For visuals and product listings, Picsart's photo editing tools offer solutions for a variety of businesses. While Picsart's capabilities are available through web or mobile, Picsart Enterprise offers photo and video editing APIs and SDKs, integrated through a variety of services (e.g. Zapier, Make, etc.) for a variety of additional use cases.
$13
per month
Procreate
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Savage, headquartered in North Hobart, Tasmania, is dedicated to making exceptional creative tools. They are the creators of Procreate, a digital art and illustration app for iPad. Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of artistic tools, advanced layer system, and its Valkyrie graphics engine — Procreate is designed to enable the creation of expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations and beautiful animations.
Picsart is well suited for quick online photo and video creation and editing. It has a lot of templates that can be used to quickly create collages and other artwork for professional use. The video editing tool is really useful for adding sound and text to videos and creating annotated videos for presentations. It is less appropriate for professional photo and video editors, as it lacks advanced editing tools. Graphics designers and other professionals in the photo editing or video editing industry might find this product underpowered.
Procreate is well-suited for any illustrator, whether they're a beginner or an expert. It offers a vast range of features that will allow anyone with an artistic inclination to start creating right away. It's also appropriate for budding designers, artists, and animators. While the animation options offered aren't super premium, it is a good place to start learning about animating in layers, e.g., in Photoshop. Procreate isn't suitable for people who want to illustrate vector-based images. The app currently only supports raster images that can't be scaled up.
There are a lot of features available to only paying subscribers, but all those features still appear for the nonpaying user, marked by the crown icon. Particularly with filters and stickers, it can be annoying to scroll through the majority of locked options to find the handful that is free. A filter option would be nice.
It would be nice to have access to previous projects where you could still go back and undo edits you've made. The draft feature seems to only be good for one project at a time.
Layers would be nice. That way when you use a sticker or add a photo on top and go on to make more edits, you could still move them around instead of just having to undo everything and re-add the stick or additional photo.
I have used Pixlr earlier but Picsart has more features than Pixlr. More effects, more stickers, and fonts on Picsart with high resolution image creation. Support also best at Picsart tool and they are improving customer experience time to time with new features.
Procreate is the easiest to understand out of all this software. I use it on my iPad, and I find that drawing with the Apple Pencil straight on Procreate is intuitive and simple, unlike using the complicated pen tool on Adobe Illustrator. As I've mentioned earlier, Procreate is a great app for beginners, whereas both Illustrator and Photoshop have steep learning curves. If you want to dive into designing right away, Procreate is your best option!
Streamlined editing with helpful tools that would take much longer to do manually in other software.
Free software without a watermark like many other apps, so it costs nothing but storage space on my phone.
Boosted my confidence in being able to post my photos, especially of myself, because I am able to better highlight the best parts of the photos and mask the distractions or less favorable parts of photos.
