What is the main purpose of graphic design? As follows; ：

1. Meet or communicate with customers to understand what they want from the project and help them get these ideas in a feasible way.

2. Design advertisements, annual reports, artworks, books and their covers, brochures, logos, magazine covers, logos, stickers, T-shirts, web pages and other brands and communication materials.

3. Modify the design summary to make it closer to the customer's budget and ideas.

4. Create designs by hand, sketch or paint, or use computer software to achieve similar goals.

5, put forward the idea of how to realize the customer project.

6. Modify the design or project deliverables to meet the specifications.

7. Learn how to use new software or programs.

8. As a member of a team, create a bigger design or complete a small part of a big project, such as perfecting a unique font.

9. Find other creative people for a specific project, such as photographers, writers or illustrators.

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Software needed for graphic design

First: Photoshop, a unique magic weapon for graphic designers, is a powerful image processing software. It is usually used in conjunction with graphic production software such as illustrator/Coreldraw, or it can be edited and produced independently. Its powerful color recognition and graphic processing functions are essential tools for every designer and the most important software in graphic design.

Second: CorelDRAW, professional vector drawing software, powerful vector drawing tools are widely used in logo design, powerful layout planning is used for typesetting and color separation output, and enhanced digital picture performance is mainly used in many fields such as model making and illustration drawing.

Thirdly, illustrator is an industrial standard Illustrator program for publishing, multimedia and online images. Powerful graphic creation function is favored by designers. Suitable for printing and publishing line draft, professional illustration, multimedia image production and web page production. Compared with the bitmap made by PS, the vector image can be infinitely scaled without distortion, and it keeps clear image quality under any circumstances, and has a good performance in LOGO, logo, special font, cover drawing and so on.

Compared with Illustrator, in many users' feedback, everyone still agrees that CDR is better, both in performance and operation. Both of them belong to vector drawing software, but CDR supports multi-page function, which is convenient for typesetting and has bar code making function.

Fourthly, Indesign, a design software located in the field of professional typesetting, can complete the design with rich visual effects and be applied to various media, including printing and online publishing. With Indesign, the processed characters, images and graphics can be arranged at will, which greatly improves the work efficiency of designers, and at the same time has some graphics drawing and image processing functions.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-graphic design