Software

Word

Word is a word possessor that has many different types of functions. These functions can be used for manipulating images to cropping them, resizing them, adding filters, changing the image resolution, rotating the image and adding text to the image. Word is a useful way for beginners to manipulating images. When you have gained more experience with Adobe Photoshop that is the software package you would use for manipulating images.

 

Photoshop

Photoshop is a software graphic package that is used for manipulating/creating images. Adobe Photoshop is not a free software package you would have to pay for this and it’s for people with more experience in the graphic industry. If you are looking for a free software package and don’t have much experience with manipulating/creating images you would use Pic Monkey which you find online.

 

Main Features

	Word	Adobe PS
Canvas Size	The canvas size is just an A4 page, you only have one option size to choose from which is cm.	Canvas size is the size of the image and if that’s not large enough they can change the size of the canvas. When changing the canvas size you have 7 different options to choose from.
Saving options	When saving the image the image is saved in the document making the image save limited.	When saving the image Photoshop allows you to choose from many different formats such as JPEG, BMP and GIF etc.
Colour adjustments	In word it allows you to change from dark varieties to light varieties and you can select already made colour adjustments or create your own.	In Photoshop it allows you to change the colour from 6 different options e.g. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Red Green and Blue.
Filters	In word it allows you to select 4 different filter options such as black + white, Washout, Sepia and Grayscale.	In Photoshop there are so many different filter options. It has drop down menus for the different filters.
Cropping	Word allows you to crop images easily by clicking the image, then tab changes to format and you select the cropping tool.	The cropping tool is a lot easier to find in Photoshop as it is always on the toolbar all you have to do is click on it.
Image resolution	Word is limited to the image resolution as in word you can’t change it.	In Photoshop you can change the image resolution which makes the pixels more prominent because they are resized.
Text Manipulation	In word it allows you to change the text size, colour, style and font format. The only way to move text in Word is by putting it in a textbox.	In Photoshop it allows you to change the position of the text easily, change colour, size, font format and style.
Selecting Objects	In Word when you click the image that is the image selected. There is not much more you can other than grouping the images/shapes.	In Photoshop there is much more of a variety when selecting the image. You can select the whole image or different parts of the image using the Lasso tool and the quick selection tool.