Canva vs Photoshop

Images are an extremely powerful way to present information either for showing a new product or service or to explain any typical concept. Around 3.2 billion images are uploaded on the internet on a daily basis which makes it a huge opportunity for graphic companies to produce image editing, creation, and manipulation software. A large number of softwares are available in the market which helps in different tasks like creating, drawing, exporting, converting, and editing images. People often find it difficult to choose the correct software as an individual and for company purposes so we will compare the functionalities of the two most famous software Canva and Photoshop to find out the best one.

Canva is a graphic designing tool that is used to create different types of visual content like posters, logos, social media advertisement templates, presentations, etc. It was founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams. Initially, it was launched in 2013. It supports different platforms like Web, Android, Mac, Windows, etc. It is available in multiple languages.

Advantages of Canva

• It has a simple and straightforward interface which is very easy for beginners.
• It provides free templates for users.
• It is a web app so no need to download anything and hence no disk storage is required.
• It supports most image formats. 
• It comes with an automatic background removal tool which helps in removing backgrounds easily. 

Disadvantages of Canva

• Internet connection is a must to use Canva.
• It does not have masking and layering features.

Adobe Photoshop is a graphic editor which is used to create and edit different types of images and allows users to save them in different formats. Thomas and John Knoll is known as its author and the development credit for this software goes to Adobe Incorporation. Initially, it was released in 1990 and its stable version was launched in 2022. It comes with a large number of tools to create and edit images like shape tools, selection tools, clone stamp tools, pen tools, etc.

Advantages of Adobe Photoshop

• It is a professional photo editing software that helps in editing photos in an easy way.
• Almost all the image formats are supported by this software.
• It is available for various operating systems.
• It provides a large number of templates to use.
• It is an all-round software that produces high-quality images which are compatible with different platforms.

Disadvantages of Adobe Photoshop

• Buying for a lifetime is not available, only monthly and a yearly subscription is available.
• It is heavy software that requires a lot of memory and space on your system.

Following is a table of differences between Canva and Adobe Photoshop:

	Canva	Photoshop
1.	It can be understood as a graphic designing platform to create visual content for different purposes.	It can be understood as a pixel-based image editing software that is used to create, edit and manipulate images
2.	It was developed by Canva Incorporation.	It was developed by Adobe Incorporation.
3.	Its subscription starts at $12.99 per month.	Its subscription starts at $20.99 per month.
4.	It is available in nearly 100 languages.	It is available in 26 languages.
5.	It is a web app so it does not require much memory.	It requires high memory nearly 2 GB RAM.
6.	It offers a 30-day free trial to its users.	It offers a trial for 7 days only.
7.	It is a good choice for beginners and intermediate-level graphic designers.	It is used by expert photographers and designers.
8.	It does not contain advanced image editing and manipulating tools.	It contains advanced editing and manipulation tools like image repair, blending mode, masking, noise reduction, etc.