I need to create some literature to hand out to interested customers, what else can I use besides Microsoft's Publisher?

Looking for something to create professional looking handouts, flyers, etc.

Why not use Photoshop? I would help you out for free.

We used www.acidflyers.com to print out our flyers. They offer design service as well. We designed our own flyers by simply using Photoshop. You may also want to try www.psprint.com. We might actually go with PsPrint for our newer flyer set since they currently offer lower rates.

Ah, didn't even think about photoshop, I guess I could do that.

I was looking for something like Publisher, but I think I'll give photoshop a shot now.

Thanks :)

Or Adobe Pagemaker....

it depends on the level of graphics that you will put into this literature...

ou can create handouts in MSWord if is simple / more copy based... or Quark for mass/professional print production of the flyers or Photoshop if it is graphic heavy and for mass/professional print production

If you want to go all out I recommend using Adobe Photoshop to design your collateral and GotPrint for printing them. GotPrint can print everything from business cards to brochurs to flyers to anything else that can be printed.

http://www.gotprint.net

Since this is your first time designing your own collateral and sending them to a professional printer online, I suggest you take a look at the following two pages on the GotPrint web site:

http://gotprint.net/gotprint/showStaticPage.do?page=preparing_files.html

http://gotprint.net/gotprint/showStaticPage.do?page=download_templates.html

The first web site address above gives you complete instructions on how to properly prepare your file(s) to ensure the best quality in the printing results. The second web site address above allows you to download templates that can be opened with any image editing software, including Adobe Photoshop, which makes designing your printed materials really easy. If worst comes to worst, GotPrint does even offer graphic design services if you want an "all-in-one solution" but since we do professional design ourselves we have never used that service from them.

Microsoft Publisher is one of the easier programs you can use. Photoshop will make much detailed borchures and flyers however you really need to know how to use that program, while Publisher is bascially just a 1-2-3 step type program.

Publisher is very easy to use, but you'll be able to do more by using Photoshop. I've used Publisher + a local copy shop (not any of the national chains) to do flyers before, but now, I can design something way more stunning using Photoshop.

Although I am sure you can afford the $500+ for Photoshop but the learning curve for it is not an easy one. I suggest you hire someone either on this forum to make you a brochure (that already has Photoshop) or use something like this:

http://www.designoutpost.com/

I started working with Photoshop 5, and there was another learning curve when I upgraded to 7. However, you can pretty much teach yourself all of the basics within a few weeks by just screwing around or reading tutorials. The price may seem a little steep, as well, but we've found that it's more than worth it for all of the work we do with it.

I too agree that Photoshop is hard to use at first. You can always practice with some tutorials from http://www.pixel2life.com

The best place to go to make custom, quality, most cost-efficient, business cards is printsmadeeasy. They specialize in designing custom postcards, business cards, stationery, labels, brochures, invitations, envelopes, flyers, greeting cards, letterhead, pens, & labels.

Why not use Photoshop?


ewww. That would be improper use of Photoshop. You need to use InDesign for desktop publishing. By all means create and edit your graphics in Photoshop but you need InDesign for the design and layout.

As this thread was from 2005 before it was revived here, I'm guessing they found a way to make what they needed. </thread>