Photoshop VS Illustrator

[ronmatt]

Blueflare, I only suggested PS because, these days it seems that the majority of people prefer to do things for the web as opposed to print, in which case 'vector' is almost meaningless. Learning Illustrator is also much more difficult, Not that PS is REALLY any easier, but any novice can, at least, see some progress in PS much quicker.I design for print, thus PS, ILL. In Design and Acrobat are essential and I really couldn't do without any of them. But, asked to make a choice, I choose the most common denominator. PS

[Lord Draker]

True. I still stand by photoshop though especally in my profession. Photshop to me is an alround program where as Illustrator seems to be more professionalised.

[raccoon2]

Hi
I'm a professional Graphic Designer.
How can you compare Photoshop with Illustrator, one is a bitmap program the other is a vector program.
If want to change or fix photos use photoshop, but don't design with it. if you enlarge your design it will pixelate thats what vector software is for.
If you want to Design Graphics, logos, business cards, etc use a vector program.
If you want to compare the two, you should ask Photoshop or Photopaint,
Illustrator or CorelDRAW.

[Phranque]

I've been with CorelDraw since version 3 and Photoshop for about three years only but I've never even opened 'Illustrator'. If, as mentioned above, Illustrator is a vector prog like CorelDraw then it can't be compared with Photoshop - it's neither 'worse' nor 'better', they are two different animals.

[sallybode]

With the more recent 7.0, CS and CS2, what you can do in Photoshop has encorporated much that you had to do in an illustration program. Now if you prefer, you are able to use Photoshop.

As far as ease of use, Photoshop is much easier.

Illustrator is a case of how not to select what you don't want.

Just because something is complicated doesn't make it good. Look at Xara, what can't you do and it is simple.

[BlueFlare]

I notice a lot of misunderstanding about Photoshop's fake vectors and true vector programs. Maybe this example explains the difference:

http://www.khulsey.com/demo_1howto.html