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What are the best digital softwares to start your graphic design career?

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Thank you comment icon Daury, Adobe also offers online tutorials that give you the ability to sort tutorial content by “beginner” or “experienced,” giving you an overview of their apps and tips for specific types of projects. If you’re more of a hands-on learner, Adobe Creative Cloud offers tutorials within the desktop and mobile apps to help you get a feel for the software and how to get the most out of specific features as you use them. Doc Frick
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Alwyn’s Answer

There is a plethora of software applications that you could learn and work towards mastering to do graphic design. As the first pass recommendation for general graphic needs, you couldn’t go wrong with Adobe Creative Cloud as it provides depending on your subscription applications for photo (Photoshop and Lightroom), illustration (Illustrator), page layout (InDesign), and User Experience Design aka UX (Adobe XD). I know that Adobe offers student pricing which is substantially lower per month than their tier professional pricing. The benefit of Adobe products is that they routinely make updates that automatically cascade to your computer and are identical in feature and function on Windows and Mac computers.

If you find the cost execessive message me for additional recomemndations. Good luck!
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Susan’s Answer

Hi Daury, There are a few different disciplines in graphic design: Print, Digital, Animation, and UX.

Print is less needed these days, but it is a good base to start from. Print includes projects like brochures, posters, business cards, anything that is printed on something physical at a printing press company. The software for this is Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator (for creating illustrations or icons or logos) and Adobe Photoshop (for retouching photos).
Digital design includes web sites, landing pages, email, digital banners, social media posts... The best software for these is changing. I use Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop.
One great skill to have is animation. It pays less to be just an animator, but if it is an extra skill it can boost your income. Add animations to emails, landing pages, social media and wow your clients and increase your customer usage. I use After Effects and Premiere and Media Encoder and Photoshop. Enjoy.
UX is designing page hierarchy and structure for mobile apps, software, websites. I use Sketch, Innvision Studio for prototyping. Learn prototyping, it is a form of animation showcasing the click throughs for a site or mobile app!
If that isn't enough for you then learn responsive coding: HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript Querys.
Have fun!
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Sabrina’s Answer

I agree that Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma are the key tools to the trade. Consider picking up some basic web development skills. It's really important as so many graphics ultimately end up on the web. A good understanding of html, css, and working with svg will take you far!!
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Matt’s Answer

For web/mobile: Figma!
It's free and it's quickly becoming an industry norm for app design. These jobs also pay better than print design jobs.

For print, your best bet is with the Adobe CC, especially In-Design + Photoshop + Illustrator.
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Lucía’s Answer

The most obvious standard choice would be adobe suite. But now a days, the monthly subscription may be too high for certain students, so they have gone thru other more affordable choices such as Affinity which is a cheaper choice for Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Photo (the alternative for Adobe Photoshop) and Affinity Publisher (the alternative for Adobe InDesign).

Other software choices to check out may be:
Gravit Designer (i heard is good, but I haven't tried it out tbh)
Lunacy (also haven't tried it out)
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