Adobe PhotoShop Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10

Score

9.2 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Adobe PhotoShop are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Comprehensive Image Editing Capabilities: Users appreciate Adobe Photoshop for its extensive image editing capabilities such as cropping images to specific sizes and dimensions as well as facilitating desired exposure and seamless image merging. The software is highly valued for tasks like object or person removal, creating professional cards for employees, and improving the quality of pixelated images.

Advanced Editing Features: Reviewers value the software for its advanced editing features that enable sophisticated image manipulation, quick edits, multi-layered edits with multiple assets, resizing assets for web usage, generative fill options, document editing capabilities, digital painting tools, and basic marketing collateral design functionalities.

Various Design Possibilities: Customers rely on Adobe Photoshop for creating diverse designs for uses such as wedding invitations and church flyers due to its effectiveness in old photo restoration and document editing.

Reviews

210 Reviews

Adobe Photoshop is the best editor around

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Photoshop to create social media ads, to edit maps and images for our website. We edit photos of our recipients and get them ready for publication. We resize photos for collages and publications. It allows us to remove distractions from photos making them more powerful.

Pros

Edits Photos
Filter for better clarity
Bulk resize

Cons

I dont think it is hard to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Photoshop is a powerful tool that allows us to edit photos for publication. We filter, remove backgrounds, clean up photos and remove distractions.

Verified User

C-Level Executive (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

The industry standard in bitmap image manipulation and editing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 12, 2026

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Extremely well suited to practically any bitmap editing / manipulation (for print or digital output), however for vector or layout, other Adobe apps such as InDesign or Illustrator would be a better choice.

Joshua Liebmann

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

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 11, 2026

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a powerhouse and can do almost anything photo-related. If I were recommending, I would tell them they almost need to do Tutorials first because there is a lot it can do, but it's not always intuitive. If you're improving an old photo, there is nothing better than Photoshop.

Meredith Cooklis

Creative Director at moho creative (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

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Adobe PhotoShop the tool for teams

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 8, 2026

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe PhotoShop is well suited for people who mainly work in production, graphic design, photography, or marketing. I think fields that would not benefit from Adobe PhotoShop would be any that require multiple edits of hand drawn/written pieces. Though you could use Adobe PhotoShop on a tablet, drawing up engineering plans in Adobe PhotoShop would not be ideal.

Arianna Quiroz

Multimedia specialist at Sola Media (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Adobe Photoshop Review.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 8, 2026

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Megan Mac Kenzie

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

Vetted Review

14 years of experience

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Adobe PhotoShop is a must-have

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 1, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Photoshop is the gold standard for all of our promotional needs. This program provides the ability to design, edit, and create anything and everything you can need; from physical items to digital assets, it does it all. There are many free options out there that have modeled their functionality on Adobe Photoshop, but there is not anything as powerful as this program. I have used the program for many years from everything from photo editing, social media graphics, and even short form video.

Pros

Graphics
Photo editing
Mock ups

Cons

AI integrations still have room for improvement
Tutorials
Free templates

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe Photoshop is well suited for almost any need you can think of. It is most powerful in the photo realm, editing and manipulating photos. However, it has really grown to be a powerful tool for graphic design. When designing a full brochure or print material, Adobe PageMaker is more suitable, but Adobe Photoshop is so easy to use it has become the default even when it wasn't necessarily designed for that.

Verified User

Director (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

Photoshop is the CLICK you want to be part of.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 1, 2026

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

You MUST learn to use Adobe Photoshop well to truly output high-quality work. That said, Adobe Photoshop is the most versatile image editing software available and widely supported. Plus, there ARE endless "How To" videos on various Adobe Photoshop techniques available on YouTube. It's a great software choice and can help you personally and in business.

Marc Blake

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

Vetted Review

30 years of experience

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Adobe Photoshop has its issues sure but its still the tool you probably need

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 31, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Photoshop for a wide range of creative projects, from retouching event photos, to making social media content that's a composite of photos, to replacing backgrounds (or extending), cleaning up photos that aren't quite right, resizing assets, and more. PS has been an essential program in our creative toolbox for 20+ years.

Pros

Photo retouching
Cloning items to fill empty spaces
Editing content of an image to add or remove someone for example
Setting up concepts for digital assets like an email newsletter

Cons

The AI assist is not quite there in some instances
Updates tend to change long-standing hot keys or routines
Learning curve can be steep if you're not overly familiar with how Adobe PhotoShop works

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for all of the previous tasks mentioned, but the learning curve is getting a bit more complicated as they update and evolve, moving some key features, or swapping functions. For example, on one Mac in the office, proportional re-sizing is as simple as dragging the corner of the photo. On another one, it requires holding down Shift and dragging. Yes, that's because the versions are different, but many of us grew up using Shift as the modifier, so it just means learning new muscle memory.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

25 years of experience

Adobe Photoshop has challengers but it remains the go-to photo editor.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 31, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my corporate and non-profit work, I use Adobe PhotoShop for editing headshot photos, generating advertisements, creating poster artwork, and adjusting graphics for website designs. Although there are capable alternatives out there, the direct integration with InDesign, Adobe Express, Illustrator, and the rest of the suite makes it a powerful tool.

Pros

Adjustment of color and lighting
Generative AI from scratch and for editing
Cropping and resizing
Photo restoration

Cons

Focus on new AI features has been divisive - some users would prefer to see more focus on manual action and less on AI.
The subscription-only model is a turnoff for many.
The push to save files in the cloud rather than locally can be annoying.

Likelihood to Recommend

My main uses are in non-profit work for a local theatre. Through TechSoup we are able to get a nicely discounted cloud license, which makes the suite affordable. For many users, however, the subscription prices can put it out of range. With the rise of alternative open source and AI tools, Adobe will need to watch their backs. That all being said, the product itself remains the gold standard that everyone is trying to emulate. If you're a professional of any kind, Adobe PhotoShop is the goat.

Verified User

Professional (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

30 years of experience

Adobe PhotoShop is the best eventually

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 31, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I mostly use it to manipulate existing photos for eLearning and instructor led courses. It could be as simple as expanding the background to make something fit, or as cobbled as building a desk from various parts to use as part of an escape room. I also use it to easily add transparent background to a photo.

Pros

Editing photos
Extending backgrounds
Generative AI that can tweak all or some of an image

Cons

Simplify the user interface
It can be quite slow to launch and load
Gradients cab be confusing to get right
I wish the magic wand was more consistent when you tell it to select a subject

Likelihood to Recommend

Is use it to make cosmetic changes to an existing photo. If you try to do much, it can look real fake in a hurry. You hear the term "Photoshopped," and i think it can give people an inflated sense of the product. It can do amazing things, but it can look real silly.

Aaron Huffman

Senior Instructional Designer in Human Resources at NetJets (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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