Graphic Design Software: Where to Start?

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Graphic design is a solution to many business needs, both for the creation of logos, layout of magazines, books, and even digital photo retouching to use images on social networks, posters, and different graphic compositions. But, what programs to use for design?

In my career as a teacher teaching concepts around design, I find that students are lost when it comes to choosing graphic programs. You have to first know that depending on the function to be performed, one program or another will be used and being able to complement them is the key to good work.

Graphical functions
non-digital graphic design elements

The design programs are differentiated by the following graphic functions:
Photo retouching
Digital retouching is about improving sweden phone data the quality of images. Programs with tools for cropping, resizing, editing saturation, brightness, tones, contrast are used, from scanning them if they are on paper to more complex editions such as photomontages. Among them is the Photoshop program , widely used in the field of photography, any photographer uses this program to improve their captures, and in design to create compositions with different creative solutions.

Vectorization
Vectorization consists of creating images with geometric elements such as circles, squares, lines and especially Bézier curves , created by the engineer who bears his name. Programs are used for this with tools to be able to create vector images, that is, without pixels. Its advantage over raster images is that they can be increased in size without compromising their quality or resolution. There are programs such as Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, or simple layouts of a few pages.