Top 6 Free Graphic Design Software Tools For Small Business
There is no doubting that one of the most expensive pieces of software on the market is image manipulation and graphic design software. While this outlay is usually justified for a graphic design or web company, there are plenty of small companies who want to do small graphic design and image manipulation tasks, but simply cannot justify the financial outlay for what will be occasional usage, and who find that the windows based free editor, Paint, to not be sophisticated enough. In these circumstances, you would be advised to use some of the great and totally free graphic design and image manipulation tools that are available on the market and I have outlined 5 of the best design software tools here.
1Paint.net This is a completely free graphic design and software tool which is an excellent alternative to windows paint or Adobe Photoshop. You can do photo editing, image manipulation and graphic design. It’s very easy to use. It includes special effects.
2.SumoPaint . This is another totally free on-line image editor. This works through a browser, and you will need Adobe Flash Player to use it. Once again, this is very easy to use and includes all the basic image manipulation tools like brushes, pencils, gradients etc. You’ll be able to prepare business cards and other marketing/branding collateral in no time.
3.Vizualize. Now, this is a completely free infographic resume generator which is clearly aimed at job seekers. There is no reason that businesses can’t use this tool to develop their own infographic resumes for key staff for use in marketing collateral and sales pitches.
4.Prezi. We all know that the Microsoft office suit can be expensive, so if you need to prepare a presentation but don’t have powerpoint, try Prezi. This is a completely free, on-line presentation creation tool. You can include images, video, objects and text and you can animate the content with a broad range of effects.
We are moving into the slightly more specialist end of the marketplace in terms of graphic design tools and most small businesses won’t typically use these tools listed below, but I thought I would include them to outline some of the variety in the marketplace.
5.Daz Studio. This is a great and free 3D graphic design tool which enables you to do 3D figure customization, posing and animation.
6.SVG-Edit. This is a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator that enables you to produce vector based graphics in SVG format, and is an excellent illustration tool.
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