Sketch vs Photoshop

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 InDesign. Both of these softwares are very advance and provide a large number of robust tools to ease designing tasks.

What is Sketch?

Sketch is computer software for editing vector graphics. It was developed by Sketch B.V which is a Dutch company. Initially, it was launched in 2010 and its stable version came in 2022. It supports only the mac operating system. It is available as a web platform also so to ease users.

Advantages of Sketch

• It provides industry-standard design features for making mobile and web designs.
• It allows third-party plugins to enhance its capabilities.
• It comes with a real-time sync feature.
• Presets and codes can be easily exported.

Disadvantages/Limitations of Sketch

• It does not support any operating system other than Mac.
• It is heavy software and requires a large amount of RAM.
• It does not provide any free version, and only gives a trial period of 30 days.

What is Photoshop?

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 Adobe Photoshop and Sketch:

	Photoshop	Sketch
1.	It can be understood as a pixel-based image editing software which is used to create, edit and manipulate images	It can be understood as a graphic editing tool to create and manipulate vector designs.
2.	It was developed by Adobe Incorporation.	It was developed by Sketch B.V
3.	It supports Windows as well as Mac operating systems.	It is not available for Windows and supports only mac.
4.	Its subscription starts at $20.99 per month.	It offers a 30-day free trial after which a subscription starts at $9 per month.
5.	Its files are saved in PSD or PSB formats.	It saves files with the .sketch extension.
6.	It is built using Pascal and C++ programming languages.	It is built using Objective C programming language
7.	It supports Extensible Markup Language (XML).	It does not support Extensible Markup Language (XML)
8.	It has large community support.	Community support is low as compared to Photoshop.