What kind Of programs do magazine editors use?

Question

I have a project and we need to create a magazine. We want it to look really professionnal, so i was wondering what kind of programs do magazine editors and all that use to make their front page, ads, articles all that. I'm so lost like do they use seperate programs and what do they put it together with? I just need the name of the KIND(s) of program at least i can find some with that or even if someone knows an actual name of a program that can do that we don't mind paying. Please help if you can.

Answer 1

most covers are done in Adobe Photoshop. this is a very robust digital imaging software. you can do your paragraphs here, but it wasn't meant for that.

inside pages are done in desktop publishing software like Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Quark Express, Pagemaker. these have better text editing tools for copy/text heavy pages (when you've got columns and columns of articles. the words would also be crisper (as opposed to blurred).