Photoshop

Photoshop is a great image editing software that carries a lot of truly great features not just for photographers but also for graphic artists and professional editors. Having said that, it can get quite expensive especially for beginners who aren’t earning all that much from their photo editing and graphic design. Open-source alternatives are gaining…

A Graphics Card is necessary for PCs as it renders images to the display. Without a Graphics Card you won’t be able to see any images on your monitor. So a GPU of some sort is needed even for basic functioning of your PC. An image-processing software such as Photoshop would definitely require a Graphics…

The cheapest way to get Photoshop is through the Photography plan as it offers Photoshop and Lightroom at a cheaper price than the standalone Photoshop option. Another option is to go for Photoshop Elements which involves a one-time payment. Although this one-time payment for Elements seems high at the time (US $99.9) as compared to…

Photoshop is best known for image editing, but can you edit video with it? Yes, CS6 and higher Photoshop versions can edit video files. Like other video editing software, Photoshop allows you to cut, add filters, text and layers to a video within a short time. However, Photoshop lacks enough features for advanced video editing…

Photoshop might not be running because it could be running in the background processes, you might have a corrupted Preferences file, Photoshop may need Admin clearance or you need to clean up your storage disks to free up space. If your PSD file is not opening it could be due to OpenGL causing problems, Photoshop…

Pixel art is getting more and more popular, and for good reason, It gets that 90’s nostalgia going! There are plenty of specialist design software out there for making pixel art, like Pixie and GIMP. But what about Photoshop, the most popular pixel-based design program out there? Is Photoshop Good for Pixel Art? Photoshop is…

Is Photoshop good for animation? Photoshop is a good tool for animation and can be used to create some pretty complex graphics. While it doesn’t have the high-end animation features of After Effect and cannot be used for cinematic animation it can still render good 2D animations. For example, if you simply need to create…

Is Photoshop compatible with Chromebook? No, the full Photoshop program is not compatible with Chromebook. This is because the hardware can’t support running a heavy program like Photoshop and because .exe files can’t be installed on the Chrome OS. However, Chromebooks can access Android apps through the Google Play Store so if you wanted you…

Krita is definitely better than Photoshop when it comes to pricing but apart from that it really depends on what kind of work you’ll be doing. If your work is more about creating digital art and digital paintings then Krita is the better program. However, if you need to do photo editing and graphic design…

Photoshop relies a lot more heavily on CPU than it does on GPU. While Adobe has been introducing more and more filters and tools that are GPU accelerated in recent updates of Photoshop the bulk of the processing power still comes from the CPU and that’s what I would recommend investing in. Photoshop CPU Requirements…