If you know you're going to be doing a lot of digital art and you want the best software, a Creative Cloud subscription is probably the way to go (our guide to the best Adobe Creative Cloud deals is regularly updated with the best deals). Adobe of course offers its own vector editor in the form of Adobe Illustrator, and you don't necessarily need to choose between them, as getting a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud gives you both. The only real drawback of Photoshop is that it's not a vector editor, meaning you don't get smooth, scalable lines. And new features are being added all the time – we particularly loved the new neural filters in our Photoshop 2022 review, where we said 'Photoshop 2022 is so good at so many things it’s hard not to recommend buying it'.
There's also an impressive library of Photoshop plugins available to add extra functionality.
You can easily share your data and access all of your assets, including brushes, images, colours and styles, across all of your devices. Check out our guide to how to download Photoshop to find out more. Photoshop works across a wide range of devices, including smartphones and tablets as well as Macs and PCs.
