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This category includes design and illustration based imaging. The Adobe Tools well suited to this are:

   Adobe Illustrator

With a similar vintage to Photoshop, the original and the best for vector work. To make sharp graphics, cool typography and resolution independent illustration, this is the tool for you.

   Adobe Dimension

A cool new tool to allow for integrating 3D objects into design work.

   Adobe XD

XD stands for eXperience Design. This is used for user interfaces, interactive products and website wire-framing.

   Adobe Fresco

A tool to allow painting, drawing and sketching with the look and feel of real world materials like paint, chalk, pencil etc. Especially powerful when used with a pen based input device like a tablet.

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This category includes Photography and pixel based imaging. The Adobe Tools well suited to this are:

   Adobe Photoshop

The original and the best. So ubiquitous that it has a verb named after it (photoshopped). Decades old and still improving, you can do anything with 2D pixel based imagery.

   Adobe Lightroom Classic

Preferred by professional photographers, this standalone workhorse of Photo pre-processing and preparation allows processing of RAW camera images, cropping, noise reduction and all of the stuff we used to do in a darkroom.

   Adobe Lightroom

A newer version of Lightroom which links to the cloud. Excellent for your family snaps and holiday photos and keeps everything available on the web when you need it.

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This category includes tools to publish work. The Adobe Tools well suited to this are:

  Adobe InDesign

This tool is a fully featured pre-press design solution. Use it for documents, flyers, posters and even a full book or thesis! Basically a word processing platform with graphics done right.

  Adobe Dreamweaver

This tool is for creating websites from the ground up using html and modern web standards. Not for the squeamish but very powerful for those wanting a unique and fast web site.

  Adobe Acrobat

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the accepted standard and open way to share documents and image files. This tool allows a range of manipulations and conversions when dealing with this format.

  Adobe Portfolio

This tool also creates websites, but does it in a very easy drag and drop fashion without touching a line of code.

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This category includes video, audio and audio visual sequences. The Adobe tools well suited to making media in this category are:

   Adobe Premiere Pro

A fully featured editing tool. Can be daunting at first but well worth it as once you have the basics, you can do pretty much anything with time-based media. from a basic photo slideshow up to a fully edited and graded motion picture.

   Adobe Premiere Rush

A simpler editing tool with a bunch of pre-made effects and templates, this is a good starting point for editing. When you hit the limits of this tool, it is easy to graduate to Premiere Pro and even the projects can be "upgraded".

   Adobe Audition

An amazing fully featured sound recording, editing and mixing tool. Use it alone to make podcasts and other audio clips or pair it with Premiere Pro to add truly pro soundtracks to your videos.

   Adobe Media Encoder

This is basically a swiss army knife of all the various media file types and formats. Use this to turn any file format into any other depending on the needs of delivery. It is built right in to Premiere Pro so you can get perfect results when publishing.

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This category includes animation and motion graphic sequences. The Adobe Tools well suited to making sequences in this category are:

  Adobe After Effects

A industry standard for decades, After Effects is an incredibly powerful tool to make titles, animation, motion graphics, chroma keying, visual effects and a heap of other stuff. Can be daunting at first but has no boundaries.

  Adobe Animate

A rebirthing of the popular Flash animation application, Adobe Animate is great to make web and vector based animations including interactivity.

  Adobe Character Animator

A tool related to Adobe After Effects but specifically to make animated characters come to life. Perfect for cartoons and comic type explanation videos.

  Adobe Mixamo

Similar to character animator but for full 3D game type characters. This is fun and useful for demonstration videos.