Image Correction

• Users of Adobe Photoshop correct images quickly and easily using Lens Correction, Anti-Red Eye and other filters. Photoshop also offers powerful controls for detailed image editing, making it the industry choice for professional photo editing. QuarkXPress offers few tools for image alteration, since the developers intend users to import finalized images into the program. However, Quark users can brighten or darken images using the Levels, Brightness/Contrast or Curves effects, correct colors with Color Balance or Hue/Saturation or create vintage-looking images using the Selective Color effect. For images intended for on-screen display, QuarkXPress offers Gamma Correction. Users can change opacity and add drop shadows in Quark.
  
  

Drawing

• Some digital artists use Adobe Photoshop with a graphics tablet for direct drawing and painting on the computer. The program offers drawing tools and textures to make digital drawing easier, as well as some limited effects for vector artists, including line and shape tools. Quark's drawing tools are limited to vector tools almost exclusively, allowing users to create shapes, clone design elements, create pen illustrations and add clipping paths. These design tools work best for blending imported images into layouts and creating simple illustrations, rather than complex or detailed artwork.
  
  

Typography

• As a layout program, QuarkXPress excels in offering a range of typography features. It allows for text block linking, automatic styling, precise margin alignment, running text along complicated paths and adding typography from other languages and character sets, including East Asian languages. Adobe Photoshop offers far fewer detailed typography options. Photoshop users can create vector text in a range of colors and sizes but cannot apply most filters without first rasterizing the text. Adobe's offering also enables users to create text blocks, edit type layers and format text through leading, kerning, tracking, anti-aliasing options and adjust paragraph formatting. It does not contain advanced layout tools and works poorly for creating multipage publications with large amounts of text.
  
  

Layout

• QuarkXPress designers created a layout tool that includes the capability to generate complex, multipage works with built-in text flow. It automates many functions, moving text boxes and groups automatically and offering the option to synchronize elements so that changes happen to them at the same time. Adobe Photoshop was never meant as a layout tool, so its layout features are far more primitive. Users can create simple shapes and text boxes on a page but can't link these boxes. All text and elements must be edited one at a time. Users must lay out each page as a separate document or element.