PS Vs AI

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator both are very popular Applications. Everyone has their own opinion between these two Artistic Designer software’s. Usage between people is that Illustrator is mainly used by designers and Photoshop is mainly used by artists. Sometimes it’s best to use Illustrator and Photoshop together. One is definitely not better than the other, they are just different. Understanding the basic differences between Photoshop and Illustrator will help you make the decision about which software is best for your requirement. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator both are very popular Applications.

Photoshop creates bitmap or raster graphics. These graphics may look jagged, since raster images are made of individual color squares known as pixels. Everything in Photoshop is just a series of pixels. So if you are scaling something up or down, it could lose its quality very quickly. Photoshop is a popular choice for web graphics, photo editing and designs since those projects will stay at its fixed size. Illustrator is a vector based software. Illustrator is often used to create logo graphic or anything that needs to be printed or displayed in different sizes. Let’s say you created a logo that you want to print and display it in a huge hoarding board, you can scale it however you want without losing its quality. If you zoom in even 1000% everything will be sharp and clear in illustrator whereas if you zoom in about more then 300-500% it can get very blurry and messy.

1. Illustrator is an object based editing tool. The objects are made of path. In illustrator you have stacks of objects with a bunch of attributes attached to it. These objects may be a circle, square, rectangle, lines or custom shapes. Let’s say you draw a circle. It is a path based object. You can fill it or attach a stoke to that object. You can attach any number of effects to that object. You can scale it up, you can scale it down however and you won’t lose any detail of the object. Whereas in Photoshop you are always selecting chunks of pixels. And even in Photoshop when it comes to vector graphic creation, you are actually creating a path which is filling itself with a bunch of pixels. It still isn’t true vector artwork. Even with Photoshop’s vector capabilities you are not getting the same true vector object editing effect like illustrator. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator both are very popular Applications

Illustrator| allows you to create multiple artboards or canvas. In Photoshop you can use only a single canvas. If you want to create multiple canvases then you have to create a new document.

3.Selection is a little bit different between these two. In illustrator the object itself is the selection whereas in Photoshop the selection is an area.

4.Layers in illustrator can have multiple objects. You can create as many graphics as a multiple objects in a single layer. In Photoshop the layers will contain a single object.Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator both are very popular Applications

Conclusion: If your project consists of logo or texts then definitely go for illustrator since it a vector based application. And if you are working with photographs, then definitely it’s a clear call for Photoshop. To retouch a photo you are pushing pixels. You are working with adjustment layers, color channels, healing, cloning, applying filter effects etc. Also for digital painting, Photoshop is the one. You have the brush tool to mix up pixels and blend it while painting on a canvas. You are not constrained by the hard edge of path based vector objects like Illustrator.

By the end of the day, it’s just a matter of personal preference. It’s up to you to decide which one works better for you.

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