
A photograph, image or collection of vectors from Go Media’s Arsenal.They’re perfect for cold winter nights when you need to keep yourself busy without going into full work mode. If you’re like me, it’s hard to keep still when all you want to do is create all the time. It’s time for the holidays! That means lots of relaxation time, including time spent curled up by the fire. What tools would you like to see added to Photoshop? I must say, since watching the video, it surprises me that, as Abbey Esparza says, all tools in Photoshop don't have live previews as they do in Affinity.Creating your own coloring book using Photoshop > Whatever the case, these lesser-known applications have had to innovate just to get a sliver of the market share, which has lead to occasions like the premise of this video: a Photoshop alternative has powerful tools that Photoshop itself does not.

Some try to do more than Photoshop will ever try to do by becoming a "one-stop shop" for post-production and some try to do what Photoshop does, but offer it to their users at a much lower price.

However, somewhere in the last decade or so, we have seen the rise of many alternative programs similar to Photoshop. That is, to maintain its position at the top of the pile it had to keep improving and innovating to quench the ever-growing thirst of its users. Now, I look back and I see that it was comparatively simple compared to today's iterationĪ big part of why Photoshop has been in the industry standard for so long is because it is the industry standard. Photoshop seemed unthinkably complex and deep to the point of being tantamount to impossible to master. I picked up the software in my early teens when I wanted to make websites in Dreamweaver and I got a little hooked. I have been using Adobe Photoshop for nearly 20 years, which can't be true, but sadly is.

However, as alternative software improves and innovates, there are some features that Photoshop doesn't have that would improve it.

For most things retouching, Adobe Photoshop sets the pace and has been the industry standard for decades.
