Disclaimer: This is my opinion; you might have yours.
There has been this argument on what’s the best tool to use in graphic design. Creativity is all that it takes. There are so many softwares for designing but very little creativity in the world. Graphics design is broad, let me narrow it down and talk about creativity in book publishing software.
Today, there are many different software designers can use to come up with the best book design. But then, why do we have so many different books. The fact is that it is not because people use different software. Here is a list of few best book publishing software.
- FlipHTML5
- Adobe InDesign
- QuarkXPress
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Scribus
The softwares are designed to serve the same purpose. All of them pick fonts from your computer, they all have blank pages for the start, they all have the same measurement for book size design. Then, why is it that books have different design? It’s all about creativity.
Creativity is a very powerful tool that I think everyone is born with. It is all about how we nature it to be the best. It is said creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something. Creativity is very crucial for business success. The act of turning new or existing ideas to create a new reality commonly known as creativity always involves two processes: thinking, then producing.
The problem with our population is that we have people who are very imaginative but not creative. This is because they have ideas but don’t act on them. In the design context, it is our ability to get into our imagination and create a reality and the softwares are just there to help us get it out to the world. It doesn’t matter which software you use, as long as you are creative, you’ll always get good software you’re comfortable to use.
