What’s the difference between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator?
Question by jayztttight: What’s the difference between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator?
And if I know Photoshop, will it be easy to learn illustrator?
Answer by nitin m
1. PHOTOSHOP
- PHOTOSHOP: PHOTO/PAINTING CONCEPT PIXEL BASED = BITMAP BASED
- PHOTOSHOP MAKES IMAGES WORKS ON FILES AS CANVAS
- PHOTOSHOP USES RGB COLOR MODE = TO MAKE IMAGES LOOK LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY
2. ILLUSTRATOR
- ILLUSTRATOR: DRAWING/DESIGN CONCEPT LINE BASED = VECTOR BASED (POSTSCRIPT BASED)
- ILLUSTRATOR MAKES OBJECTS WORKS ON FILES AS LAYOUTS
- ILLUSTRATOR USES CMYK COLOR MODE = TO MAKE IMAGES LOOK LIKE GRAPHIC DESIGN
Yes, If you are having the idea to use the layers in Photoshop then it would be helpful to understand the illustrator eaisly
Photoshop, uses pixel graphics. Picures made of colored dots. Depending on the color space you use it can be as simple as black and white to any color you want.
Look at a photoshop picture as a grid. Lets say 10×10
Now you have 100 pixels, you can give any color you want.
This works well to the point where you want to enlarge such a picture. Lets say to 20×20 Every single pixel becomes 4 times as large as before. Giving a blocky apearance.
This is where Illustrator comes in. It doesn’t use a grid, but describes a picture mathematically
Create a line from x to y
Create a curve
Add a circle with a 10 centimetre diametre, starting at the same point as x
And so on. Now you get Line art. Not so useful for Photo’s, but very useful for logo’s cartoons etc.
You can make it as large as you want, because the output is rendered when you print. Not earlier.
As opposite to Nitin m’s answer. Both can use RGB (Screencolor space) and CMYK (Print color space)
Photoshop is using for photo design and illustrator is using for graphic Design.