Are you a new graphic designer looking for software to generate creative designs? Or, any professional or student searching platforms to create presentation slides, posters or info-graphics? Or, do you simply want to come out of the shell of making slides using Microsoft PowerPoint? If your answer is yes, then you must carry on reading this article!
In this era of Instagram reels, people are in a race of posting aesthetic stuff. Even general people opt for editing and photoshopping their pictures before putting those on social media. Needless to say, big or small organisations and companies are handling their social media by hiring a graphic design team.
However, having nice-looking, eye-catchy professional, or creative graphics is not only essential for an organisation, but for an individual also. Whether it is a presentation slide, poster, info-graphics, CV, or social media post, having a professional or creative touch in it increases the chances of being successful.
There are many software available online for creating graphic designs. Let’s have a sneak peek of top five graphic designing tools –
Adobe Photoshop:
The name of Adobe Photoshop comes first in our mind if we think about graphic designing softwares. It is the most popular tool for graphic design and is used by millions of artists around the world.
This can be used from both Windows and Mac. Using this software you can create banners, posters, info-graphics, or logos etc., whatever you are wanting. From small edits to sophisticated designs, Adobe Photoshop has tools for you at every level.
Also, if you are a painter wanting to do digital painting, in Adobe Photoshop there are options for you to draw or paint anything. In case of painting or drawing, there are facilities to custom brush, pencil, canvas and scope of doing 3D art or any naturalistic art.
Adobe Illustrator:
Another platform for creating vivid graphic contents is Adobe Illustrator and this software can also be used from Windows and Mac. The specialty of this software is, it is vector-based. Vector artwork is art that is made up of vector graphics. These graphics are points, lines, curves and shapes that are based on mathematical formulas. When you scale a vector image file, it isn’t low resolution and there’s no loss of quality, so it can be sized to however large or small you need it to be.
This can be used to draw, mix, and refine designs to create something unique. Graphics created from this software can be used as business cards or billboards, and smartphones to 8k screens.
Adobe InDesign:
Another graphic designing software launched by Adobe is Adobe InDesign. This software can be used in both Windows and Mac and it is mainly used by the publishing industry. This platform is famous for creating magazines, info-sheets, books, posters, interactive PDFs, brochures etc.
This software is beginner friendly for its less sophisticated nature. Also, if anyone wants to work with team members on this platform, then they can use another version of this software called Adobe InCopy to work together.
Sketch:
The main purpose of this software is to generate digital design. And, one of the cons of this software is it can only be used from Mac. However, the digital designs generated through this are used for creating websites, apps, and interfaces. You can also collaborate with other designers on this platform.
This software has hundreds of plugins that let the users do vector editing and other precise tasks. But, this software is not the best suitable for print design or illustration.
Canva:
Last but not the least, Canva is also one of the most popular graphic designing platforms. The great part of this software is it can be used from Windows, Mac, Web Browser, Android and iOS. Canva is quite beginner friendly and quick and easy to use.
There are a ton of templates, fonts, backgrounds, illustrations, and animated figures and GIFs available on this platform. The users can create contents according to their need simply following the drag and drop process. However, the basic features are free in Canva and for the premium features the users need to pay.
Apart from the five mentioned softwares here, there are a lot of platforms available for graphic design and every software has its own speciality. The designer needs to choose the software according to his or her working criteria and demand. Selecting the right software for is crucial since it makes the work process smooth and quick.
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Nuzhat Mariam
Content Writing Intern
Youth School of Social Entrepreneurs