I’m going to wait until I get to Newscaster Vocalizer Review talking about how we do our newsletters to say anything about alternatives to InDesign. As you probably can tell, I do a lot of photography. If you do a lot of photography or just do some and want to streamline the whole process, then I recommend Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. However at a price tag of $300, unless you do a lot of photography and need to edit your photos a lot, then you may just want to stick with doing this in a cheaper/free graphics program. There is a free program out there called DarkTable that tries to mimic some of the features of Lightroom. You can give it a try. I used it for about a week off and on before I decided to fork out the cash for Lightroom.
Since I’m putting this list together, I might as well add this. If you want to do some stylized photos and want to try some HDR, then check out Photomatix. It’s gotta a pretty price tag on it too – the Pro version is $100. But they do have another version that sells around $40 I believe. But if you’re going to get it, go all out. If you want to do some HDR, there are some alternatives. Nik’s software has a piece of software called HDR Efex Pro, however, it’s more than Photomatix. There’s three free alternatives that I know of, but they are free and it kind of shows. There’s Luminance HDR or QTPFSGUI as it’s also called, Picturenaut, and Essential HDR.
To make our newsletters we have used several different programs in the past. At one point we were using MS Publisher, which is what we currently use to make our e-letter. To do that, we create it in MS Publisher, then export it to MS Outlook to send out through email via MS Office’s features. Currently though, we use Apple’s Pages, which is part of Apple’s iWork suite. We occasionally Adobe InDesign as well whenever we do magazines. Scribus is a free, open-source program for page layout that you could use as an alternative to those. If you want a free, open-source office suit, try Open Office.
To edit our CD messages, we use SoundForge. However we used to use the free Audacity program. And for all of our video editing we use Final Cut Studio. Apple just came out with a new version of Final Cut Pro, which we don’t care for really. We’ve decided to stick with version 7 for all of our stuff. So for all of our video production, we use Final Cut Pro to do the editing and importing.
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