--- description: Learn more about Adobe Photoshop price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in New Zealand. Read verified software reviews and find tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Adobe Photoshop Pricing, Reviews & Features - Capterra New Zealand 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Graphic Design Software](/directory/31010/graphic-design/software) > [Adobe Photoshop](/software/1012156/adobe-photoshop) # Adobe Photoshop Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1012156/adobe-photoshop Page: 1 / 100\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1012156/adobe-photoshop?page=2) > Image editing tool that helps businesses edit and enhance photos, create digital drawings \& store files in a centralized repository. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 2457 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 2457 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Adobe - **Founded**: 1982 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$22.99 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Adobe Photoshop is available for $59.99per month. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - CAD Tools - Collaboration Tools - Content Import/Export - Content Sharing - Custom Brushes - Custom Fonts - Design Templates - Drag & Drop - Image Editing - Image Library - Mobile App - Pattern, Colour & Art Storage - Pre-built Templates ## Integrations (10 total) - Adobe Acrobat Reader - Adobe After Effects - Adobe Bridge - Adobe Creative Cloud - Adobe Illustrator - Adobe InDesign - Adobe Lightroom - Adobe Premiere Pro - Canva - CorelDRAW ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Graphic Design Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31010/graphic-design/software) ## Related Categories - [Graphic Design Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31010/graphic-design/software) - [Photo Editing Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/32778/photo-editing/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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But the further you delve into it, the more productivity and time-saving tools you discover, and that is where you really start finding value in it as a busy designer. > > **Cons**: Photoshop does have a steep learning curve and can be quite overwhelming to new users. Fortunately, this is offset by the number of tutorials, both free and paid, available online. The key for any new user is finding the workspace that suits you—having the right tools showing will make your life a lot easier. > > I've used Photoshop for 20+ years, primarily for print and publication design in both design, photo editing/correction and production environments. I've deployed it to teams and trained users on it. For anyone jumping into it for the first time, do lots of tutorials online, not just on creating but also setting up Photoshop for the best workflow - this is definitely a program you will learn by using. ----- ### "Graphic Design with Photoshop" — 4.0/5 > **Aroob** | *24 May 2026* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is the best software I have ever used for digital art designs. It has such a huge variety of tools to edit images and with so much ease for my graphic design work. > > **Cons**: Sometimes it can become overwhelming with the amount of tools and settings it offers if you are a beginner. > > It is the only software I have used since 2020 to edit images and create some cool artwork for my freelancing career. ----- ### "A Powerful Editing Tool with Professional Results" — 5.0/5 > **Brooks** | *11 June 2026* | Media Production | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: What I like most about Adobe Photoshop is how powerful and precise it is once you get used to it. It gives you total control over editing—whether you’re retouching photos, removing backgrounds, or creating digital art from scratch. SECURITY is strong with regular updates and cloud protection through Adobe. VALUE FOR MONEY is fair if you use it often because of its advanced features. CUSTOMER SUPPORT is helpful with guides, tutorials, and community help when needed. FONTS are a big plus because Photoshop offers tons of font options and also lets you install and customize fonts easily for creative designs. > > **Cons**: I don’t dislike anything about Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop stands out because it’s reliable, feature-rich, and trusted by professionals worldwide. > > Overall, my experience with Adobe Photoshop is very positive. It’s a powerful and professional tool that makes photo editing and design easy once you learn it. The tools are advanced, the font options are flexible, and the results always look high quality. It can take time to learn, but it’s worth it for the level of control and creativity it gives. ----- ### "The sad state of Adobe Photoshop" — 2.0/5 > **Sven** | *4 February 2026* | Photography | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ability to perform extensive digital editing and surgery with options to organise layers in groups and apply individual effects. > > **Cons**: Weak performance even on high end machines Lack of overall stability and plethora of bugs, overall quality Absence of innovative tools and processes General lack of progress in application development compared to CS6 Lack of integration with Camera Raw, Bridge and other tools Abysmal performance and quality of the bride application > > Adobe is wants us to believe that their products are gold standard in image processing and spearheading the "AI Revolution" The truth about the technical state of Photoshop and their so called AI is ... Not only the AI revolution is not happening. In fact Adobe is offering a technically outdated and partly dysfunctional product as state of the art and at the same time putting their customers at a disadvantage wherever they can. Users who hope for a plethora of new productivity tools and features, stellar performance gains with incredibly more powerful hardware will be thoroughly disappointed as compared to even CS6. The product is basically still on the technical level of 2012, bugged, extremely slow, inaccurate and cumbersome. Changes applied in the past to introduce "modern" features made it worse. People who apparently never worked on a professional workflow designed tool and interface behavior that disrupt your learned workflows and is in part strongly counterproductive. Some highlights: Even basics do not work properly. Custom key or workspace configurations break and get reset frequently to the defaults. Adobe is pestering users with new tools and features which mostly are just useless, annoying and hindering your workflows instead of offering progress. Memory management is basically absent leading to constant out of memory errors even on 64 GIG machines while processing rather small files. Multi-Tasking at least across Bridge and PS ? Too much for Adobe in 2025 to master such alien technology Problems with GPU integration are everywhere rendering GPU support basically useless. The clues less support staff tells you not to use GPU Acceleration features if you run into problems ... Its like as if Porsche would tell you not to drive your car if you experienced issues ... Processing speed is abhorrently slow even on high performance machines. There is not really a performance gain at all compared to the 2012 version. Due to the overhead of useless new features its rather slower. Working with the same files from 2012 does not show improvement. On a machine which is insanely more powerful. Text management is still on the level of PS 3. Barely usable. If you are offline text can no longer be changed. Rendering of PDF Text is like a lucky draw ... Often the text does not render properly breaking your design. Only rasterizing solves such issues ... Insane ... Their tools can still not create good object maskings ... now AI would certainly be helpful here. Alas its nowhere to be found. Instead we are dealing with the same outdated tools from a decade ago. The PDF engine can still not auto process PSB files properly. Color statistics synchronisation across image series is still missing from the toolbox. The color Matching is an inferior and laughable attempt to address this. Patching is still not able to realistically remove blemishes on sightly larger areas without blotching everything. The Bridge application could be the perfect complement as a file manager but it is so bugged that it is just a nuisance. The performance is ridiculously bad even with ultra fast NAND SSD. Creating thumbnails takes minutes and need to be recreated almost each time you review a certain folder irrelevant of what you define in the settings. Opening an already fully indexed folder sometimes takes 10 seconds until you can start scrolling ... if you click too quickly the app freezes. Modern UI feelings ... Settings break all the time ánd need to be reapplied. Finally, the highly praised AI is either hilariously absent from the program or generates laughably bad results. Nude photography is excluded even from the "AI" functionality. Fact is ... companies like Adobe or Phase One do simply have no idea on how to leverage AI and improving a product. They are big mouthed about those thing while they do not even have age old standards like image file management mastered. ----- ### "Adobe Photoshop: Grounded by Its Own Heavy Lifting" — 4.0/5 > **Charlie** | *17 June 2026* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: What I appreciate most about Adobe Photoshop is its foundational layer system and its long-standing history of pioneering advanced isolation features. Coming from a software background, the stacking logic makes perfect sense—the way an element positioned above or below another dynamically dictates the visual outcome on the canvas is both intuitive and incredibly powerful for complex editing. Furthermore, having used tools like the Magic Eraser long before mobile devices popularized automated background removal, the platform's ability to seamlessly isolate, mask, and manipulate specific elements of an image remains unmatched in my daily workflow. > > **Cons**: The biggest drawback of Adobe Photoshop is its rigid lack of mobile optimization and its high hardware performance threshold. While Adobe is clearly attempting to target the smartphone market, the application heavily relies on desktop-class processing power and fails to scale down effectively for lower-spec mobile devices. This severe limitation completely restricts your mobility, forcing you to remain tethered to a powerful workstation rather than allowing you to seamlessly transition your daily workflow to lighter, more portable hardware on the go. > > From a brand-building and web development perspective, Adobe Photoshop serves as a highly versatile foundation for bringing visual concepts to life. Whether I am mapping out the structural layouts for new websites, vectorizing clean logos, or executing crisp image edits, the software provides the precision necessary to deliver professional client assets. While it can sometimes feel like overkill for simple edits, its robust feature set ensures that every asset created perfectly aligns with a client's broader corporate identity before the final design moves into production. ----- Page: 1 / 100\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1012156/adobe-photoshop?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1012156/adobe-photoshop) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data