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There is a reason for this. It makes no sense to make a photoshop competitor as this is not where we are heading.

Instead we are heading towards vectors as the primary asset which means toward visual editors that allow for scripting and much more granular control off assets such as animiation.

In 5-10 years ex. Sketch and other much more dynamic environments will be one of the de-facto standards as the older generations retire and the new ones come in.

Photoshop is the Quark of our time and it's heading for retirement I think.

P.S. I am part of the older generation and still uses Illustrator and sometimes Photoshop. I loved Fireworks but Adobe killed it.

However, having played around with Sketch I think I see where things are heading.

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Photoshop is for editing photos, not for drawing "assets". Unless you are trying to tell me that digital cameras will produce a vector drawing of scenes, I don't see bitmap editing software going away anytime soon, or ever.

Photoshop is not used primarily for editing photos in the software industry from my experience. In a world with responsive design needs vector based just gives you more versions of assets at different resolutions for less effort than any other approach.

Sure photo editing is one use for it. But much of it is in creating icons, mockups, non photo realistic things, and more.

How Photoshop is used doesn't really matter - it's intended as a photo editing product. Adobe already has an illustration / vector product and there's a reason they're separate.

How it's intended is most certainly what doesn't matter given how many people use it for other things than photo-editing.

First, I'd say "most people" is anecdotal and supposition.

Second, even if "most people" used Microsoft Word to build web pages I wouldn't treat it like a web IDE.

Which is why I never said it was that categorically so why the strawman?

But you know being a designer having worked with designers, having had a large design agency and done some work for Adobe I do consider myself fairly informed on the matter.

Whether you wanted to consider it a web IDE is besides the point. I remember the days when notepad was considered the gold standard.

If it helps you get the work done who care about what it was supposed to help them with.

I think you possibly have a limited perspective on what people are using photoshop, I'm pretty sure every professional photographer uses it in some way or another, for instance as are print designers.

?? I am saying it's being used for other things than photo-editing how is that a limited perspective?

I am well aware what photoshop can do and can't do having used it since it's early days.

You are however missing the point here.

Photoshop is being used for web design and app design as much if not more and have also added things like vectors to it's suite of tools to reflect that.

It's has nothing to do with whether bitmap editing goes aware but with what is going to be the de facto standard. If anything post-processing of images have removed much of the need for the core functionality of photoshop and will be easily re-produced by other editors.

You know I don't mind being downvoted if I talk about things I have no idea about and which are flat out wrong.

But please tell me why this comment deserve a down-vote?

I couldn't believe it when a colleague mentioned the other day I could open a video in Photoshop. I was convinced he was joking... but sure enough, you drag one in and get a timeline where you can scrub about it. I was shocked. Surprisingly since then, this feature has actually become quite handy for me in certain situations.

We're still tied to Adobe products like Illustrator and Phototshop, but to your point more than half of the product comps we do now we do in Sketch

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