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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe PhotoShop

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Photoshop is the best known graphics product on the market.

    $20

    per month

    Adobe Premiere Pro

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe offers their video editing platform Adobe Premiere Pro, supporting video and audio editing as well as VR presentations, available as part of the company's Creative Cloud suite or as a standalone application.

    $22.99

    per month

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    Adobe PhotoShopAdobe Premiere Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Single App
    $20.00
    per month
    Premiere Pro Single App
    $22.99
    per month
    Adobe Creative Cloud - All Apps
    $59.99
    per month
    Adobe Creative Cloud - Students and Teachers
    $59.99
    per month
    Adobe Creative Cloud - Business
    $89.99
    per month per seat
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    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe PhotoShopAdobe Premiere Pro
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts available for student and teacher plan.
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    Adobe PhotoShopAdobe Premiere Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Canva is easier to use, but Photoshop is meant for professionals, so it can do so much more if you know how to use it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Each adobe tool really is created to stand alone for different purposes. I don't think I can compare Adobe PhotoShop with other tools simply because they do different things. As far as Canva goes, I do enjoy using Canva, but there are at times more complicated things I need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    A lot of the newer, younger staff, have worked extensively in Express and/or Canva. Some things in those platforms, like one-button background removal, have made it very easy for them to quickly do mock ups. But if they have to do something a bit more complex, Adobe PhotoShop …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    I used all of these for different reasons. For a quick job that is a duplicate of previous efforts, Canva can get the job done. For actual illustration, Clip Studio Paint is a better choice for drawing. Adobe PhotoShop is the all-arounder, though, that can accomplish any of the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    I'd say there are different use cases for each tool. PhotoShop is a beast at image editing, I haven't used anything else for this purpose. But with the other tools, they serve different purpose - Canva is good for templated stuff, illustrator is good for anything …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    every software work is different ... indesign is good for making multiple pages like magazine booklet and illustrator is good in picking colors and directly fill them in object just clicking ... Adobe Photoshop can do everything but every software has its own speciality.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Adobe Photoshop is really best if we compare this software with other graphic designing software. There are several reasons, but the most important reason is the difference in tools and features because Adobe Photoshop offers a number of incredibly professional tools that allow …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    I really haven't evaluated another tool because Photoshop has always been the standard in the industry, and the program you learn how to use when you are into this. Before I learn how to use Photoshop I used to edit into Canvas.com which is a really easy software to use, but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Canva is a graphic editing program, but on a basic level. Adobe Photoshop provides a better alternative than Canva for clients who require complex graphic design because of the software's reach and the tools provided available for customizing the graphic design. Even the user …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Adobe has more quality, more options and has for sure a better outcome than almost all the other products we have used to create graphics. You can see the difference between Adobe and GIMP in a heartbeat. Not saying the other ones are bad, but it is a quality difference based …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Adobe Photoshop is in a nutshell just a more robust program. It really opened up options that the other programs we used or were looking to use could. Upgrading from Canva to Adobe Photoshop has enhanced our final products in every aspect, from the idea phase to the final …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Adobe Illustrator is excellent for vector designs and illustrations and Adobe InDesign is excellent for layout work of printed materials like manuals. Adobe Photoshop is the go-to program for photo editing and the trio of programs work well together to cover most needs of a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Canva and Adobe Spark are two programs that are able to accomplish similar tasks as [Adobe] Photoshop. However, Canva and Spark are extremely simplistic when compared to Photoshop. These two apps are perfect for beginners who want to create simple graphics and want help with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    All perform different tasks and integrate with Photoshop. Use them all in one way or another with Photoshop.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Before using Photoshop, I was a long-time GIMP user. As much as people may try to tell you otherwise, for modern digital media creation, there really is no comparison. The open-source community behind GIMP simply cannot keep up with the rapid development of new and powerful …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    To be honest, Adobe PhotoShop is the only tool of its kind that I have used, other than many, many years ago when I used Microsoft Paint. Compared to Paint, Adobe PhotoShop blows it out of the water in nearly every aspect. Adobe PhotoShop's depth and power are unequaled in the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Adobe Photoshop is faster, more expansive, and has one of the best communities online. You can find any tutorial online for anything you want to do with it. But the biggest reason I prefer Photoshop over GIMP is that I use macOS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    I started using this software 15 years ago. I've tried others, but nobody makes me work as well as Adobe does. By now I have my consolidated workflow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    We heard that GIMP was another powerful and popular image manipulation and graphic design software, and more importantly, it was provided free for everyone and for all platforms, but one thing that it didn't come with and the reason we chose Photoshop was the number of users …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    I've worked with GIMP and Pixlr before. Although those are fairly good tools, nothing compares to Photoshop. Other tools only have 10% of the features of what Photoshop can provide.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    CorelDRAW been around for many years but to date, Photoshop is still the king of any of graphic editing tools currently on the market.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Photoshop and Premiere function very differently, but I do love the color editing capabilities of Photoshop vs. Premiere. Photoshop gives me the ability to make images look exactly how I want them to look, whereas Premiere tends to be more difficult with that.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    It has been years since I have looked at an alternative. The alternatives that I looked up in the past no longer exist and I do not remember their name. Although I listed five years of experience, I did not include when I used Photoshop in college back with Photoshop 2.0, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Corel is nowhere close to the power of Photoshop and I have found that Corel will also not let you convert to certain formats correctly without some loss in quality. The color tools are not as robust and the feature set is lacking. I feel that Photoshop overall has a better …
    Incentivized
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    I have also used Adobe Premiere Rush (a less capable but more streamlined and easier to use version of Adobe Premiere Pro) and Canva to produce video content. Ultimately I will choose to use Adobe Premiere Pro every time. I always end up wanting to do something in Rush that I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Final Cut Pro is equivalent to Premiere in terms of capability, but our organization is completely Windows based, as are most corporate office environments, and PowerDirector offered an adequate solution but lacked the full suite of tools that we were looking for.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Adobe Premiere Pro integrates relatively well with the rest of the Creative Cloud suite. The challenges come down to individual workflows. Each product has its own separate hotkeys and workflows that may make sense individually, but collectively they're a hassle to keep …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Compared to other editing software, it's a cleaner layout, faster render, and much more easy to learn some of the more complex features.
    Similar platforms take too long to set up and give commands in one step as opposed to 3 or 4 steps in some software, which saves time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    We actually took time in 2020 to test out Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve to see if they would be better suited for our department but ended up sticking with Premiere. Each has [its] strong suits, but the non-linear editing style of Resolve was too complicated to grasp when …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Adobe Premiere Pro is so much better than iMovie, but iMove is great for people who are just starting out and want a slimmed-down version of Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro does have a learning curve and is not as easy to pick up and learn in comparison to iMovie.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    We used Final Cut for a while before switching to Premiere. Overall we found Premiere to be a better and more professional video editor with a number of great and easy to use features. Couple that with the fact that it's a part of the Creative Suite and compatible with all the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Probably better for the color part, and free, but very very unintuitive and slower workflow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    The Photos application that is built into Microsoft Windows has a rudimentary video editor in it. While this might be good for making slideshows to show at a class reunion or family get together, it is hugely lacking if you are trying to create professional projects that will …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Filmora is an excellent program. It has much smaller monthly fees than Adobe Premiere, but we still believe that the Adobe program offers better results in the design area. We also like to get carried away by the tranquility offered by using a program that is backed by a good …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    I've not used the Corel contemporary in quite a while but when I used Pinnacle in previous years there really wasn't a comparison. I'm sure for a budget-minded user it would get the job done but I think plenty of free software would be just as good. If you're going to pay for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    A similar program is Adobe After Effects. It has some of the same functions, but for basic or in-depth editing of a video, Premiere Pro should be your first choice.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Whereas Final Cut Pro used to be the gold standard for editing, Premiere Pro has quickly become the standard in the industry. It is much more flexible and more likely to be used by other editing studios, should you have to collaborate. Each edition of Premiere builds on the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Adobe Premiere Pro is by far the best video software of the selected products. It does not have the best audio editing capabilities nor video graphic design capabilities but good enough ones where it can help you out in a pinch if your primary goal is to edit the video. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Product not included: Avid Media Composer. I've used Premiere, FCPX, and Avid (not bothering to include iMovie as it is not necessarily considered a "professional" product), but have most experience with Premiere. There's a laughable debate between Premiere and FCPX (Avid still …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Premiere Pro excels in organization, productivity, and design compared to Sony Vegas, which was the software I previously used to create video content. I am now able to render videos faster, edit, and preview unfinished projects quickly and efficiently. I had little to no …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Premiere, to me, feels more modern and flexible than Avid, and more powerful than Final Cut. I find it to be the best of both worlds. I've spent years using Final Cut 7, X, and Avid Media Composer and Premiere is by far my favorite tool. While it often feels like Final Cut gets …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Adobe products, in general, are our first choice when it comes to creative solutions so Premiere Pro was really a no-brainer. For a very short time, I did use Final Cut Pro X, but found that it lacked many of the features (transitions and audio editing effects) that Premiere …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Camtasia is great for screen-recording and beginner video editing. It is a powerful tool that I recommend to several colleagues. However, it does not have the same robust functionality as Premiere Pro for special effects, sound quality, and color correction.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Camtasia is much better for desktop/lecture capture -- it doesn't really have the horsepower to do handle large video clips and the .camproj file format (which is basically xml) doesn't integrate well with any other programs. There are also inconsistent features between the MAC …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    Again, this comes down to integrations with other Adobe products. Premiere Pro alone isn't enough to produce a professional video. You need other solutions for effects, audio editing, and color correction. Adobe has a full suite of solutions to assist in the professional …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    We went with Adobe Premiere Pro because it was at a great cost point when compared to Avid. Final Cut Pro X was more of a prosumer piece of software than professional so that was quickly taken out of the mix. Premiere was just more suited for a professional, post-production …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    It is the most professional software on the market, used by most professionals, interlinked with other Adobe programs, which greatly facilitates the workflow. It has excellent support via web. Very easy to find tutorials.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Premiere Pro
    I used Final Cut Pro X many years ago. It wasn't as user friendly from what I can remember. Before Adobe Premiere Pro I was using iMovie and Quicktime Pro to edit my videos. Although they were sufficient for what I needed, Adobe Premiere Pro allows for more creativity with the …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Adobe PhotoShopAdobe Premiere Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (211 ratings)
    9.1
    (86 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (36 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (54 ratings)
    3.2
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
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    Product Scalability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe PhotoShopAdobe Premiere Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Photoshop is a useful tool for everything from creating social media graphics to editing and sizing photos. There is a bit of a learning curve, so you need to have a bit of experience to master it and use it for a variety of tasks. You also need to have a good sense of file organization so you can find files quickly without losing track of them.
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    Adobe
    I have actually recommended Adobe Premiere Pro to many people looking to get into the editing field. It is perfect for any type of video creation. It would not be very useful for someone who isn't serious about video editing and wants to just use something to cut out the beginning or ends of clips. It's too advanced for that and [maybe] confusing for someone not educated in the field.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • The fact is that you may quickly pick things up on your own by spending time without using any other resources.
    • It is the program that brings the phrase "to make PhotoShop" to almost all languages. It's not just a photo editing program.
    • Practical and beautiful results are filtered by filtering the desired work without drowning in details.
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    Adobe
    • Premiere is able to import video in almost any format and has a number of excellent export formats and styles.
    • Premiere has a great interface that once learned feels very intuitive.
    • Premiere aligns easily with the other suite of Adobe software allowing for easy integration of graphics and audio.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • 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.
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    Adobe
    • Export times: I do a massive amount of exports with intensive graphics. They often need to be done quickly. If export times could be reduced by 90%, my life would improve drastically.
    • Importing errors: Certain video formats are not compatible, such as specific types of MP4s and MKV files. Greater flexibility would be wonderful.
    • End the subscription model. I'd gladly pay one flat fee once and be done with it.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We get a lot of use out of this software. It's vital for work with production in our industry and has a lot of cross-functionality - creating social media images, retouching photos, editing photos, creating gradients, and more. It's pretty fuss-free in that we haven't had to reach out to support and the program hasn't crashed on us. We are trained on the software (so again, this isn't for beginners), but for detail-oriented designers and creatives like ourselves - it's a no-brainer.
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    Adobe
    There is not better program for your needs than Adobe Premiere Pro. It doesn't matter if it can be hard to learn because this product is the top of the line and you will not find a better video editing program. This is what the professionals use. It is worth the learning curve.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Adobe PhotoShop is a professional-grade tool that requires months/years to get a grasp of how to use it well. Even then, after over a decade of using Adobe PhotoShop both casually and professionally, I feel like I'm still unfamiliar with a large percentage of the available tools. Without a dedicated training program, it can be extremely overwhelming and/or you may not get good use out of it. That being said, once you do get comfortable with it, the layout and workspace are excellent with myriad shortcuts that speed up your workflow exponentially. Put in the time to learn it, and you'll love it.
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    Adobe
    Premiere Pro is a very powerful tool, but it's not intuitive - it's virtually impossible to use without some kind of training or instruction. That being said, once you've learned how to use the product so that you can take advantage of its various video editing and creation options, it's an incredible program in terms of features and tools.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Adobe Photoshop is very reliable, but is never 100%. There have been times when Adobe Photoshop has had trouble opening, but nothing a little computer restart couldn't fix. I use Adobe Photoshop on a Mac for both work and at home on a daily basis, and I would be lost without it.
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Adobe
    Speed can be an issue when you are dealing with large files for large format printing or billboards. When working on web images, speed is not an issue.
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    While I never contacted Adobe directly, there is so much content out there in the form of YouTube videos, Lynda/LinkedIn learning that almost any issue, including bugs, can be worked around (and this method is generally faster as there's no turnaround time involved).
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    Adobe
    It is a professional team that provides customer service at any time. I think that the team does not rest until they find a solution to your problem. I think this makes this company great because when a company offers a good service, and they treat you well, the customer always returns satisfied.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    So, I received the training at the HQ and it was train the trainer training. A good time, I spent a week at their campus
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    Adobe
    Utilizing one of the many books available on Adobe Premiere Pro, each video editor can learn at their own pace.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    I took a course so it really helped. I didn’t take the course until much later after beginning to use it, so I wish work would have sent me right off the bat. It would have alleviated a lot of frustratinon
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    Adobe
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    [Adobe] Photoshop offers the best photo editing as well as content creation. The layer-by-layer approach of [Adobe] Photoshop helps to work between two apps or even two PCs of entirely different Creative Cloud apps seamlessly. The stability and the speed of the tools in photoshop make it even better to make a canvas of creativity.
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    Adobe
    DaVinci Resolve is a powerful editing and color-grading application, and the base version is free. However, I've found that with the Lumetri Color panel in Premiere, I really have no need for Resolve as it meets all of my needs. Additionally, I've found Resolve to be lacking in support for the broad range of file types that Premiere handles gracefully.
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    It seems expensive compared to the free/cheap programs now available
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Adobe PhotoShop in general is a great time saver.
    • It does take a long time for the program to start up, however
    • The most difficult task is onboarding new employees into Adobe PhotoShop who don't have experience with it. It's an investment for their future so we see value in it.
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    Adobe
    • Speed of workflow has increased- specially when coupled with keyboard shortcuts
    • Jobs have had a faster turnover rate which makes clients happy.
    • I have two Adobe accounts, one for work and one for personal use. Both of these accounts are paying for themselves through the work I can provide with the use of Premiere.
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