Wiki So Far

Today I contributed to the wiki on the Graphic Design page. I made edits to the section on softwares for graphic design. I study Graphic Communications so I thought I would be able to make a decent contribution to this page. The original entry listed "popular softwares for graphic design", two I was not familiar with. I followed the reference link on that section to an article featuring the best free graphic design softwares. I changed the title of that entry to "Free Softwares" and created a new section for "Adobe Softwares" which are the standard softwares for graphic designers. I'm attaching some screenshots of my edits.





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