Illustrator or Photoshop?

[spottypenguin]

Both and Indesign; as most people have said, depends what I'm doing.

But in a nutshell: Illy for logos / graphic shapes or elements; Photoshop for photo manipulation or some effects you just can't achieve in Illy and indesign for all publication work.

[Katedesign]

Indesign for layout (brochures/LH/CS/BC etc); Illustrator for vector images (logos/maps); Photoshop for photos....

[richimgd]

Maybe you might be better not asking such a vague question as good research comes from asking good questions. There are a lot of good answers here though as people have explained some of the reasons why there use one or the other. I happen to use both pieces of software, but I would expect so do most other designers!

[Paul Murray]

I use both, plus InDesign, plus other software occasionally (Cinema4D for example) if I need to. Right tool for the job and all that.

[tom thurs]

Indesign, but I'd like to use adobe robocop