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Adobe PhotoShop

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Adobe Photoshop is the best known graphics product on the market.

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Adobe Photoshop Review.

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Megan Mac KenzieView profile
Graphic Designer/Creative Director in Marketing at Megan Hyler Creative (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Photoshop daily for my graphic design/branding business. I utilize it for digital and print purposes-- editing photos, social media graphics, backgrounds for print media, etc. It solves the probably of being able to quickly do these tasks and export them for print or web in a small file size.

Pros

  • Ease of exporting for print or web.
  • Switching back and forth between tools like text, color, etc..
  • Layers panel is easy to navigate.

Cons

  • I am having a hard time grasping the new AI features, such as aware fill on photos. It used to be much easier.
  • I find the program crashes often.
  • I struggle to keep up with all of the new features when the app updates.

Return on Investment

  • Streamlines my process of using multiple Adobe applications for one project.
  • It could be more efficient by allowing different brand portfolios within Photoshop to access color palettes and fonts more easily.
  • I wish it was possible to pay for an entire year at one time and receive a discount.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Express, Canva, Google Analytics and Google Search Console

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Express, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader

The industry standard in bitmap image manipulation and editing

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Joshua LiebmannView profile
Head of Brand and Design in Marketing at Scentia (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Photoshop is the image editing application of choice for all of our designers. Whether print or digital, simple resizing and cropping, through to image manipulation and upscaling, Photoshop is a part of practically all design project workflows within our organisation. Integration with other apps in the Adobe Creative Suite is seamless, enabling us to work efficiently.

Pros

  • Image manipulation
  • Image upscaling
  • Integration with other Adobe apps
  • Image resizing

Cons

  • AI integration / features
  • Steep learning curve
  • Pricing could be an issue for some

Return on Investment

  • Increased efficiency for our designers thanks to features such as Generative Fill
  • Decreased reliance on stock libraries
  • No longer require addition subscriptions to upscaling or AI image generation apps

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects

Photoshop is a workhorse ... if you know how to use it.

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Meredith CooklisView profile
Creative Director at moho creative (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a video editor and family photographer, I use Photoshop almost every day in my business. Most of the time, it is removing logos' backgrounds, swapping kids' heads in family photos, or general photo fixes. The new AI has been super helpful in taking out the tedious work of editing.

Pros

  • Selecting certain people or objects within a photo.
  • Removing background colors.
  • Changing the color of a logo.

Cons

  • The content aware remove tool is better on Lightroom than photoshop.
  • Layers can get a bit confusing.

Return on Investment

  • Professional looking edits.
  • Makes me look like a better photographer.
  • Better website design with logos in uniform color.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Canva

Other Software Used

Adobe Premiere Pro, Slack, Google Drive, Google Chrome, Safari, Apple Pay, Microsoft 365, Google Meet

Adobe PhotoShop the tool for teams

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Arianna Quiroz
Multimedia specialist at Sola Media (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe PhotoShop to edit our branding photos as well as photos we take while hosting global conferences and presentations. Adobe PhotoShop allows our whole production team to access photos, presets and make comments/suggestions. Our organization really likes using the generative fill feature for YouTube thumbnails.

Pros

  • Generative fill features
  • AI features such as grain/noise reduction
  • Background removal

Cons

  • Object selection tool, sometimes selects layered objects when you only want one of the layers.
  • The layer tools are sometimes confusing to use
  • Saving paintbrushes to a "favorites" gallery

Return on Investment

  • We have not needed to hire an outside contractor as our graphic designer/web designer because of Adobe PhotoShop. People such as myself with experience of the tool are able to fulfill additional roles.
  • The tool saves so much time because it allows us to create templates.
  • Adobe PhotoShop has many helpful tutorials, saving money from taking a paid course on it.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Acrobat, Canva, Adobe After Effects and Adobe InDesign

Other Software Used

Canva, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Pro Tools

Photoshop is the CLICK you want to be part of.

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Marc BlakeView profile
Producer in Professional Services at Domrémy Talent (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Photoshop daily. In fact, the application starts when my computer starts each morning. My image editing and graphic creation tasks are numerous. I produce marketing graphics, social media posts, album covers for musicians, website graphics, and photographic image enhancements, including producing fine art photos. I also produce supporting images for video production.

Pros

  • Color Correction
  • Exposure adjustments
  • compositing multiple images
  • enhancing portraits
  • resizing images for various uses

Cons

  • Printing from Adobe Photoshop requires another set of skills and understanding. Plus, various high-end printers have different parameters, making quality printing a slow-to-dial-in process.
  • The export time ⌘ ⌥ ⬆︎ S take far too long for .png saves.
  • The video tools are useful, but Adobe and Photoshop do not provide much energy into making them more of a daily go to tool.

Return on Investment

  • I generate good amounts of income with Adobe Photoshop
  • Artists need artwork for their CDs. Adobe Photoshop is my go-to tool.
  • The monthly Creative Cloud fee is too expensive for non-teachers. Adobe OWNS ME in terms of I need the tools for my livelihood at any cost. They (seem) to know this from my experience.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat

Other Software Used

Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X, Topaz Gigapixel AI

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