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There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrat

There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrator competitors.

dbla 12y ago
Is sketch considered more of an Illustrator competitor?
andrewljohnson 12y ago
Pixelmator is the best photoshop replacement IMO.
- eli 12y ago
  I like & use Pixelmator too, but it's really a Photoshop Elements competitor.
  - jkestner 12y ago
    Depends on your usage, I guess. I haven't used Photoshop Elements, but Pixelmator does 90% of what I used to use Photoshop for, from photo editing, color correction and retouching to prep for web. Really only go to Photoshop for certain filters, serious masking and color contortions. I use it more than I used to use Photoshop as it got bloated, and Pixelmator launches in a flash.
- danieldk 12y ago
  Acorn is also really nice. Of course, it's more lightweight than Photoshop (in the positive and negative senses).
ThomPete 12y ago
There is a reason for this. It makes no sense to make a photoshop competitor as this is not where we are heading. Instead we are heading towards vectors as the primary asset which means toward visual editors that allow for scripting and much more granular control off assets such as animiation. In 5-10 years ex. Sketch and other much more dynamic environments will be one of the de-facto standards as the older generations retire and the new ones come in. Photoshop is the Quark of our time and it's heading for retirement I think. P.S. I am part of the older generation and still uses Illustrator and sometimes Photoshop. I loved Fireworks but Adobe killed it. However, having played around with Sketch I think I see where things are heading.
- jpablo 12y ago
  Photoshop is for editing photos, not for drawing "assets". Unless you are trying to tell me that digital cameras will produce a vector drawing of scenes, I don't see bitmap editing software going away anytime soon, or ever.
  - ThomPete 12y ago
    I am well aware what photoshop can do and can't do having used it since it's early days. You are however missing the point here. Photoshop is being used for web design and app design as much if not more and have also added things like vectors to it's suite of tools to reflect that. It's has nothing to do with whether bitmap editing goes aware but with what is going to be the de facto standard. If anything post-processing of images have removed much of the need for the core functionality of photoshop and will be easily re-produced by other editors. You know I don't mind being downvoted if I talk about things I have no idea about and which are flat out wrong. But please tell me why this comment deserve a down-vote?
  - endergen 12y ago
    Photoshop is not used primarily for editing photos in the software industry from my experience. In a world with responsive design needs vector based just gives you more versions of assets at different resolutions for less effort than any other approach. Sure photo editing is one use for it. But much of it is in creating icons, mockups, non photo realistic things, and more.
    - nkozyra 12y ago
      How Photoshop is used doesn't really matter - it's intended as a photo editing product. Adobe already has an illustration / vector product and there's a reason they're separate.
      - ThomPete 12y ago
        How it's intended is most certainly what doesn't matter given how many people use it for other things than photo-editing.
ryanSrich 12y ago
In my field (Product Design/UI/UX) Photoshop seems to be falling out of popularity. It's being replaced with apps like Sketch and even frameworks like Framerjs.com. Photoshop is very poor for Product Design. These other applications are doing a great job of giving designers what they really want (easily repeatable elements, more precise measuring, better plugins, svg, etc). I know the Product Design market may not be one of Adobe's bigger ones but it's refreshing to see it being used less and less.

There really isn't any other software to compete at this point. Aviary and Gimp were the only Photoshop competitors. Inkscape and Aviary were the only Illustrator competitors.

dbla 12y ago

Is sketch considered more of an Illustrator competitor?

andrewljohnson 12y ago

Pixelmator is the best photoshop replacement IMO.

eli 12y ago
I like & use Pixelmator too, but it's really a Photoshop Elements competitor.
- jkestner 12y ago
  Depends on your usage, I guess. I haven't used Photoshop Elements, but Pixelmator does 90% of what I used to use Photoshop for, from photo editing, color correction and retouching to prep for web. Really only go to Photoshop for certain filters, serious masking and color contortions. I use it more than I used to use Photoshop as it got bloated, and Pixelmator launches in a flash.
danieldk 12y ago
Acorn is also really nice. Of course, it's more lightweight than Photoshop (in the positive and negative senses).

ThomPete 12y ago

There is a reason for this. It makes no sense to make a photoshop competitor as this is not where we are heading. Instead we are heading towards vectors as the primary asset which means toward visual editors that allow for scripting and much more granular control off assets such as animiation. In 5-10 years ex. Sketch and other much more dynamic environments will be one of the de-facto standards as the older generations retire and the new ones come in. Photoshop is the Quark of our time and it's heading for retirement I think. P.S. I am part of the older generation and still uses Illustrator and sometimes Photoshop. I loved Fireworks but Adobe killed it. However, having played around with Sketch I think I see where things are heading.

jpablo 12y ago
Photoshop is for editing photos, not for drawing "assets". Unless you are trying to tell me that digital cameras will produce a vector drawing of scenes, I don't see bitmap editing software going away anytime soon, or ever.
- ThomPete 12y ago
  I am well aware what photoshop can do and can't do having used it since it's early days. You are however missing the point here. Photoshop is being used for web design and app design as much if not more and have also added things like vectors to it's suite of tools to reflect that. It's has nothing to do with whether bitmap editing goes aware but with what is going to be the de facto standard. If anything post-processing of images have removed much of the need for the core functionality of photoshop and will be easily re-produced by other editors. You know I don't mind being downvoted if I talk about things I have no idea about and which are flat out wrong. But please tell me why this comment deserve a down-vote?
- endergen 12y ago
  Photoshop is not used primarily for editing photos in the software industry from my experience. In a world with responsive design needs vector based just gives you more versions of assets at different resolutions for less effort than any other approach. Sure photo editing is one use for it. But much of it is in creating icons, mockups, non photo realistic things, and more.
  - nkozyra 12y ago
    How Photoshop is used doesn't really matter - it's intended as a photo editing product. Adobe already has an illustration / vector product and there's a reason they're separate.
    - ThomPete 12y ago
      How it's intended is most certainly what doesn't matter given how many people use it for other things than photo-editing.

ryanSrich 12y ago

In my field (Product Design/UI/UX) Photoshop seems to be falling out of popularity. It's being replaced with apps like Sketch and even frameworks like Framerjs.com. Photoshop is very poor for Product Design. These other applications are doing a great job of giving designers what they really want (easily repeatable elements, more precise measuring, better plugins, svg, etc). I know the Product Design market may not be one of Adobe's bigger ones but it's refreshing to see it being used less and less.