Photoshop is broad in its functionality that it overlaps with layout and illustration programs like Illustrator (not as strong as Illustrator in either area) and with UX/UI design programs like Sketch and Adobe XD. (both of which are superior for web/interface design). Since …
Adobe Photoshop is superior in terms of its capabilities in terms of photo editing and image retouching. It is more powerful for building high level graphic designs that incorporate things like gradients, lighting, textures and so on. Where Sketch has an advantage over …
Adobe Photoshop is a professional software for design [and] it is an essential software for designer and professional artist. The best feature among this software are working with each layer separately, combine or merge layers, we can group layers, mask layer, and more with …
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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 …
Photoshop is my go-to tool and the only one I use. So for that reason, I am not able to provide examples of any other software that I used which could be similar in function to Photoshop. Other software I use is completely different than Photoshop.
I've tried many Photoshop alternatives over the years and generally, nothing stacks up. I sometimes use Canva when I need something created and don't have access to Photoshop. It doesn't do the same kind of heavy lifting, but it works in a pinch. I think that's the real …
Sketch is quite different from Adobe Photoshop. It's not built for photo editing, which is a good thing. It has just-enough in that area to get you by. Sketch is much more suited for creating websites as a design professional. The app is very fast, streamlined, and easy to use. …
I would say that it's different enough from the others that it has its place right alongside them. Nothing beats Sketch in terms of its ability to quickly wireframe.
I think Sketch it better than Illustrator in a lot of respects. I feel like Sketch allows for more accuracy and precision. I do think it lacks in its collaboration. Unlike Figma it doesn't allow live collaboration.
We went from designing websites in Photoshop to designing in Sketch, and it is certainly much quicker and easier to design in Sketch, and you're more easily able to make sure that our designs are exact in Sketch, as far as spacing exact pixels. I have never used AdobeXD and …
Sketch is great for creating digital assets quickly and easily. It is simple to figure out and easy to use. It has a very clean user interface and isn't a resource hog like Adobe products tend to be. Its export feature is fantastic, generating multiple asset sizes/resolutions …
Sketch works perfectly well with Adobe Illustrator, you can seamlessly copy and paste vector artworks and open PDF files. It also [works] very well with prototyping tools such as proto.io and Bravo App. At ExMachina we also selected Sketch for its handover capabilities and …
Sketch is much better for web design than Adobe products. It's easier to learn and use, and it's a much more efficient way to hand off design files to developers. However, given a choice between Figma and Sketch, I'd choose Figma because of its cloud file storage and …
Sketch eliminates all the complexity of Photoshop and it simplifies the screen design process for web, UI, UX designers. It is also much faster software with capabilities to make responsive design quickly.
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Chose Sketch
I was a big Fireworks user when it was discontinued by Adobe. At the time most people used Photoshop, but I've never liked Photoshop for web designs because it was built for photo editing, not vector graphics. I've heard Illustrator might be a pretty good alternative now, but …
Again, I would say that Sketch stacks up very well against similar Adobe products in the field. I get the sense, just from the little bit I've used it, that It may not be as robust as some of the Adobe products. However, for my needs (fundamental to the middle of the road use), …
I think they are both similar and different. I can generally choose an Adobe product when I'm looking for a specific end result. I use Sketch a lot for layout, UI and UX design cause it just takes all the frills out of the equation while giving me an equal end product. They are …
Ultimately I did not select Sketch, but for a while, it was the software of choice over Photoshop or Illustrator. Photoshop was never a good fit for prototyping, as it's made for intense photo editing and has a lot of UI debt that's built up. It also facilitated a particular …
While we still hold some Adobe Creative Cloud licenses, we use Sketch much more often, far and away. Sketch isn't great for print jobs, so we use other software for that, but for pretty much everything else, Sketch is simple, cost-effective, and helps us deliver high-quality …
It was simply a focused toolset that made building a toolset and a process around simple. Some tools required a lot of training to be proficient (Adobe products) and then there were tools like Balsamiq that was fast but did not make pixel perfect anything and was mainly for …
We needed to move on from Photoshop/Illustrator and Adobe XD is better than the other two, but still didn't seem to be on par with Sketch. Sketch is light-weight, but also powerful. It was really easy to use and the designers have enjoyed getting to know how to use it.
Sketch is great. I "grew up" using Adobe products so it's been a bit of a learning curve, but Sketch is nice for quick designs and collaborative sharing.
All new design tools including Sketch will be better than Adobe. Adobe will try to catch up, but the way they work at that corporation, it will be impossible.
Unlike the Adobe Suite, Sketch was specifically designed for designing digital interfaces. Having built-in prototyping, useful default artboard sizes and shared libraries makes it really useful. Adobe XD is really exciting, but honestly, our files are so invested in Sketch it …