Photoshop vs Picktorial

Photoshop is used by professionals everywhere. It is taught in classes, used by artists and is even used by medical professionals. If you've seen a magazine ad featuring a model, you've probably seen the effects of Photoshop. You won't be alone when using Photoshop. The internet is full of tutorials and videos on how to use Photoshop. This fact, coupled with the trove of plugins available for Photoshop means you can use it it to make the professional looking or artistic images you need.

Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software available today allowing you to perform highly advanced image manipulation.

On top of that it offers features beyond the realm of typical image editing software tools such as support for video editing, 3d elements and 3d printing among others.

Photoshop includes content-aware tools such as content-aware fill that can fill in a select area based on what surrounds it.

Lightroom is another image editing software from Adobe that's specifically designed for photo editing and managing of large quantities of digital images.

A stripped down version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements can be bought as a standalone application for $100.

There's a free mobile app available for iOS, Android & Windows Phone.

There's a huge number of both free and paid tutorials available online. Websites like Lynda.com offer premium high-quality, in-depth tutorials, but there are plenty of free alternatives to be found on YouTube, blogs and specialized sites on the Internet.

Browsing and editing are very fast. Much better than lightroom and most other competitors.

This software makes editing fun.

No need to move between different slow modules.

Every edit is non-destructive, no matter the order.

It's catalog free so no need with slow import and backup problems.

Has many options Lightroom doesn't, like HSL, curves and split tone within local adjustment.

Much better than a subscription to pay every month and very affordable for what it does.