You can be a professional designer by selecting right way to exhibit your designing skills. One such way is by choosing right designing software. Today, in this blog we are going to compare three very popular designing applications which are Adobe Photoshop, GIMP and Inkscape. Let’s have a look at each individually.
An Insight to Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software manufactured by Adobe Systems. One who wants to enter the arena of designing should sign up with professional Photoshop Course from any renowned training institutes for attaining advanced and essential tricks and techniques to get mastery on it. Let’s have a look at its features and some important tools.
Features of Adobe Photoshop are as follows:
- It allows to perform highly advanced image manipulation.
- You can use this application to crop, resize and correct color on digital photos.
- It has image adjustments, lens correction, retouching, image stitching, HDR, fixing framing tools.
- It has filters, styles, effects, fonts as well as tools for painting, sketching and typography work.
- It has both raster and vector graphics.
- It includes tools for video editing and supports 3D objects and 3D printing.
- It has editing system with layers that act as mask or filters, with underlying colors.
- Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) allows users to work on content from any computer.
- It usually takes up 1GB from your PC or Mac to perform.
- It needs High amount of RAM and other hardware resources.
- Photoshop is the photo editing software that is industry-standard.
- Photoshop has many proprietary tutorials.
- It's an excellent tool that makes photo editing easy and efficient.
- Photoshop offers Pantone colors. It doesn’t support GIMP’s native file format i.e. XCF files.
- Photoshop is only for Mac and Windows.
Tools and Other Features of Photoshop
- Healing tools
- Stroke smoothing
- Brush organization
- Various collaboration tools
- Custom path & width
- Copy-paste layers
- Curvature Pen tool
- CMYK mode
- Non-destructive editing (original layer remains unaltered).
USAGE OF PHOTOSHOP
- Photoshop is a software program developed by Adobe that allows users to edit graphics.
- It's used by graphic artists, designers and photographers, among others, and can enhance and manipulate images to improve their overall appearance.
INKSCAPE
Next in the queue is Inkscape which is a popular open-source application commonly used for editing vector graphics. You can not only edit graphics but you can create different graphics for instance logo, abstract, illustrations etc. It also allows you to import different software files such as Photoshop, SVG, and Illustrator.
The basic objects in Inkscape are Rectangles & Squares tool, 3D Boxes tool, Stars & Polygons tool, Circles/Ellipses/Arcs tool, Spirals too, Pencil tool (Paths, pen tool, Calligraphy tool (Paths), text tool, spray tool, paint bucket tool, connector tool.
GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) GIMP is completely free and open source, meaning you can use GIMP and manipulating graphic images that runs on Linux, other Unix-based operating systems, and also on Windows and Mac OS X. You can use all of its features without spending a penny.
USAGE OF GIMP
- GIMP is the most feature-rich free image editing tool. It has most image manipulation and workflow tools that you would expect from an image editing software and what it lacks it makes up with plugins.
- It allows you to quickly do basic photo manipulation so you can easily get the product you need without having to worry about complicated features getting in the way.
- GIMP versions are available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and UNIX.
GIMP’s Tools and Features
- Customizable interface
- Can write or change the source code to fit your needs or create new plugins
- Able to read and edit PSD files
- Full suite of painting tools
- Graphic design elements
- Digital Retouching
- Hardware support
- Scribus – an open-source page layout program to help publish your digital and printed materials.
- You can read and edit photoshop files in GIMP.
- GIMP is very small and lights not more than 25 MB.
- GIMP does not require a large amount of RAM or other hardware resources.
Photoshop Vs GIMP Vs Inkscape
- As compare to GIMP and Inkscape Photoshop consists of advanced features and produces the professional level of results.
- As compare to Photoshop, GIMP and Inkscape produce a lower quality of work and needed more time.
- GIMP and Inkscape both are open sources whereas Photoshop is paid software.
- GIMP and do not need large RAM, Photoshop need High RAM.
So, this is how we have completed our session on a comparison between three major applications.
Author Introduction: This blog is written by Priya Bhatnagar who is pursuing Architect Interior Premium course from ADMEC Multimedia Institute. This blog is the part of her Photoshop assessment which has been issued by Kapil Sir.
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