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Graphic design, also known as communication design, is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. The form of the communication can be physical or virtual and may include images, words, or graphic forms. The experience can take place in an instant or over a long period of time. The work can happen at any scale, from the design of a single postage stamp to a national postal signage system, or from a company’s digital avatar to the sprawling and interlinked digital and physical content of an international newspaper. It can also be for any purpose, whether commercial, educational, cultural, or political. Design that’s meant to be experienced in an instant is the easiest to recognize and has been around the longest. For over a hundred years, designers have arranged type, form, and image on posters, advertisements, packages, and other printed matter, as well as information visualizations and graphics for newspapers and magazi...

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Graphic designers are responsible for all the print and Web graphics you see in advertisements and publishing and in modern times, these designs are created almost entirely on computers. Graphic design software falls into a large number of categories, and each category has many different choices and subcategories. Artists use 2-D raster and vector graphics editors to compose layouts for ads, billboards and magazine spreads, and typographers use font-making software to create all the TrueType and OpenType fonts used by everyone from Hollywood film editors to the average computer user at home. They also use font-management software to keep track of the thousands of fonts installed on their computers. A Basic Collection of Graphic Design Software To get started in graphic design, at the minimum, you need a raster graphics editor, such as Adobe Photoshop, and a vector graphics editor, such as Adobe Illustrator. While there are free alternatives to these programs, they lack some of t...