Adobe Illustrator vs Adobe Photoshop: Which is a better fit?

Isabel S.: Hi, I'm Isabel. I work as a portrait artist. I am giving a number five out of five review for Adobe Illustrator. For more reviews like, this click below. Before Illustrator, I was using Paint and it was awful. I am not the best at drawing and I needed help with it. I just felt like, "Oh, my gosh, I'm going to have to spend hours and hours and hours getting better at drawing just to get better at Paint." Then, I discovered Illustrator and all of its quirks and features and greatness. I was like, "Oh, my gosh. I am going to stick with this." With all the problems that I was having with Paint and then the quick things that I needed to make, when I discovered that Adobe Illustrator goes and helps you to create those graphics to look nice, I was like, "Oh, my gosh, this is just a total game changer. It makes my life so much easier." I was just like, "I'm using this for the rest of my life, because this is easy." For me, it was really easy to get started with Adobe Illustrator. I'm really familiar with Photoshop. Illustrator works really similar to Photoshop. It just has a little bit of different tools to help you more purposely with drawing. Photoshop, you end up painting and you play with different levels and different colorations that are in there. You can do those same type of things with Illustrator, it's just Illustrator has really been made to help you with drawing that thing out and getting it to look good, and especially if you're a graphic designer or something like that, it's much better for that than Photoshop is. Yeah, for me, it was easy. There was a small learning curve, but because I already knew Photoshop, it really wasn't too bad. If you're considering Adobe Illustrator and you're doing things like graphic design, a lot of things that are simple to print or that's going to be on the internet, Illustrator is definitely the way to go. It seems to be the industry standard. It's simple to use, especially if you've been used to the Adobe Suite. When you open it up, and if you've been playing with any of the other Adobe programs that are there, it's going to feel familiar. Yes, I would definitely suggest going ahead and getting it over other methods if you're not the greatest illustrator on the planet, because it will definitely help you with all of those things, give you more options than you ever even knew were possible.

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.