How to become a good Graphic Designer for Beginners (2022 Guide)
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What is Graphics Design?
Before you jump start on your graphics design career as a beginner, you need to understand what graphics design is, How graphics design is been done and how to start doing graphics design. So what is Graphics Design. Graphics Design simply means the act of putting shapes, pictures, colors, dimensions, together to give bring out a design that tells a story. Interesting isn't it?
Now that you have know what graphics design is, we will move to the next sub topic.
5 Best Graphics Design Software tools for Beginners 2022
As you move forward in becoming a Graphics Designer, there are software tools that are used for graphics design . Lets quickly take a very Good look at them one after the other.
1. Corel Draw: CorelDraw is one the most popular used Graphics Design Software tool that is used globally by professional Graphic Designers. Its is used for creating flyers, banners, but for me it is best used for creating publications. for example . burial programs, wedding programs, books, magazine, yearbooks e.t.c. The software is very broad and will take at least 6 months to learn depending on how fast you learn. Below is how Corel draw work space looks Like.
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2. Adobe Photoshop: Photoshop as the name implies, is fully called Adobe Photoshop. It is mainly used for editing photos, but presently Photoshop is now being used for designing. it can be used to design flyers, banners, ecards Photobook e.t.c. This software is mainly used by Photographers, but now Graphic Designers has taken advantage of its powerful creative tools and use it for designing. below is how the workspace of photoshop looks like:
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3. Adobe Illustrator: Adobe illustrator is another powerful vector oriented design software. It is used to vector Design. It can be used to design flyers, banners, ecards, business cards, Mockups e.t.c 70% of Graphic Designers use this software for designing. Below is how the work space for adobe illustrator looks like:
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4. Adobe InDesign: This is another powerful designing software, it has similar features like corel draw but just a little difference. Adobe in design can be used to design flyers, ecards, banners and mostly yearbook and Magazines. Below is how the workspace of adobe InDesign looks like;
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5. Canva: This software has now become popular in the world of graphics designing. it has pre-installed templates that you can use and just edit quickly and your design will be ready ASAP. But the Good thing is ; It is very fast to use and will give you a fast and quick fix design in some minutes .
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MY ADVICE: If you are a beginner Graphics Designer, i will advice you start with corel draw and photoshop then you can add either indesign or illustrator . Yes! canva is good but will kill your creativity as a beginner graphics designer.
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