What do web designers use each of the CS5 Adobe Suite products for?

[Guest Sonshine]

Hello,

 

I am currently a web design student and in school learning the Adobe CS5 software products. I was wondering what you seasoned designers use? For which portion of your design and purpose. I have the CS5 suite and would like to hear practically what works best in work flow for each of the different programs

 

On my Mac:

 

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Fireworks CS5

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5

Adobe Flash CS5

Adobe Illustrator CS5

Adobe InDesign CS5

Adobe Media Encoder CS5

Adobe Photoshop CS5

Adobe Extension Manager CS5

Adobe Bridge CS5

Adobe Device Central CS5

Adobe Media Player

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

Adobe Reader

 

Thanks,

Michele:rolleyes:

 

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[falkencreative]

I think it all depends on the designer and the project. For web work, I primarily use Photoshop -- I don't really use Flash or Fireworks and I don't use Dreamweaver since I prefer to use Coda. For logo work and one page documents I use Illustrator, for multipage documents I use InDesign, and for creating the occasional PDF I use Acrobat Pro. The rest of the programs I hardly use at all.

[grabenair]

Well first I would not call me a seasoned designer, only about two years experience spending all my time learning. With that in mind this is only what I do. First I agree with Ben as it is what you prefer as a designer. For a text editor I use Komodo Edit and Dreamweaver depends on what I am doing. If I have a site with a lot of photos or imgs of some kind I use Dreamweaver because I like the split view to line things up with out having to keep going back and forth to the browser to see what I am doing. Personally I like Fireworks better because I like the interface better but I use photoshop for all img editing. As far as the other programs like flash I have used very little. With the out coming of html5 the use for these programs should become less needed. By the way cheers for html5 and all the plugins. I am using html5 for a site that I am designing for a dirtbike racer, I think that I am going to start using more now that IE9 supports it. I learned the start of html5 from this site thanks guys! Hops this helps you a little and not makes it more confusing.