Figma is a potent tool for teams and individuals who want to explore ideas, get feedback, build prototypes, and streamline the development of standardized assets within corporate design systems.

Whether you're a professional designer or just want to create beautiful digital art, these are the best graphic design apps we've tested.

The free Adobe Fresco is a splendid painting, sketching, and watercolor app that makes creating vector or pixel-based art feel almost natural.

CorelDraw is a capable graphic design and production app with unique tools and team collaboration for people of all skill levels.

If you're searching for a professional-grade vector graphics editor that’s gentle on your purse strings, Affinity Designer 2 is an excellent choice.

Geared for non-designers, Adobe Express is a capable and welcoming template-based tool for creating attractive online content quickly.

Procreate is a premium quality, low-cost iPad app for artists of every kind. Anyone can use it to create 2D artwork, paint on 3D models, animate, and more.

Adobe Illustrator is the best vector-graphics editing program and it continues to please with the text-to-vector AI integration, the ability to edit static text, and a mockup module that lets you apply vector graphics to a 2D raster object.

Canva offers an eye-popping variety of graphic categories that lets you move ideas from your imagination to the screen no matter your skill level.

Microsoft Designer has all the tools a nonprofessional designer needs to create pleasing graphics for social media and more.

All users of the art platform are able to sample DreamUp with up to five free prompts.

Adobe also announces new collaboration and AI selection tools as well as updates to Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro.

Blender is free and open-source 3D animation software with a strong set of modeling tools. For artists entering the world of 3D animation, Blender provides unrivaled access to tools and concepts you need to learn.

Cinema 4D empowers artists to create in 3D and it's easier to learn than many other packages. Modeling and some types of dynamic simulation have seen significant improvements, but other areas still feel left behind, including pricing options.

We asked a professional designer what's on her wish list. Check out these fantastic gift ideas for the artist in your life, from high-end drawing tablets to stylus replacement tips that simulate the feel of drawing on paper.

Adobe XD wins the UI/UX design tool tussle not only because of the boost it gets from integration with Creative Cloud apps, but also because of its responsive design tools.

Illustrator on the iPad is another star in Adobe’s growing constellation of tablet-only and reimagined desktop-to-iPad apps.

The leading design software company unveiled a dizzying array of updates to its creative cloud suite, as well as a tool to combat deepfakes.

A year after its initial announcement, the virtual paint, pencil, and watercolor app is available for use with Apple's Pencil and iPad.

An intuitive interface and easy collaboration features make this screen design tool a top contender for your web and app creation toolbox.