Graphic design

Tools for Web and Graphic Designer

Graphic designers should continue exploring various tools which are ideal for their requirements and evade spending on those things that they don't need much.

Jr. UI/UX designer @Coditas. Earlier @Ednsquare. I am young and i like coffee

Published · Mar 17 2019

  
Everyone in the world – entrepreneurs, creatives and designers wish they could get more done in a day. They are looking to find ways to get more work done in less time, and are looking for getting stuff done in simple ways. The modern ways of working include technology and internet and has made the work of designers less complicated.

If a designer uses a handful of tools, it will provide a solid foundation for communicating the ideas and simplifying the work. So, in the journey to move from a good designer to a great one, all you have to do is have a set of tools with you.
1. ProofHub – Proofing tool

Designing teams are overloaded with creative work that includes discussions regarding the design, drafting the framework for the design, making changes and many other things to handle. The design you make will be checked at multiple levels before it gets final. And the whole process includes countless changes, several feedback and many things. So, the biggest challenge that comes for designers is proofing.
Proofing tool like ProofHub for designing teams will manage all your tasks easily and hassle-free. The client can easily explain you small changes like- Hey, shift this text here, or add color to this portion of the design. It eliminates the game of emails, feedback and approvals and reduces the time consumed for the entire process. With an online proofing tool like ProofHub, you can makes changes in your file instantly, add comments, highlight the flaws in the design while keeping everyone in loop.
2. Photoshop – Enhance your photos and designs

Imagine a program to take your artistic style into a digital world with confidence, a program that compliments your artistic style. Photoshop is an extremely powerful program for creating prints and patterns to be the best you can be in your design world. For designers it has countless options, tools, and settings to open up new opportunities, to create design that is more authentic with proper guidance.
Photoshop for Designers allows to:
Build confidence in your design skills
Enjoy the new insights
Create digital artwork based off your drawings
Learn from step-by-step instruction
A wonderful way to learn and remember
Speed up your design process
Bring your ideas to life
Stay motivated through daily emails and lessons
3. DesignBold

DesignBold is a user-friendly online design tool (basically a simplified version of Photoshop) which helps you create stunning designs within only several drags-and-drops. With a massive library of 12,080++ customizable layouts and myriad design resources, DesignBold is a great choice for you to build the website elements yourself. For instance, a logo, a header or any other types of visuals for your website content. It is quick, cost-effective and suitable for both amateur and professional designers.
4. Fotor – Online edit images & design poster, invitation

No matter the basic photo editing such as one-tap enhance the image bright and portrait beauty, or making some business promotion stuff poster, card, Fotor is a good assistant for you. Just input your own image or use its stock photo directly, adding some text and stickers to customize it easily. There are a number of Features that are helpful for designers, like:
Design templates
Design stickers
Text and fonts
Cloud saving 
5.  Illustrator – Create logos, icons and sketches

Adobe Illustrator offers 2D or 3D graphics manipulation to increase efficiency in the design workflow. Designers including bot graphic designers and digital artists can use Illustrator to create many different types of digital products.  It rolls out exciting features for designers like variable fonts, faster document creation, easier image cropping, stylist sets to texts, stability enhancements, and modern user experience and many more.
6. Sketch 3 – Graphic app

Sketch 3 has all set of nested symbols that will help create your best work. You can combine the symbols together to create reusable, flexible design with ease.  There are number of features that are extremely useful for designers, like:
Artboards
Text and shared styles
Color picker
Pixel perfection

7. Marvel – Prototyping tool

Prototyping is an essential tool for web design workflow these days. With Marvel, you can create anything from scratch, sync designs from your cloud storage! Sketch. Design with Marvel Canvas. Prototype and add gestures and transitions to your design. Marvel is a highly simplified interface that makes it fast and easy to learn. The tool works well for both non-designers and advanced UX folks.
8. Pixelmator – Image editor

Every designer needs to bring out a innovation time to time. Pixelmator Pro is a tool for designers packed with innovations. It features an elegant single window interface and simplified editing tools with intelligent image editing features. It is the perfect tool for building up multiple projects with intuitive tools for moving, resizing, and arranging layers.

Pixelmator Pro is also crafted with a unique collection of handcrafted brushes for to bring out the painter in you. The brushes have dual textures giving a unique dynamic blend to your art. So, make your design look as beautiful you want with the image editor tool.
9. Sublime text – Text editor

Sublime text is the text editor that you are surely going to fall in love with. Sublime Text 2 is a minimalist coding editor that will let you focus completely on your code. If you are working on websites, this will give your great power providing powerful shortcuts and tools to leap about a document, filter the file, and quickly make edits.
10. Palleton – A color scheme

Colors will bring life to any design and a designer knows the huge importance of a good color scheme. Palleton is designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well. If you need some help coming up with a color scheme for your website, Palleton will give you some amazing combinations. Choose your colors on a color wheel and select from some tried color combinations such as Monochromatic, Adjacent Colors, Triad, Tetrad, and Freestyle.