Restaurant menu

[GUJUm0deL]

Anyone of a tutorial out there for a 'restaurant menu' design?

I did a google search and came up with one -but that was more a restaurant menu navaigation, and all others were regular menu navigations.

Thanks.

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Just Imagine.

http://www.imajinarts.com

 

[jimoblak]

1) Menus are designed in page layout apps, not Photoshop.

2) Menus are very basic design projects. You should not be seeking a tutorial on menu design. You should be taking a basic design course.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

I'm not talking about a navigation menu. I am talking about a restaurant menu. Like when you go to Olive Garden or Friendly's and you look through a menu to decide what food you want to order.

BTW, navigation menu'scan and usually are designed in photoshop.

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http://www.imajinarts.com

 

[tripodmann]

this blog may have info on it, I know I had a layout issue and these guys helped me out

Hope this helps

http://www.creativeupstart.com/photoshopblog.html

Tripod

 

[audiopro]

Graphic design for printing is a totally seperate operation to web graphic design. A web page cannot be viewed all at once whereas a page of a restaurant menu is viewed as a whole.

Create a document at the menu size and have a go at designing something. Set it to a high resolution to keep good print quality and see where your imagination takes you. Think about how you use a menu and what information should be where. that will give you a basic layout. Design the text first as that is the most important then add the fancy stuff after. Print a test copy and try it out on some people:-

Does it suggest the culture and atmosphere of the restaurant?
Can they read it easily?
(Customers want the information so choose claer to read fonts)
Can they find what they want

If you can do that then you are on to a winner and could be a designer.
Just have a go at doing it your way.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[jimoblak]

I am talking about a restaurant menu. Like when you go to Olive Garden or Friendly's and you look through a menu to decide what food you want to order.

Good. So was I. This is called print design.

You need a printed page layout application, not just Photoshop. This would be known by anyone that has taken a basic design course.

Try InDesign, QuarkXPress, Scribus, etc.

 

[jmgalvin]

GUJUm0deL:

It might be a good idea to actually listen to JimOblak. There's a reason that his name is over on the right side of this forum's main page - listed as an MVP.

AS he said, restaurant menus are laid out in page layout apps, NOT raster precessing apps. That is why Adobe has Indesign and Quark has XPress.

If the menu is 4 or 6 or 8 pages, how are you going to make the multi page photoshop doc? Are you going to do the thing at 2400 dpi so your teststays crisp? You"ll end up with the biggest photoshop file in the history of mankind.

Basically you wnat to use a hammer for a job that calls for a screwdriver.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[apepp]

...to add to everyones comments here, you can use vector and text in photoshop and preserve vector and text when saving from photoshop to PDF or eps...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...for flexibilty it is better to use a page layout application in the long run in any case...

Andrew

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Ok, I think when I say restaurant menu people automaticaly assume I want the deign restaurant menu as print media. I don't. I wanted the restaurant menu design as a web site layout. The idea was to have the web site design as a restaurant menu.

In any case, it's OK. I was able to design it on my own.

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http://www.imajinarts.com

 

[zavsays]

There are many menus displayed on EBAY under "vintage restaurant menu

 

[kentucky]

I would suggest designing the background in photoshop.

and possibly typing the text in quark or indesign.

you might try adobe.com downloads click on exhange and search there for ideas.

 

[kentucky]

sorry i did not see your last post that i designed for web.
i was confused.