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January 22, 2014
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What is the best product for interior designers?

  • January 22, 2014
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Have not purchased a Photoshop product yet. Which one is best for interior designers? Tx

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    Correct answer John Waller

    There's no single answer. Depends on what you want to do with the software and what you want the software to do.

    Your choice: Photoshop Elements or Photoshop or Creative Cloud or Photoshop/Lightroom bundle.

    Do you prefer to own the software (perpetual license) or subscribe and pay a monthly fee (Creative Cloud)?

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    Participant
    April 11, 2017

    Hi,

    I think before getting into Photoshop you need first an interior design software to render your draft designs. You can use 3D Studio Max, Blender or Sketchup. Or use a web-based interior design software like: InnoPlanner, Homestyler or Planner5d.

    Afterwards you can proceed to Photoshop to refine your rendering image into a final photorealistic representation.

    Participant
    April 5, 2020

    Thank you I appreciate it

    Participant
    August 17, 2016

    I am studying interior design and I find the best products to use are photoshop/illustrator (for custom furniture design), indesign (For client mood boards etc) and archicad 19 for rendering perspective digital drawings!

    hope this helps

    Participant
    April 5, 2020

    Thank you 

    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    January 22, 2014

    In addition to John's suggestions, I would also look into Adobe Illustrator.

    Because it's a Vector Art program, when you have, say your furniture in Plan View, you can Scale them up, or down, while retaining sharpness. You can also design (or possibly buy), common furniture art, to be reused in many AI documents.

    In several CC (Creative Cloud) suites, AI is included, but check it out first.

    Good luck,

    Hunt

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 22, 2014

    Or maybe look at one of those 3D packages.  It's a competitive world, and impressing the client with a virtual walk-through of the revamped environment might be the difference between you, and someone else getting the work. 

    Home Styler comes from the same people who make Autocad, which is as good a recommendation as you can get.  I know nothing about it, but it says it's free!

    http://usa.autodesk.com/homestyler/

    But from an Adobe products point of view.  Photoshop for sure IMHO.  You can use it in a similar way to an airbrush artists adding shading and textures, and light and shadow. 

    Something else I'd definitely think about, is an Interior Design forum.  Flickr has thousands of such groups (it calls them Pools now), and you can ask the people already doing the same thing

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/interior/

    John Waller
    Community Expert
    John WallerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    January 22, 2014

    There's no single answer. Depends on what you want to do with the software and what you want the software to do.

    Your choice: Photoshop Elements or Photoshop or Creative Cloud or Photoshop/Lightroom bundle.

    Do you prefer to own the software (perpetual license) or subscribe and pay a monthly fee (Creative Cloud)?