Adobe Photoshop vs IrfanView

Adobe Photoshop

Description: Adobe Photoshop, the industry-standard for image editing and manipulation. Unleash your creativity with powerful tools for graphic design, photo enhancement, and digital art. From retouching to compositing, Photoshop empowers users to bring their visual ideas to life.

Type: software

Pricing: free

IrfanView

Description: IrfanView is a free, open source image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It supports a wide variety of image formats and basic image editing features like cropping, resizing and color adjustments.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Adobe Photoshop Features

• Layers
• Selection tools
• Retouching tools
• Painting and drawing
• Filters and effects
• 3D tools
• Automation
• Camera Raw
• Content-aware tools
• Presets and plugins

IrfanView Features

• Supports a wide variety of image formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
• Basic image editing tools like cropping, resizing, rotating, color adjustments
• Thumbnail/contact sheet generator
• Slideshow creator
• Batch conversion/renaming of images
• Plugins allow extending functionality

Adobe Photoshop

• free

IrfanView

• Open Source