should i learn photoshop or illustrator first

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Anon01/27/25, 23:50No.459490

What do you want to learn it for? I would say photoshop if you want just to fuck around. Illustrator if you want to be a graphic designer, but you would need to learn both. Either way, the most important thing is learn how to think with them. You need what you want to do, then use the tool to do it. Imagine like if you were given those huge toolboxes and somebody told you "now you can fix anything in your home". Without knowing what to do with them or what to use for, it is as good as a paper weight. Same goes to ps/ai

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Anon01/28/25, 09:54No.459498

may as well start with pixels

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Anon01/30/25, 11:41No.459532

Anyone looking for free website and logo design, im tryna find clients for my agency

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Anon02/01/25, 13:39No.459548

You kind of need both, depending on what you do. Unless you're a like photographer or digital painter, the vector graphics due to scaling and being applicable everywhere, - those assets and the multi-page projects (put together in Illustrator, XD, Figma, Sketch, InDesign etc.) will be fundamentally more important in UI and print design than what specifically you use for freehand sketches and cropping, retouching and smudging up some stock photos (in Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Krita etc.) you insert in those vector projects. Websites are almost entirely vector graphics, - scalable, responsive typographic layouts with SVG vector icons. Vectors for most part are more boring, methodical and tedious to learn and do well though, but that's ure job.

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Anon02/02/25, 04:30No.459556

Illustrator is my go to but you will need to know how to use photoshop as well.

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Anon02/14/25, 23:34No.459694

kinda boils down to what you like id say. if you want to fuck with pictures learn photoshop. if you like drawing learn illustrator

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Anon02/17/25, 01:28No.459723

PS first, but make sure to learn the pen tool in it.Then start learning Illustrator.

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Anon02/19/25, 19:39No.459734

In school we learned Photoshop before Illustrator and after Illustrator we learned InDesign. I'm pretty sure there's a reason we learned them in this order, I just cannot express it as well as my instructors would.

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Anon04/27/25, 00:12No.460178

They are very , very different. As in: it doesn't matter which one you learn first.Unless you know what you're trying to do, the. You should start with the best tool for your case.

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Anon06/28/25, 08:58No.460681

Those are different applications with different approaches and use cases. It really depends on your goals.Photoshop works best with pixels and has its strength in image editing. Illustrator is a vector-based program and is used to create scalable graphics.If you are diving into graphic design in general and have no specific task in mind yet, I'd suggest to start with Photoshop first, because it also has some vector features and is more versatile overall.

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Anon10/03/25, 21:10No.462352

Photoshop, you can do vectors in both but only rasters in photoshop

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Anon10/04/25, 03:21No.462356

HELLO EVERYONE, new guy here, why not Inkscape and GIMP?Sincerely, Pinky

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Anon11/01/25, 16:44No.462589

why would you learn this shit if there are NO jobs. Go into healthcare or trade deadass

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Anon11/12/25, 09:26No.462797

Learn affinity instead

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Anon11/26/25, 16:45No.462928

GIMP and Inkscape

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Anon12/12/25, 16:59No.463108

You don't need to 'learn' software. You need to learn design. What do you want to do? Start with a task. Like 'branding for a space travel company' or 'website for making street signs'. Look at what people usually require for such jobs and make it in whatever tool you want. You'll learn software while you gonna working on the task. Solving the problem should be first, software is secondary.

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Anon12/15/25, 22:12No.463134

I first used illustrator and then photoshop but I recommand you to use indesign after that.

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Anon12/18/25, 23:23No.463183

i already know how to use photoshop but cant decide between cs6 or 2026, any help? dont care about the ai stuff in 2026 but cs6 is 12+ years old now and dont want my shit to look outdated money isnt an issue =)

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Anon12/19/25, 17:19No.463188

the cutoff for something that can be used in a virtual machine in somewhat performant way is 2018

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Anon01/25/26, 04:43No.463485

btw is there a way to get a cracked version of ps i dont feel like paying for it for my college class

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Anon01/28/26, 18:29No.463543

I heard that the recent Photoshop versions push their subscript AI shit and that CAF got worse as a result (to push you to buy credits for their AI fill-in replacement), is that true? Should I grab 2023 or around there?

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Anon02/09/26, 14:38No.463660

Anyone with a good trustworthy crack of illustrator?

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Anon02/19/26, 20:20No.463737

I use Clip Studio Paint

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Anon03/11/26, 04:41No.463889

shotofop forst

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Anon03/11/26, 21:19No.463894

Learn Photoshop then Illustrator, and apply design basics knowledge while at it Photoshop is for pixel stuff, image editing and composing Illustrator for vector graphics, so basically a lot of shit between creating icons for apps and logos to composing a full vectorial illustration, webside mockups or creating anything typography intensive after that go InDesign once you get into layouts and grids for dense text and multipage prints like books and mags

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Anon03/18/26, 15:15No.463937

Photoshop.When, I need design and curves, I gave up Illustrator. I use MSpaint, it's just good. 16 years experience as a professional illustrator and I use MSpaint from WindowsXP

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