Total Newbie Here. Looking For Directions

Hi everyone,
I'm completely new to everything except photoshop which I'm still learning. I want to create a printable fitness journal, but I'm unsure which program I would use. I just wanto use my company logo, add lines for journal entries and a few pages that would have a food and exercise tracker...sort of like a calendar. Can someone please direct me to the right program? I was thinking it would be Indesign, but a few Google searches suggested Illustrator.
Thanks in advance.

If it's one page only, either one of Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign would do just fine. For anything more than a single page and containing a mix of images and text, one typically would use InDesign.
Prettymomlovespink wrote:
I was thinking it would be Indesign, but a few Google searches suggested Illustrator.
That suggestions were probably made by Illustrator users.

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Hello all, this is is a brief and likely frustratingly generic message.
It has been well over a decade since I have worked with Adobe products (I last built a web page with PS 5 and Macromedia Dreamweaver).
All of the new tools available to us are astounding but, for someone partially familiar with the tools but unfamiliar with the new workflows, the Creative Cloud can be daunting: there is simply so much.
I have two projects I would like to work on, the first is a blog that will incorporate videos of recorded shows, and host essays and writing on creative criticism, the second is a web page for a tutoring and academic writing service.
What I am looking for isn't a hand to hold while I do all of this, but a bit more specific a vector for where to begin my learning. I am used to the old method of designing, slicing, and fighting with pixels and tables, and having to manually set styles on static portions of web pages; CSS is a new ball game for me, as it was only in its infancy when I was doing this years ago.
Should I be using Dreamweaver, or Edge Reflow these days, if I am more of a designer/writer than an artist? What about Muse; though I find that Muse doesn't render graphics very well and content becomes blurry (like blurred 1px lines rather than crisp images like in PS)? I'd like to be able to repackage my blog in a mobile app one day, likewise for the tutoring service, but that one much farther down the road.
So, I guess, I've put on my blindfold, and am ready to pin the tail on the donkey, but I need someone to give me a spin first. I know there isn't much detail in this post, but I don't want to start rambling about things that don't really matter yet; but I do have the projects outlined and ready for green lights, so I can fill in more details as required.
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http://maven.apache.org/
Another very good place where to find information:
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http://www.mvnrepository.com/search.html
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Trial versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Premiere Elements are downloaded using the Adobe Download Assistant — a small application that is meant to improve download reliability and avoid issues that commonly occur during large downloads, such as frequent disconnects.
What do we mean by "large downloads"? Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop Elements, for example, are each over 1.1 GB. The approximate download times for files this size are:
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• On a DSL connection (1.5 mbps): 1 hrs. 39 minutes.
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Update 5/5/13: Please utilize the Photoshop Elements page at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements&loc=us to set the trial cookie to allow the links offered at http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs6-direct-download-links.html to function successfully.
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Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/IDSN/8/win32/InDesign_8_LS16.exe?" on this server.
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For the record, it appears that Apple does have all of the ProApp updates available on their download servers for Final Cut Studio 2.
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Edited by: Udo on 17.11.2011 20:36

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Only you know what you bought when you subscribed... did you subscribe to a single program plan for Lightroom, or the special Photography plan?
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Apple won't read your post here since this is a user to user forum. Provide feedback:
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