From logos of websites, pdf reader, YouTube videos to movies in theatres, apps developed by Adobe are everywhere. No doubt Adobe is the most famous name among artists and creators around the world. Adobe has a lot of apps in each category, and it is very hard to remember what each of them does.

1. Adobe Photoshop is the most famous app among all Adobe apps. So, let’s start with Adobe Photoshop, which is the software you want if you need to do anything with a photo, whether you are a professional or amateur. Photoshop is a versatile tool that is great for making posters, thumbnails, advertisements, wallpapers, and digital artwork. Artists use it to draw, sketch and even paint. Photographers use it to enhance and retouch their photos. Meanwhile, YouTubers use it to make cringy clickbait thumbnails, which we all must have come across till now.
2. Adobe Illustrator. At first glance, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop may seem to be quite similar, as it is also used for designing images, but the key difference is in how they store the artwork. Photoshop works with raster-art, hence it stores all photos as pixels. While Illustrator works with vector-art, and it stores the artwork as mathematical equations. Raster art will get pixelated if you enlarge it beyond its resolution, however, the vector-art can be zoomed in without losing any quality. The disadvantage of vector-art is that it cannot be used for anything detailed like photographs, hence we have two separate tools for each purpose. Illustrator is great for making icons, logos, posters, and graphics.
3. Adobe InDesign is publishing software that excels at projects which need multi-page layouts like magazines, newspapers, presentations, and books. It is good for arranging an enormous amount of text and photos into nice layouts, which can be used for printing. Making a magazine is a tough job that requires the collaboration of several professionals from various fields including editors, writers, photographers, and designers.
4. Adobe InCopy is a text editor that allows writers to write the text content while designers are simultaneously working on the graphics of the same document in InDesign. This significantly improves the efficiency as several people can work on the same project at the same time, thus making it possible for magazines to maintain their rapid schedules.
5. Adobe Lightroom is a photo editing software similar to Photoshop, but, it is specifically designed for making minor edits like color-balance, brightness, or contrast of extensive collections of photos. It doesn’t have pixel-level control found in Photoshop, but that also makes it far easier to learn. Professional photographers use it in their workflow as a photo management system for efficiently cataloging, organizing, and post-processing thousands of photos.
6. Adobe Bridge is an easy-to-use visual media manager that allows you to organize, browse and view your media files. Bridge can handle more types of files and it is more like a universal file manager which works together with all other Adobe software, whereas Lightroom is specifically designed to suit a photographer’s workflow.
7. Adobe Spark is a free online graphic design app that can do basic stuff like adding text to a photo or making simple videos using your photos.
8. Adobe Capture can make a color theme, picture, brush, pattern, or texture-out of any image on your screen. It is only available on android and iOS.
9. Adobe Premiere-Pro is a professional video editing tool used for making everything from YouTube videos to blockbuster movies. You can cut, edit and trim a large number of clips and then sequentially arrange them on a layered timeline where you can add various effects to your video. You can also add text, transition, audio effects, and much more.
10. Adobe After-Effects is a powerful software for creating all kinds of visual effects. It is basically Photoshop for videos. It is commonly used for creating animations, motion graphics, and other cinematic effects. You might ask if After-effects is so powerful, then why do I need Premier-pro? because you can only work with one video at a time in After-effects as it is not designed for editing the final sequence of the video, so after you create the visual effects you need to export it to Premiere-pro to make the final video.
11. Adobe Media-Encoder is specialized software for rendering the video you have created in Premier-pro or After-effects. Typically, the original file size could be huge, so it needs to be compressed and converted into a file format and resolution which can be smoothly played in various devices which may not have powerful processors or tons of RAM.
12. Adobe Prelude is a video editing tool dedicated for rough-cutting and organizing an enormous amount of videos. A movie might have several hours of footage shot with different cameras, so prelude is used to chop off unnecessary parts, sync various shots, and tag the content before it is sent to the main editing team.
13. Adobe Premiere Rush is again a video editing software which available for smartphones too along with desktop or laptops. It is a more compact version of Premiere-pro with fewer features.
14. Adobe Aero is a software to create augmented reality experiences. It doesn’t require any coding. Bring in 2D images from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or 3D models from Adobe Dimension, Substance, third-party apps like Cinema 4D, or asset libraries like Adobe Stock and TurboSquid to create a scene. Aero optimizes a wide range of properties for augmented reality, including OBJ, GLB, and glTF files, so you can see them in real-time.
15. Adobe Flash-player is software used to make simple 2D animations, games, and applications. If you have been on the internet for a while, you may have come across some sites asking you to install an adobe flash player to play certain games or videos. Those games were made with Flash.
16. Adobe Character-Animator makes it possible to create 2D characters without having to animate them frame-by-frame. It uses the webcam to copy your facial expressions and magically make your character imitate you. This saves a lot of time, as you don’t need to go through the pain of lip-syncing your characters manually.
17. Adobe Mixamo creates 3D characters, skeletal rigs, and animations that can be used for film, sports, immersive environments, and illustration that can bring your designs to life.
18. Adobe Dimension makes it easy for graphic-designers to add 3D models in a 2D image to create a photorealistic composite of both elements. This is useful in making product models for advertisements, prototyping, and package design. The professional software typically used for 3D modeling is extremely complex and has a steep learning curve, so the idea of Adobe dimension is to make the basic 3D modeling as simple as Photoshop.
19. Adobe XD is a user-experience and user-Interface prototyping tool for designing apps. It allows you to quickly make the mockup of your app so that everyone can see and discuss it before developers do the hard work of coding it.
20. Adobe DreamWeaver is a web-designing software that lets you make websites without having to touch the code, but it also features a powerful code editor which supports numerous programming languages, thus letting you customize the design however you like.
21. Adobe Acrobat-reader is a standard piece of software for viewing, printing, and signing all kinds of PDF documents. If you have ever come across PDF files, you might know it surely.
22. Adobe Acrobat-Pro creates, edits, and manages PDF documents.
23. Adobe Scan makes scanning notes, papers, receipts, and other items to PDF easy.
24. Adobe Stock is software where you can buy stock photos, videos, and 3D models.
25. Adobe Type is a collection of fonts. If you want good fonts, you can buy them from Adobe Type.
26. Adobe Behance is an online social media platform where creators around the world share their works for self-promotion
27. Adobe Portfolio can make basic websites using your photos. If you want to promote your work on your website.
28. If you find all these too complicated and want something simple, then there are Adobe Photoshop-elements and Adobe Premiere-elements which are dumbed down versions of their professional counterparts.
29. Adobe ColdFusion is a programming language created over two decades ago along with its development platform, but it is now steadily declining in popularity.
30. Adobe Experience-Cloud has its own set of sub-products for everything from social media campaigns to managing when to show ads on TV channels. it is for professionals who are more into marketing, analytics, or management.
31. Adobe RoboHelp is used to create and manage large knowledge bases like the ones you find on the Help page of some websites.
32. Adobe Presenter helps in making interactive slideshows.
33. Adobe Captivate is used for creating e-learning courses.
34. Adobe FrameMaker is used for writing large technical documents.
35. Adobe Speedgrade is a video color correction software.
36. Adobe Fireworks is a graphics design tool for web-designers.
37. Adobe Digital Editions is an ebook reader which also supports Epub format.
38. Adobe Connect is a tool to organize meetings, seminars, and webinars. A-Zoom alternative.
39. Adobe Auditions is a professional audio editor. It is the best digital audio editing software in the market, you can create, blend, and design sound effects.
40. Adobe Substance is a suite of products for the creation of 3D work. Through Substance, you can paint, create, design, and download high-end 3D materials