Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is one of the best-known image editing software, and is pretty much a global brand. So much so, that it became a verb – it is very common to hear “I can photoshop it” …  

Even for those who never worked with images or photos on their computers or tablets, there is a good chance that they may have heard of Photoshop.  

Adobe Photoshop is available for both Windows and Mac, and it is a very powerful application that's used by many professional photographers, designers and design studios. Photoshop can be used for almost any kind of image editing and manipulating, such as touching up photos, creating high-quality graphics, removing unwanted elements from images, preparing images for high quality print and much, much more.

Photo was created many years ago, and with the dedicated developers of Adobe, more and more features had been added to it – making it quite a daunting software for novices. Though it is very advanced and sophisticated in its capabilities, once you understand and familiarise yourself with the interface, it is not that hard to use at all.  

IT used to be rather expensive for non-professional users, but prices and payment plans made it more affordable.  

Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a program created for both artists and graphic designers to create graphics in the format known as vector graphics. The images created as vector graphic images are targeted as company logos, Brochures, leaflets and promotional uses both in print and digital form.  It is mainly used to create illustrations, logos, cartoons, charts and more. The program takes some time to comprehend and get used to, but the professional results are second to none.

The final product of Illustrator because its nature as a vector image, can scale up or down without real limits, and still look very sharp – without any pixilation.

For the novice, it is very important to understand that Adobe Illustrator is designed to enable both the new comers or the professional designer regardless of any prior knowledge of drawing or painting. And the ability to trace a photograph and turn it into a vector image is very useful and powerful indeed.