I also want to be able create graphics on the flyer. Can anybody tell me the differences in features between the two and what are their uses?
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Photoshop. Illustrator is a drawing program so it wouldn’t work nearly as good as Photoshop for designing a flier.
Neither. Both.
You generally use the two programs together, Photoshop to do the photo editing and Illustrator to lay out the text and graphic elements and Place the photos from Photoshop.
Photoshop is poor at text editing, Illustrator is way better for line art and text.
Indesign.
Photoshop is for image manipulation and illustrator is for vector graphics. Photoshop manipulates images and illustrator lets you draw lines. Photoshop incorporates enough of the basic functionality of illustrator that you could live without illustrator.
For designing flyers you would want to use a layout program such as Adobe’s Indesign, QuarkXpress or Scribus (Open Source). You’d layout your flyer design using this program and insert the graphic you made with Photoshop or Illustrator.
Use Illustrator for a single-page flyer. It allows you to work with a blank artboard. You add shapes, text and images.
You can print Illustrator files to .PDFs and combine them with Acrobat to make multi-page documents. However if you are making a multi-page flyer (or catalogue etc) then use InDesign, which allows for multi-page files.
Use Photoshop to tweak images (pictures) – then Place the images into your Illustrator artboard or InDesign document.