Rush to Publish
Weaving a spring-tight narrative of pictures and words was made that much more challenging by the team’s self-set publishing deadline. “We gave ourselves 100 days to get it done, starting on Inauguration Day,” says Smolan. “Obama had his agenda; we had ours.”
Feeling the pinch of that deadline, Rylander nevertheless turned the book out quickly, using Adobe Creative Suite for Mac to create custom scripts (InDesign), to proof pages (Acrobat), and to fine tune layout (Photoshop). “My go-to design tools are Adobe CS4, specifically Photoshop and Illustrator,” says Rylander. “To pull this off, all the apps had to work in concert, and they performed as advertised.”
via Apple – Pro – Profiles – Rick Smolan, pg. 1.
