CorelDRAW vs Adobe Photoshop: Which is a better fit?

Joshua W.: ... Josh, and I'm the owner of Josh Auto Repair. We use CorelDRAW for a lot of our vinyl wraps, and the score I'm going to give it today is a four. I used Photoshop beforehand, and the system requirements for my PC was too much at the time, and this was a few years ago, so that's why I ended up going with CorelDRAW. I chose CorelDRAW because the product is one of the necessities that we're going to need for our vinyl wraps, and I chose CorelDRAW mainly because of its user abilities to be able... It's very user-friendly. Getting started with CorelDRAW is as easy as just installing it, putting your basic information in, and your off and running. I had no issues with it. Once it wasn't installed, I was able to go into the software and pretty much start my editing and doing what I had to do right there. It's self-explanatory and very user-friendly. My advice for CorelDRAW is, if you're going to do any bigger file management, is to try to shrink them files into smaller files because CorelDRAW, to me, has a bigger issue with bigger files and making the system crash. I've realized, whenever I've used smaller files, I've had no issues.

Onome D.: My name is Onome. I am an artist and facilitator and a solopreneur, and I would give Adobe Photoshop a four. Prior to Adobe Photoshop, I was using this web-based graphic design tool. I think it was called GIMP. So it's pretty old school, not user-friendly at all. So as soon as I had the opportunity to start using Adobe Photoshop, I jumped right into it. I chose Adobe Photoshop because it was the most straightforward, comprehensive graphic design program that I knew about at the time that really did everything that I needed it to do and so much more. It was actually a very overwhelming software. I only needed maybe 10% of the capacity of what it could do, but that 10% was everything I needed that I couldn't find in other... I'll find a little bit here in this one program, a little bit this other. Adobe Photoshop was the one software I found that had all the different capacities and make collages and build posters and flyers, like those kinds of things. So I will say that Adobe Photoshop has a very simple learning curve as far as figuring out the basics relatively quickly, how to put an image together and manipulate the colors and the texture. But it has this steep learning curve when it comes to really diving into building a polished visual presence. So that was where I would encounter more frustration. But when it came to being able to jump right in and get immediate projects done fairly quickly, that was where my experience with Adobe Photoshop really shined. So the biggest advice I would give for somebody looking to bring Adobe Photoshop into your business is ask yourself how frequently and consistently do you need access to dependable comprehensive graphic design. Because if you use graphic design every day or multiple times a week, then it may be worth it for you to go with Adobe Photoshop in its current incarnation as a subscription model. Back when I used Adobe Photoshop, it was freestanding software, and I wasn't using it consistently and frequently enough for me to justify signing up for a subscription model. But if you're someone who you have an inspired idea 3 in the morning, you want to be able to access Adobe Photoshop to implement it right then and there, and you know that that will come up for you often, or if you have team members who want to continually and consistently tweak their designs, then it'd be worth it for you to get the subscription.