Proboscis wrote: ↑19 Sep 2021
Really brilliant designs. I like elements of both iterations.
Do you create these in InDesign or similar software ? I have a full Adobe CC subscription, but have never put the time into learning ID, so each time I've jumped in to knock some graphics up, I get frustrated and revert back to Photoshop, which I feel is very limited in creating custom graphics (since, well, that's not really what PS is intended to do)
Hi Proboscis! Thank you for your kind words, much appreciated!
These UIs are created with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I begin wihthin Illustrator, pasting a screenshot of the Reason screen to have a background showing the exact location of the knobs. Then I design the vector graphics assets I need. After that I copypaste into Photoshop the results (not all together, but in various steps: background, knob meters, labels, estra stuff) so i can blend them in Photoshop with the (i.e.) metal texture in the bottom layer, playing with transparencies and simulating some weathering of longtime use around the knobs and the buttons so it looks more "real".
You can do vector graphics with InDesign, but its core business is layout and management and arrangement of large amount of text and images (books, manuals, ebooks, comics, you name it), so I would strongly suggest you to try using Illustrator instead which is the best vector gfx software around (to me at least - -InkScape is a cool free alternative, though).
I like to imagine Photshop as an audio editor/sampler, Illustrator as a midi based synth and InDesign as a sequencer. Each one has its use!