What is the difference between Illustrator and Photoshop?

What is the difference between Illustrator, Photoshop? What can they each do that the other can't?





Also how can i get a cheap deal for them or can i get them for free?





Thank you.What is the difference between Illustrator and Photoshop?
Adobe photoshop lets you draw and edit photos in bmp format, while illustrator is in the vector format. Vector means you can upscale the pic many times and it will not lose quality.





There are no legal ways of getting them free, but there are programs like them. GIMP is a good sub for photoshop and is free.What is the difference between Illustrator and Photoshop?
Illustrator saves descriptions of how to draw the picture, usually. It is reconstructed every time you open it. I frankly do not like Illustrator. I dislike privacy more though. If you don't have the money you can get a similar program, as powerful which you can import files back and forth between it and the presumably legitimate copy of photoshop at:





http://www.inkscape.org





Photoshop is one powerful bitmap editor. It saves other file formats but that is what it is. In this case also there is a free alternative. I much prefer photoshop because it is easier to take those to commercial printers, however I don't like piracy, prefering open source so the, in this case inferior open source alternative is:





http://www.gimp.org
Illustrator is vector-based and Photoshop is raster. Basically, raster graphics deal with pixels. You cannot zoom beyond 100% without stretching pixels and losing quality. Vector graphics use mathematical equations and functions to produce the image, so that you can zoom infinitely without losing any quality.





Photoshop is typically used for task like image retouching, design for the web and drawing.





Illustrator is used for logo design (so you can easily stretch it to any size).





You can't get legally get them for free as they are very expensive programs, but if you are in school, you will qualify for the education discount, which is usally about 50% off.
in photoshop you can edit the photos the way as you can.but the quality seems to be not upto the mark you should have to use lightroom or bridge to make it preety good





in case of illustrator it deals with vector images inthe sense though you edit the images the quality remains the same
Illustrator is a Vector image editing suite. Photoshop is for bitmap editing, however it does contain basic vector editing capabilities, enough for web work.
Illustrator is vector





Photoshop is raster