_Last checked: 28 September 2026._
If you reach for Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign for everyday files, this page says which of those jobs Lolly can take over and which stay with Adobe.
What Adobe does better
Adobe's specialist applications cover deep creative work. Photoshop, for example, provides detailed photo editing, selection, masking and compositing. A complex retouch and a recurring brand asset have different needs: compare the editing operations your work requires before you move that work.
Where they overlap
Both resize images, compose layouts and export professional formats. Lolly supports PDF/X, CMYK and high-bit-depth raster output, with format-specific capabilities, and its on-device utilities convert and clean files without uploading them.
How Lolly does the overlapping job
Standalone Lolly needs no Adobe account and no Lolly account, and runs the same engine in the browser, the desktop app and the CLI. Templates and design tokens keep each file consistent, and Share with rules turns a design into a tool other people fill in.
Lolly signs supported exports with Content Credentials on the device, on by default; you can turn them off. A device key proves the file has not changed since it was signed. An organisation can use its own certificate authority, so its verifiers trust the signer; Content Credentials Identity explains the difference. On-device transform utilities add no Lolly watermark or Content Credentials.
With an organisation
Lolly Work adds organisation sign-in, shared assets, approvals and server production, with server signing under an organisation certificate. What runs where sets the two parts side by side.
Adobe, Photoshop and Creative Cloud are trademarks of Adobe. This page describes where the products overlap and is not affiliated with Adobe.