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Adobe PhotoShop

Score9.1 out of 10

3,135 Reviews and Ratings

What is Adobe PhotoShop?

Adobe Photoshop is the best known graphics product on the market.

Categories & Use Cases

Photoshop the leader in design softwares.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Photoshop is used by graphic designers, motion designers, space designers, and 3D artists in my organisation. It is used across the length and breadth of designers, from design directors to junior designers, to production teams. As we require software to edit and retouch imagery, Photoshop does the best job compared to the other products available. And with AI and Adobe suite integration, it is irreplaceable in any design organisation.

Pros

  • Image editing of any sorts.
  • Digital illustration.
  • Expanding image using generative expand tool.

Cons

  • The effect applying time could be faster.
  • There could be a smarter way to make mockups using smart objects, maybe by directly selecting an area, and generative AI can automate a few steps.
  • If Photoshop can suggest the right stock imagery in case the generative AI doesn't get the right answer.

Return on Investment

  • I think Photoshop does help make a lot of things faster, as one can quickly try things in Photoshop before actually executing a layout.
  • It has actively shared tutorials on the new features that it has been adding with each update.
  • Apart from graphic design, it helps other design departments like motion, 3D, and space design too.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign, Figma and Canva

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Figma, Adobe InDesign, Miro, Microsoft Teams

Good if you need detail, not if you need speed

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Some design projects are part of my job as a content specialist. Most of them fast paced needing visuals quick, for example a social media post, a quick flyer or an online brand page.

Pros

  • Giving options, there’s a lot you can do with PhotoShop
  • Having an extensive online resource if you need help finding certain features and how to use them.
  • Being an industry standard, meaning you can exchange information and files easily with different brands/companies.

Cons

  • Convoluted interface, it could be sorted a bit more
  • Very big work files, photoshop only works properly on a very strong laptop or PC
  • Takes up a lot of RAM

Return on Investment

  • Sadly PhotoShop does crash my laptop from time to time
  • PhotoShop is very slow on my devices, slowing down the workflow and not being my preferred tools.
  • By slowing down the workflow and our company not being optimized for design PhotoShop is sadly not the right solution for us

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Figma, Canva, Adobe Illustrator CC and Adobe InDesign

Other Software Used

Figma, Canva, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator CC

Adobe PhotoShop Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using Adobe PhotoShop since 2018. its an amazing platform for photo edititing and manipulation of picture. its a very helpful tool in my business. i just started my digital marketing agency few months ago and its help me alot like i dont know ho to make ads but i try to make ads on Adobe PhotoShop from scratch and know i have good knowledge about Adobe PhotoShop

Pros

  • image retouch
  • brush tool
  • quick selection tool

Cons

  • pc and laptop stability test

Return on Investment

  • Adobe PhotoShop has had a positive impact on my business by improving the quality of visuals, which attracts more clients and boosts brand credibility. The ability to create professional designs in-house saves costs on outsourcing. However, the subscription cost can be high for smaller businesses. Overall, the ROI has been worth it.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Canva and Figma

Other Software Used

Canva, Figma

A tool designed for making your creativity come to Life!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Previously in our orgranization, the documentation designing was being done on obsolete softwares.

Since I've been given the opportunity to lead our organization's Digital content department, I use Adobe PhotoShop on a daily basis for all of our documentation design layouts. This tool has significantly improved the look and feel of our documentation and reduced the ETA for my deliverables and the ease of access it now offers with its cloud based solutions for hosting projects and sharing it with the team.

Additionally, the New AI integration of Adobe Firefly in Adobe PhotoShop is a complete game changer.

Pros

  • AI image editing
  • Lasso Tool
  • Gradient tool
  • Gaussian Blur filter
  • Image Masking
  • Slice images for Webpages
  • Image processing

Cons

  • The newly introduced AI tool (Firefly) needs to be further improved as it deviates from the prompts with brief description.
  • Adobe needs to step up their game with the scratch disk, as it becomes annoying at times when you everything you have on your disk is valuable and you are unable to use Adobe PhotoShop because of the scratch disk is full.
  • The project tabs could be enhanced to identify the tab in use with a color, to avoid user errors.

Return on Investment

  • Customer retention
  • Customer Knowledge base redesign
  • Documentation Redesign
  • Product look and feel

Usability

Other Software Used

Document360, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate

Photoshop is an Incredibly Affordable and Well-Rounded Photo-Editing and Manipulation Software

Pros

  • Quick edits
  • Multi-layered edits with multiple assets
  • Resizing assets for web
  • Composite images

Cons

  • Image compression
  • Magnetic Lasso
  • Vector editing

Most Important Features

  • Layers
  • Compression
  • Adjustment Layers

Return on Investment

  • Our website runs much more quickly thanks to image compression
  • My job is more streamlined having this tool available while producing videos
  • Photo adjustments and manipulation is incredibly easy and workload is reduced
  • Very affordable as part of the Creative Cloud bundle

Alternatives Considered

GIMP and Pixlr

Other Software Used

GIMP, Pixlr