3. Outfitting your Toolbox

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Now that we’ve defined album production’s most pressing challenges and laid out some winning strategies for coping with them, it’s time to stock your digital toolbox with all the best stuff so you can do great work—fast.

There are a lot of tools on the market, but this collection was handpicked for very specific reasons, including the unique way they all work together. If you truly want the best of the best, this is it.

Adobe InDesign

I like to think of InDesign as Photoshop’s BFF. Though they are indeed two separate and very different programs, they go together like PB&J—making all kinds of amazing things possible. ...

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