Graphics & Digital Editing Software

If you are a web designer you already know how important it is to have a graphics design tool as part of your skill set. From creating header graphics for pages to creating special effects with photos, mastering graphics and digital editing software is an essential skill.

There are a few different graphics and digital editing software tools that I use everyday: Corel Paintshop Pro is one that I use for just about everything related to web development, and Graphics Creator is a specialized tool that I use for developing logos and fancy buttons.

Paint Shop Pro - I've used Paint Shop Pro since it appeared many years ago as freeware and I've watched it grow into the powerhouse tool that it is today. As far as building and optimizing graphics for web development projects, no other tool has served me so well over the years. You can easily create stunning graphics with some built-in filters, resize, crop, rotate, and precisely cut out objects and paste them into other graphics.

Web Graphics Creator - Many of my clients need an inexpensive way to easily create graphics without having to suffer through years of a learning curve and I send them to the Web Graphics Creator to introduce what a graphics program can do. The Web Graphics Creator is an ideal graphics tool for building customized logos from hundreds of built-in templates. You can build something spectacular in minutes with the Web Graphics Creator.

Adobe Photoshop - Photoshop is the premier tool designed for much more than just building graphics for the web. But, along with a steep price, there is a steep learning curve.