Top 7 Graphic Designing Softwares

PreranaMalagi
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5 min readNov 12, 2022

Graphics designing software are used for editing photos, model creation, making invitation cards, logos etc. by millions of people. This tool is basically used for editing purpose.

Some of the top graphic designing software are:

1. Adobe Photoshop.

2. Adobe Illustrator.

3. CorelDRAW.

4. GIMP.

5. Crello.

6. Autodesk 3ds max.

7. Adobe Fireworks.

Let us look each of them in detail:

1. Adobe Photoshop:

Adobe Photoshop is a software which is used for raster image in multiple layers of editing, graphic design and digital art. It provides layers for the flexibity of the editing and designing process, as well as it provides a powerful tools for editing. These layers can support transparency and can act as mask for better editing of images, Shadows and other effects can also be applied. Several color layers can also be applied like: CMYK, RGB, Spot color and Duotone and Lap color space. There are 2 default file are created in this software called PSD (Photoshop document) and PSB (Photoshop Big)

PSD consists of maximum of 30,000 pixels for height and width and PSD has a file length of 2 gigabytes.

PSB is the extension of PSD which consists of 300,000 pixels for height and width and PSB has a file length of 4 exabytes (1 exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes).

2. Adobe Illustrator:

Adobe illustrator is a vector based software, basically this software is utilized to make logos, banners, wedding invitations etc. This software is used mostly for businness purpose.

If you are intersted in using Adobe Illustrator then you can folllow these steps:

  1. First basic skill is to just scribble, that makes you interact with the software and explore it more!
  2. Then next you can try making fonts, designs but see that the the shades you use is only “black” and “white” shades initially.
  3. Next, when you start pen tool, you have to bring control on your mouse.
  4. Then, strat filling colors.

This is the very useful and easy software as it is a tool which consists of versatile commands like pen tool, mesh tool, swatches etc. these will make it more easier. This software is more flexible as banners can be made of any size, Importing, editing and any kind of modifications can also be done! many kind of shapes, and other tools are readily available.

3. CorelDRAW:

This software was developed to develop some vector graphics. CorelDRAW is an ultimate 2D graphic designing solution!. There are many tools provided by CorelDRAW such as: Crop tool, shape tool , Zoom tool etc. CorelDRAW. provides friendly user interface, it expands creativity. It has live versatile tool like “node shaping” which comes under very flexible tool.

It also have many other features like, accepting many file formats and capable to run it on many processors. It is flexible tool to all printing tools, product designing, live sketching also!. And also pretty visuals that we see in magazines are done by CorelDRAW.

4. GIMP (GNU Image Manipultion Program / General Image Maniputlation Program)

GIMP is a graphic software tool same as Photoshop but GIMP is open source and free software for all. It has high quality image retouching process.

Some of the features are:

  1. This software is compatible to all the systems Linus, Mac OS and Microsoft windows.
  2. There are different types of brushing tools available.
  3. We have highly editing techniques. crop, rotate etc.
  4. Different king of file formats are also supported like gif, png, jpeg etc
  5. It can handle large professional video games in it.

It Is simple to use and user friendly.

5. Crello:

It is one of the best graphic designing software used for creativity. Crello is a tool which is used to create beautiful visual content such as: poster, cards, resumes, presentation, portfolio building, slides etc. This software is free to use . Crello can be used for educational purpose also by creating “mind maps”. Crello has different font styles, text styles and other beautiful tools that we can add. Crello can be used to teach students a new way of creative thinking.

6. Autodesk 3ds max:

Autodesk 3ds max model is used to build 3D modelling, animations, landscapes etc. Most of the times this tool is used to create building or a big project to see how the model looks after it is done!

for example:

such models can be build for visulization. many other advanced tools model building tools, animating tools, are provided to make it more flexible!.

7. Adobe Fireworks :

Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics . It is the interface for games and apps. It can be easily integrated with other Adobe products such as Dreamweaver and Flash for use in website designing. It will create an interactive graphics and website protocols.

Adobe Fireworks CS6 is the latest version to be released, many new features are added such as:

  1. New and improved panels.
  2. Color picker position.
  3. New template sections.
  4. Increased CSS support and many more…

That’s it for this week!

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