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Adobe Illustrator vs Adobe Lightroom: What are the differences?

What is Adobe Illustrator? Create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations. The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.

What is Adobe Lightroom? *Image organization and image manipulation software *. It is a cloud-based service for people who love photography, it gives you everything you need to edit, organize, store, and share your photos across desktop, mobile, and web.

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Lightroom can be categorized as "Graphic Design" tools.

According to the StackShare community, Adobe Illustrator has a broader approval, being mentioned in 114 company stacks & 282 developers stacks; compared to Adobe Lightroom, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Pros of Adobe Illustrator
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    Vector Creation
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    Cons of Adobe Illustrator
    Cons of Adobe Lightroom
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      Massive disk space usage
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      Adobe Updater to slow you down even more
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      Expensive
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      Not really a tool for web design
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      Clunky
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      What is Adobe Illustrator?

      The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.

      What is Adobe Lightroom?

      It is a cloud-based service for people who love photography, it gives you everything you need to edit, organize, store, and share your photos across desktop, mobile, and web.

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        What are some alternatives to Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Lightroom?
        Adobe InDesign
        The industry's leading page layout and design software enables you to create, proof and publish documents for print and digital media. Ir has everything to create posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs and more.
        Adobe Photoshop
        It is the best in the world of graphic design and image processing software that will realize any of your ideas. Create and enhance photos, illustrations and 3D graphic objects.
        Inkscape
        It is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This software can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.
        Sketch
        Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.
        Affinity Designer
        No bloat, no gimmicks, just all the tools you need, implemented how you always dreamed. It is a stripped back, pro-end workhorse that will always get your job done. It was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it’s simply a joy to use.
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