We actually have videos and posts that introduce you to the best Photoshop plugins for painting and for graphic design, feel free to check these out! CorelDraw They can help tremendously in bringing new features and tools to the app that aren’t inherently in it. The Clone Stamp Tool is another great tool within the software, it helps you make copies of the object you want to clone, effectively making it into a stamp! Other great tools include the dodge and burn tool, pen tool, the gradient tool and the blur and sharpen tool.Īs it is obvious from the great variety of its tools, Photoshop can be used by both photographers and digital artists who do hand drawn work such as digital painting and drawing.Īlthough not a tool, it is noteworthy that Photoshop has ‘plugins’ which are basically options, features and tools that aren’t in Photoshop, but people develop to be integrated and used in Photoshop. The selection tool is also a very important addition to the software, it comes with a variety of selection modes to make your work easier. CorelDrawĪnother great tool for portrait photographers is Spot Healing Brush Tool, which basically evens the skin out making for a spotless glowing skin. The canvas is in the middle, and lastly a tiny status bar is at the bottom with info such as zoom percentage and canvas size and DPI. The sidebar on the right has the color wheel at the top, a properties docker and a layers docker. The side bars are a different story, the left sidebar has all the drawing, shape, selection tools and such. Beneath that is another bar but with tools instead of an action menu. On top you have the action menu bar with the usual, File Edit, Image… and so on and so forth. The interface gives a very professional and focused look and feel to the software.Ĭolors aside, the software’s interface is organized in a way that is similar across the majority of 2D software these days, which begs the question: Could Photoshop have introduced this style of interface? That aside, let’s explore this interface. Photoshop’s interface has gone through so many changes over the years, I mean… how can it not change when it’s been here for so long? Nowadays we see Photoshop’s interface in all sleek black with white icons, which you will find across all Adobe’s products.

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