: Is it good practice for designers to use Photoshop? I'm a software developer, not a designer, I usually have designs provided by my clients before the work begins. It seems the designers always

@Turnbaugh909

Whatever gets the job done

Photoshop is absolutely fine for some tasks. In fact, it may even be better at times. It all depends upon the final desired output. (example: Illustrator can't dither gradients... Photoshop will.)

A well-rounded designer will use many tools to complete a project. It is rare to rely on only one piece of software for all projects. While Fireworks and Illustrator are fantastic at many things, Photoshop is just as fantastic at other things.

In the end it doesn't matter if you use Illustrator, Fireworks, Photoshop, Sketch, CorelDraw, Xara, MS Paint, KidPix, iPhoto or anything else as long as you get the result you need.

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@Sherry646

Actually Photoshop is design software.. It "also" has options for editing a photo. Primarily designing is done with Photoshop. It cannot be sidelined as a photo editor. Photoshop is certainly not similar to picassa editors.

The wide range of features enables people to experiment with every kind of effects. There are many ways with which one can create designs in Photoshop such as gradients, brushes, filter gallery, patterns etc.

One has to experiment with the software. Try this tutorial online but there are many tutorials provided by Adobe. Youtube has a wide range of videos and Facebook has pages which provides tutorials and updates about latest features of Photoshop.

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@Becky351

Yes, using Photoshop for designing software is industry standard practice.

Im totally with you, i prefer making designs in Indesign or Illustrator vector based, but Photoshop supports vectors too (Smart Objects) and many people use it.

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