The Best Tools for Graphic Designers: provide gorgeous visuals for your projects

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Here’s a list of some of the best tools for graphic designers, covering both software and hardware to help create stunning visuals:

Software Tools:

#1 Adobe Creative Cloud Suite:

Photoshop: The software which is used in editing photos and making digital art.

Illustrator: The field specific to create vector based graphics and illustrations in today’s industries.

InDesign: Perfect when developing designs such as magazines, brochures, fliers, among other things.

After Effects: That is perfect for motion graphics and VFX, animation, and film.

Premiere Pro: For video and visuals As for the visual content, there is a subsection for video editing as figured out below.

#2 Affinity Designer:

A very effective tool to Adobe Illustrator with fantastic abilities for the vector illustrations.

It is not a service to which users subscribe, but rather pays once.

#3 Canva:

An online graphic design application that allows designing presentations, social media posts, and basic visuals with ease.

Small software ideal for a everyone especially in cases of emergencies or a small project.

#4 Procreate:

Most well-known by digital illustrators, Procreate is an application for iPad containing both brushes and drawing tools.

Perfect for sketching, pencil/brush sketching and painting.

#5 Figma:

An interactive prototype design software perfect for UI/UX design to create an interwoven working interface.

Enables users to work at the same time which makes it ideal for group works.

#6 Sketch:

Another great UI/UX design tool, usually applied to generate app and web concepts.

Provides a rich plugin philosophy.

#7 CorelDRAW:

An extensive graphic design application often classified under drawing, illustration, page layout and typography tools.

Supplies utilities for photo correction and photo color correction.

#8 Blender:

A version of free and open source suite of tools used in 3D modeling, animation and rendering.

Ideal for use in 3d, modeling and animation and architectural designing.

#9 Inkscape:

An open source bitmap editor like Adobe Photoshop.

Recommended for creating logos, illustrations, and all sorts of detailed designs that might be needed.

#10 Clip Studio Paint:

Fitted more to comic and manga artists effectively for drawing and inking.

Categorized into brushes and tools which are optimized for digital art.

Hardware Tools:

#1 Graphics Tablet:

Wacom Cintiq: Just one of the most used tablets for graphic designers, mainly because of a good quality of the screen.

Huion Kamvas: It is also less expensive than the first and offers high precision and pressure sensitivity.

XP-Pen Artist Pro: Another good option for those professional who need a high quality of the drawing.

#2 Monitor:

BenQ PD3200U: A monitor designed for graphic design with accurate color, in 4K resolution.

LG UltraFine 5K: Great for Mac users, high definition, and reasonably accurate color.

Dell UltraSharp U2720Q: A high quality and colored calibrated display of 4K resolution.

#3 Laptop/PC:

Apple MacBook Pro: Fast, very accurate in terms of color and built specifically for the macOS which designers love.

Microsoft Surface Studio: Designed as an integral all-in-one computer with touch technology it fits the needs of designers to a T.

Dell XPS Series: Famous for the high resolution and ideal performance for Windows platform.

#4 Color Calibration Tools:

X-Rite i1Display Pro: Help in keeping the colors true to themselves on different platforms.

Datacolor SpyderX Pro: Yet another one that will be a perfect fit for color calibration.

#5 Photography Tools:

DSLR or Mirrorless Camera: For the best image quality, Canon EOS R6 is perfect for image enthusiasts, Sony A7 IV, Nikon Z6 II.

Lightbox: This is perfect for product photography as it will have those ‘golden hour’ like lighting and less shadowing.

#6 Stock Asset Platforms:

Envato Elements: Free to use and very well stocked with templates, fonts as well as the stock images and vectors.

Unsplash / Pexels: Free high quality images for personal and commercial use.

Adobe Stock: Offers genuinely professional levels for stock images, templates as well as design assets.

Font Tools:

#1 Google Fonts:

Free collection of web fonts for simple adoption and implementation in web-based applications.

#2 Adobe Fonts:

Gives communities a range of fonts for different design purposes and comes along with Adobe Creative Cloud.

#3 FontBase:

It’s a tool that makes it easy to sort and filter your fonts as well as seamlessly integrate new fonts into your system.

Other Design Tools:

#1 Miro:

An app for sharing a virtual board where you can create mind maps, moods, and plans for several projects and events.

#2 Notion:

A multi-purpose app, good for further planning, for making lists, and for collecting ideas for designs.

#3 Design Cuts:

Graphic resources such as fonts, textures, brushes and templates for sale through a high quality platform.

Time-Saving Tools:

#1 Pinterest:

I found this really good for collecting inspirations and the so called mood boards.

#2 Coolors:

An application that is used to create color schemes as well as to experiment with them.

#3 Milanote:

A great application for collecting visual concepts and concepts in sketches and inspirations.

Typography Tools:

#1 WhatTheFont:

Essentially it is a font recognition app, where images with unknown fonts can be matched or a similar font can be found.

#2 Font Squirrel:

A set of free fonts which are very good quality for professional use.

With the help of such tools, graphic designers will be able to improve their projects as well as implement creative visions with great effectiveness and expressiveness! Please just let me know should you want me to go into more detail on any of these tools or if you are interested in using any other tool out there.

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