Images are a great way to enhance audience retention and present complex information in an easy manner. Images make content more appealing to users which results in better performance of websites and web applications. Photo editing, manipulation and creation have always been tough tasks for designers so a lot of IT organizations released different photo editing software to ease this task. People often get confused in choosing the right software so we will compare two famous photo editing and image manipulation software, Adobe Photoshop and Procreate. Both of these softwares are very advance and provide a large number of robust tools to ease designing tasks.
Procreate is a computer application which is used to edit raster graphics. It was developed by Savage Interactive. It was developed for iOS and iPad OS only. Initially, it was launched in 2011 and its latest version was launched in 2022. It helps in making realistic digital images, some of the big projects include making posters of movies like Logan, Blade Runner etc. It comes packed with a large number of tools like brushes, layer functionality with blending mode and much more which makes it an efficient graphic editing software.
Advantages of Procreate
- It supports different file formats like .jpeg, .png, .psd, .tiff, gif etc.
- It supports animating features means no need to buy animation software.
- It allows users to create custom brushes according to their needs.
- It has a palette folder which gives a large number of colour options.
Disadvantages of Procreate
- It does not allow working with vector images.
- It does not allow any free trial to users.
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 which 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 which 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 which requires a lot of memory and space on your system.
Following is a table of differences between Procreate and Adobe Photoshop:
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| 1. | It can be understood as a graphic editing tool to create and manipulate raster images. | It can be understood as a pixel-based image editing software which is used to create, edit and manipulate images |
| 2. | It was developed by Savage Interactive. | It was developed by Adobe Incorporation. |
| 3. | It saves files with the .procreate extension. | Its files are saved in PSD or PSB formats. |
| 4. | It is only available for iOS and iPad OS only. | It supports Windows as well as Mac operating systems. |
| 5. | Its subscription starts at $9.99 per month. | Its subscription starts at $20.99 per month. |
| 6. | It is available in only 13 languages. | It is available in 26 languages. |
| 7. | It is built using Swift programming language. | It is built using Pascal and C++ programming languages. |
| 8. | It provides better customer support as compared to Photoshop. | It provides good customer support |