Photoshop - The king of all design software!
April 06, 2020

Photoshop - The king of all design software!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Photoshop

At BAPS Charities, we use Photoshop for a lot of reasons. A bulk of this deals with Marketing and Advertising for events. As a non-profit, we have a lot of annual events where we need flyers, posters for the environment, Mailchimp campaigns, logos for those events and signs and banners. We also use these certain elements created in Photoshop in other software by Adobe. So if we create logos within Photoshop with individual layers, we can then animate logos and those individual layers in Adobe After Effects (an advanced video editing software), etc.
Photoshop is actually being used within the design team, video team as well as the marketing team throughout all locations across the country and around the world, so it helps solve a lot of the business problems relating to social events, and content that relates with each and every one of those events.
  • It's the most notable software for graphic manipulation, so it comes with a lot of support from online communities, Youtube, etc.
  • There are lots of sites that provide a baseline for starting every project you can think of ranging from logos, flyers, brochures, signs/ banners, etc, so you can easily download free templates from online and get a project that satisfies you.
  • The interface is pretty simple, and each tool has its own "How to Use" instruction provided in one sentence for easy understanding for each user, so the curve for learning it is not that much.
  • I have a Macbook now, but when I was younger, with a not so powerful Windows computer, Photoshop took a lot of ram and computer power, which made my computer slow and heated up a lot.
  • It's strictly an image/ graphic manipulation software, so it doesn't have much when it comes to vector graphics. So you're basically working with pixels that become blurry at some point when you zoom in too much.
  • Sometimes the cost of Photoshop can be a little depressing. Being a college student with a lot of loans and tuition, sometimes it can get scary with all the monthly subscription cost.
  • It's good for our end-users. So if we create graphics like flyers, brochures, etc for our yearly social events, it convinces the audience to come to our events given how compelling the visuals are.
  • A lot of times, we don't have to start with projects from scratch because a lot of templates are provided online and we even go back from past project files for future projects.
  • Given the price of Photoshop, it's nothing compared to the results you get from how the audience that our content reaches.
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 behind Photoshop and the resources that come with it. For GIMP, there were not a lot of tutorials, template, or support from platforms like Youtube, and that reason alone was why we chose Photoshop, and its been one of the wisest decisions because the limits of Photoshop are limitless and there are thousands of free resources online.
I gave this rating because for the last 9 years, at our non-profit organization, Photoshop has helped us solve a lot of our needs when it came to social events, and sending out content for advertising for those campaigns. Even in last-minute situations, we could always find some online resource/ template as a basis and go from there. If there was ever a mistake, we could always go back and fix that mistake in a short amount of time.

Do you think Adobe PhotoShop delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe PhotoShop's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe PhotoShop live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Adobe PhotoShop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe PhotoShop again?

Yes

Adobe Photoshop has endless possibilities when it comes to how it can be used and what use cases it provides. As a designer for a non-profit organization and as a college student, a lot of things I've used it for range from creating compelling presentations for school projects to creating logos for charity events (walkathons, health fairs, Flu drives, blood drives, etc), as well as national event graphics ranging from environment posters, background wallpapers, projection screen backdrops, led screen overlays, etc. So this is just a small sample of what Photoshop can achieve.
Some things that it may not be good for are vector graphics. So if you need designs for printing (shirts, etc) that require vectorized files from the printing company, then you would have to get something like Adobe Illustrator, which specialized in vector projects.