today I've got a real treat people because I'm gonna show you a list of the
best free design software choices for 2020 I'm also gonna show you what makes
them so awesome apart from the fact that they are completely free - the first of
the three truly awesome and free design software examples is a blender glenda is
used for working with 3d designs and actually has found its way into the
hearts of many indie game developers and hobbyists so one of the best elements of
blender is the modeling tools blender is known to have a very intuitive and an
easy-to-understand a modeling workflow now if you're getting into 3d
applications strictly for asset creation then blend that can be a great option
but of course has got many capabilities that you would expect any 3d application
to have such as rigging texturing animation and so forth it also has a
built in a game engine and do remember this is totally for free blender also
has a huge community of enthusiasts and the game developers so there is always a
lot of support there if you do need it but no seriously blender is completely
free there are no hang-ups at all there are no scams or hidden agendas and in
that sense it is pretty unique because in spite of being free to the end user
it is a viable alternative to any paid software that you can find for 3d work
the creators do earn money from donations and other means but for you as
a user it is totally free if you want it to be a blender does have one thing over
most 3d applications and that is it covers the full workflow from concept to
final output and it does each step extremely extremely well I am self
teaching blend at the moment and I think it's a great stepping stone to other
paid programs if you want to take the knee sector of 3d design or animation
really really seriously but you can do wonderful things with this free software
and there are just a few downsides and one of them is the learning curve
because it is quite a difficult software to grasp early on but that's like with
pretty much anything new in life also the menus are a tad cluttered to
many users but these two points are pretty insignificant especially
considering it's a free program to use also on screen right now are some of the
requirements for running the software and that's the essential to the
recommended requirements so next on this list is a free arrival to Adobe
Illustrator and as you know a doob illustrator is really close to my heart
Inkscape is a great free program for creating vectors and as you may know a
vector is a scalable graphic that doesn't lose inequality now Inkscape is
so good in fact that it's a serious alternative to premium tools like Adobe
Illustrator and I personally prefer to use illustrator of course but you could
certainly sing scape for most of your vector design work pretty easily with
Inkscape you can work with SVG files but also imports in the EPS PostScript JPEG
as well as exporting PNG and other vector based formats you can find many
of the tools that you'd expect to find in Illustrator such as shape tools text
layers nodes complex paths gradients and so on the open source code of the
software lets you manually change the lines of code to improve the program and
to customize it in the ways that you want to use it Inkscape will be the best
choice for beginners or hobbyists but it's not going to be suitable for
experienced users most of the time if someone is earning a nice you know
monthly income they probably would best off just be spending that on an
illustrator subscription some tools still require improvement in Inkscape
and the user interface isn't that too friendly in some respects but you can
customize things to a large degree which does help with that issue also there are
various extensions available which means you can take the software to new highs
one issue though is that the processing can be slow and this is something that
you do want to consider if you're working on large projects on a frequent
basis Inkscape doesn't offer any pricing plans
for businesses as it is an open source program and you can download it for free
on Windows Mac or Linux answer the third free software for 20/20 is really
awesome and that is a gimp which is short for a GNU image manipulation
program it's an excellent free alternative to photoshop that more than
just simply provides a good alternative and don't you think the lack of having a
price tag means GIMP is lacking your features it has a lot of things going
for it and it does put a good fight up against Photoshop especially considering
it's free side by side of course Photoshop is the
better one but not by a huge margin GIMP comes with impressive selections of
montage features various ways to retouch images cropping noise reduction and
color adjustment tools you also have customizable brushes and gradients and
so much much more there's also plenty for the more advanced users including
layer masks busier curves filters and even animation packages the interface is
highly customizable and the game community has produced a ton of
excellent plugins that are all free to download too and the program is loaded
with tutorials and plenty of assistance to be found in the active helpful
community so like with the others on today's list it's also an open source
program and there is an offshoot called GIMP shop which features a user
interface that mimics the appearance and terminology of Photoshop which is
something to look into GIMP can do more than most hobbyist
would ever need the Photoshop can still go the extra mile and do more there is a
perception that open source is always distributed with spyware or susceptible
to crashes and data losses and this can turn some users off whether that
perception is valid or nots will contribute to you are deciding if this
tool is for you or not but again it is free of you to download and you do pay
nothing to get a whole lot but if you want to watch more videos about getting
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until next time design your future today