Hello everyone. I need your help with clarifying what software is more powerful for web developers who work with layouts, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
What is the best one (and why)? Photoshop? Illustrator?
Thanks!
well I don't have too much experience, But based on some searches I did: Photoshop as well as Gimp falls in the category of editing photos while Illustrator as well as Inkspace fall in the category of creating graphics So I think illustrator is your best choice Good luck!
Photoshop for image manipulation, Inkscape for vectors, because it's SVG based.
Designing: just start coding HTML/CSS :)
Hello, According to my experience, you first go with Photoshop and once you are master in Photoshop, you start learn Adobe Illustrator . There are many free online courses are available to learn adobe online.
Hope this will help you learning.
Jakub
Web Developer
Well this is a tough one.
Actually Illustrator doesn't provide the nessasary tools to build sites and interfaces. Its cool for Illustrations, icons and other vector art, but fails horribly at webdesign.
Then we have photoshop. It was a long time the tool for webdesign. The web is pixel based, so its easy to work with photoshop. However, the web is changing. The devices are changing.
I switched some time ago to Sketch. Which is kind of a hybrid. And I am pretty happy.
Not long ago, I had a project where I had to work with photoshop again, and its decreased my productivity rapidly.
I worked with two other on a project and it started with version conflicts. I had CC they had CS6 and they destroyed all my artboards (which are new in CC) . The next problem was, that I was working on a retina mbp and they not. So tl;dr it was a pain.