and easy to use. They give immediate results without need for expensive training or complicated job set ups. But if you do need a little help getting started just visit our support pages to see the variety of ways to get technical help.

A particularly important feature of the plug-ins is that the combined pages are a new PDF document, giving a way to check each sheet instantly, saving time and money.

Quite Imposing Plus has many more options from duplicating pages to adding dates or page numbers and a powerful feature for setting up impositions for playing with one click.

More about Adobe Acrobat Pro and ways to purchese on the Adobe website

CorelDRAW Classes

• Corel Complete£220
• Corel 5h£120

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

About CorelDRAW

Versatile and powerful graphic design software

Whether you’re an aspiring artist or an experienced designer, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6 is your trusted graphic design software solution. With its content-rich environment and professional graphic design, photo-editing and website design software, you have everything you need to express your style and creativity with endless possibilities.

Quickly feel at home with built-in help, training videos and professionally designed templates. Then, create with confidence—everything from distinctive logos and signs to custom websites, web graphics, billboards, car wraps, flyers and more! Show your true design style!

More about CorelDRAW and ways to purchese on the Corel website

Mac OSX Classes

• MAC OSX Complete£120

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

What is an Operating System?

Not all computers have operating systems. The computer that controls the microwave oven in your kitchen, for example, doesn't need an operating system. It has one set of tasks to perform, very straightforward input to expect (a numbered keypad and a few pre-set buttons) and simple, never-changing hardware to control. For a computer like this, an operating system would be unnecessary baggage, driving up the development and manufacturing costs significantly and adding complexity where none is required. Instead, the computer in a microwave oven simply runs a single hard-wired program all the time.

For other devices, an operating system creates the ability to:

• serve a variety of purposes
• interact with users in more complicated ways
• keep up with needs that change over time

All desktop computers have operating systems. The most common are the Windows family of operating systems developed by Microsoft, the Macintosh operating systems developed by Apple and the UNIX family of operating systems (which have been developed by a whole history of individuals, corporations and collaborators). There are hundreds of other operating systems available for special-purpose applications, including specializations for mainframes, robotics, manufacturing, real-time control systems and so on.

In any device that has an operating system, there's usually a way to make changes to how the device works. This is far from a happy accident; one of the reasons operating systems are made out of portable code rather than permanent physical circuits is so that they can be changed or modified without having to scrap the whole device.

For a desktop computer user, this means you can add a new security update, system patch, new application or even an entirely new operating system rather than junk your computer and start again with a new one when you need to make a change. As long as you understand how an operating system works and how to get at it, in many cases you can change some of the ways it behaves. The same thing goes for your phone, too.

Microsoft Windows 7/8 Classes

• Windows Compleate£160

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

What is an Operating System?

Not all computers have operating systems. The computer that controls the microwave oven in your kitchen, for example, doesn't need an operating system. It has one set of tasks to perform, very straightforward input to expect (a numbered keypad and a few pre-set buttons) and simple, never-changing hardware to control. For a computer like this, an operating system would be unnecessary baggage, driving up the development and manufacturing costs significantly and adding complexity where none is required. Instead, the computer in a microwave oven simply runs a single hard-wired program all the time.

For other devices, an operating system creates the ability to:

• serve a variety of purposes
• interact with users in more complicated ways
• keep up with needs that change over time

All desktop computers have operating systems. The most common are the Windows family of operating systems developed by Microsoft, the Macintosh operating systems developed by Apple and the UNIX family of operating systems (which have been developed by a whole history of individuals, corporations and collaborators). There are hundreds of other operating systems available for special-purpose applications, including specializations for mainframes, robotics, manufacturing, real-time control systems and so on.

In any device that has an operating system, there's usually a way to make changes to how the device works. This is far from a happy accident; one of the reasons operating systems are made out of portable code rather than permanent physical circuits is so that they can be changed or modified without having to scrap the whole device.

For a desktop computer user, this means you can add a new security update, system patch, new application or even an entirely new operating system rather than junk your computer and start again with a new one when you need to make a change. As long as you understand how an operating system works and how to get at it, in many cases you can change some of the ways it behaves. The same thing goes for your phone, too.

Task Oriented Classes

• Bespoke Classes£300+

*All prices are for one to one classes. For organized groups of 4 or more students the price will drop up to 70%.

Most times using just one software is not enough or is not recomanded. Specific tasks need specific approach. I would like to cover a lot of misconceptions but most importantly the best practical approach on using “three” basic design software created by Adobe. This covers mostly the three practical softwares to use for art and design, which are, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. As more and more features get added from version upgrades and update patches, it is important as a designer to understand which software is the best solution to reach the optimal results in your freelance projects or your personal projects.

Adobe Photoshop

There are a lot of tutorials on Adobe Photoshop. As a matter of fact, there are so many tutorials that focuses on Photoshop that many people contact me or comment on this site stating that there are not enough tutorials on Illustrator or Indesign. It is a good thing that there are a lot of tutorials on Photoshop, but there are some negative side effects within widely vast available information. These tutorials help you become an expert on this software. The problem: The vast information network on Photoshop tutorials also causes people to become “too comfortable” with Photoshop and tend to “try” to do everything with Photoshop alone.

What is Photoshop?

The most important thing to know about Photoshop is that it is a pixel based program. Photoshop was primarily created in the beginning as a photograph enhancing tool and not so much anything else like it is used today. Adobe has recognized that many users were starting to use Photoshop to create elaborate UI designs, web page graphics, banner ADs, text effects and more. Adobe then started rolling out features that help designers create images for print, web, motion graphics and so on. However, again, the problem is that there are certain times when Photoshop is not needed (gasp!) to create certain projects.

Photoshop is generally used for:

• Photo enhancement/Photo color correction
• Software/Web/Mobile UI design
• Web graphics
• Motion graphics
• Special effects

Common mistakes/misconceptions

One common misconception is the idea that it is good to use Photoshop to create stationary systems and logo’s. For the sake of yourself, please take this idea outside the window. Let’s talk about business cards as an example. There is an alarming number of tutorials online that shows you how to create business cards in Photoshop. These are what I call “bad tutorials” that teaches you the wrong way of creating a business card. Despite the result and outcome of these tutorials being amazing, or perhaps you can even get it printed and it will look fine, it is a bad practice to get into an habit. Just because the result looks fine don’t mean the practice is the best way.

First off Illustrator type is by far superior in print output than Photoshop is. Yes Photoshop can output type, and even in vector “paths”. Yes Photoshop can bring in vector objects as “smart objects”. Yes Photoshop can draw paths using the pen tool. But the most important thing out of all this is that IN THE END, it is outputted as pixel data. Yes I am aware that it also depends on the file output. For instance, .TIFF does not output vector data but does output layer information and transparency. But .EPS does support vector output, yet it still doesn’t mean this is the best practice to do so. So should you never use Photoshop to create business cards? There are times you actually want to use Photoshop to create business cards.

When it is justified to use Photoshop for business cards and other print projects

If your business cards contain any textures, photography, special effects, blurs (not that I am encouraging this), or any type of pixel based design, Photoshop is obviously the best way to go. However, remember to output ANY pixel based art work in 300 ppi resolution with CMYK color mode. Do not output it RGB. If you have Photoshop filters in your artwork, changing your work to CMYK mode, or even applying certain filters in CMYK mode seem to look desaturated or not look too good.

The work around to this: Create all your special effects, filter effects, etc in RGB mode. Flatten the work (merge layers) after you feel that your work in Photoshop is complete, and change the color mode to CMYK. Again, you will regret not switching color modes to CMYK after you send it off to the printer. Your result will look significantly different than you hoped for.

When you should never use Photoshop for print projects

For the love of all things that you love, do not use Photoshop to set type in your print projects. It is important to note that I am not saying you should never use the type tool in Photoshop. I am stating that it is not a good idea to use it in print projects.

Never use Photoshop to create logo’s. The obvious reason is because pixel data cannot be enlarged without distortion. If you create the logo in vector format, your logo will be scalable to any size forever.

Adobe Illustrator

What is Adobe Illustrator

Well as the program states, Adobe Illustrator is a vector based drawing program. It is primarily used to create vector graphics that require to be scalable in print and for future uses. Adobe Illustrator is very similar to drawing programs like Adobe Fireworks (Macromedia Fireworks in the early 2000′s), and Corel Draw. It is superior in creating logo’s and logotype, and has an awesome type setting system within the program. Adobe Illustrator does one thing Photoshop can never meet up to its standard, and that is vector output. Whatever you create in Illustrator is scalable to the infinite power.

Illustrator is generally used for:

• Logo/Logotype/Monogram/Insignia design
• Type setting for stationary systems/print campaigns
• Web graphics
• Motion graphics
Vector paintings/Illustrations

Common mistakes/misconceptions

Although Illustrator can be used to create websites in the fullest degree, Photoshop is still ideally the best program in creating UI designs and other graphical elements for your website. Of course it will not be as harmful as creating business cards in Photoshop, but you will quickly find that the snapping feature in Photoshop is much precise in terms of pixels than Illustrator is.

Illustrator cannot do animation. If you are looking to do flash animation, Illustrator will not do this for you. The best practice is to create graphics in Illustrator and bring them into Flash for the principle animation.

Illustrator filters do not work the same way as Photoshop filters. You will be surprised in how many people think the filters work the same way as Photoshop. This is false.

The prime time to use Illustrator

As stated above, Illustrator is excellent for logo design, trademark design, logotype, type setting stationary systems, and creating greeting cards or wedding invitations.

After the release of Illustrator CS4, it is now possible to create simple to complex brochures, annual reports, and even books in Illustrator CS4 and up. The only draw back to this is that it does not have master page utility in Illustrator like Indesign. It also does not support book templates and page numbers like Indesign. Although Illustrator CS4 and up has support for multiple artboards to create “pages”, it is simply there to create short page brochures, or when you want to output multiple PDF pages of your design variations to show your clients.

Illustrator also has cross platform compatibility with Aftereffects. Importing .EPS files that contain text drawn in Illustrator is essentially better than importing .TIFF files that contain text drawn in Photoshop. Aftereffects support vector data to a certain degree during production (continuous rasterize).

Adobe Indesign

There isn’t much confusion making when it comes to Adobe Indesign. Since Adobe Indesign itself is pretty specific in terms of what it can do and what it doesn’t do, while Photoshop and Indesign both share similar tools, interface, and abilities to create web graphics to in almost identical level.

Indesign is generally used for:

• Editorial design
• Book design
• Multiple page brochures
• Annual reports
• Interactive PDF documents

Common mistakes/misconceptions

Although it is possible to “draw” objects in Indesign, it is not superior to drawing as it is with Illustrator. You should not draw elements in Indesign, but instead, use programs such as Illustrator or Photoshop to draw out the elements and import them into Indesign. Indesign also does not have filters like Photoshop. Creating a logo in Indesign is next to impossible.

Although there isn’t much misconception with Indesign, there is much wide spread debate about Illustrator having better layout support than Indesign. Indesign however has better layout support, if not, identical to Illustrator.

When to use Indesign

If your project consist of a print project that has multiple pages or a master layout, Indesign has the master page function to do this. Indesign also has excellent support for 3 column layouts and so on. Creating type wrap in Indesign is much straightforward than Illustrator.

Illustrator vs. Indesign

• Illustrator does not have master pages.
• Illustrator cannot define page numbers.
• Indesign cannot draw objects as well as Illustrator.
• Indesign does not have filters, as Illustrator does.
• Indesign has superior type wrapping tools, while it maybe a bit confusing with Illustrator.

Illustrator vs. Photoshop

• Illustrator has superior vector support, while Photoshop has limited.
• Illustrator does better page layout than Photoshop.
• Illustrator does not handle pixel art the same way as Photoshop does in terms of effects.
• Photoshop is superior for photo enhancing.
• Photoshop creates precise pixel based UI designs compared to Illustrator.
• Illustrator supports multiple page output for PDF while Photoshop does not.
• Photoshop layers is much straight forward than Illustrator. Organizing elements is much easier in Photoshop because of this.
• Illustrator supports the “Place” (Importing graphics) command through dynamic file linking. Photoshop’s “Place” command is strictly embedded into the .PSD file and is not linked. This means that you can make changes to a certain file outside of Illustrator and you can reflect the changes in Illustrator using the Links panel. In Photoshop, whatever you place is permanent (credit to Kjell-Roger Ringstad for noticing this).
• Illustrator exports .EPS file formats better than Photoshop.

Indesign vs. Photoshop

• Indesign creates page layouts while Photoshop does not.
• Indesign links elements or design objects from various locations in your hard drive. Photoshop does not. It is all placed in the document.
• Indesign supports multiple pages for PDF and print. Photoshop is all one document.
• Photoshop has filter effects while Indesign is limited.
• Indesign supports XML, Photoshop does not.
• Indesign supports vectors, imports .AI and .EPS with vector data encoded. In Photoshop this gets converted to paths or pseudo vector. The final output is still pixel based.

The above is just an example and best practice for print. If your would like to build webpages then Dreamweaver in combination with Photoshop and Illustrator it's probably the corect aproach. Please let us know what your end result is and will tailor a class to help you get there.