CorelDRAW (short for CDR) is commonly used.
In addition, Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Illustrator and Indign can also be used. As for which one to use, it can only be said that it is according to everyone's habits.
Comparatively speaking, CDR is still used more. General pictures are processed by PS and imported into CDR for typesetting design. CDR and AI are used for modeling and typesetting.
You need to use PS for the effect, or you can directly use PS as the cover. It's not bad to do it together. The most commonly used software for magazine cover design is as follows:
1, adobeindesign At present, the most commonly used and professional typesetting software in the world is adobe indesign, which has powerful production functions of electronic publishing and network publishing, and can produce satisfactory paper publications, electronic publications and so on. As an excellent graphic and image editing and typesetting software, indesign can not only produce professional-grade full-color effects, but also output files to pdf, html and other file formats, making it a leader in the field of cross-media publishing. Adobeindesign is the best choice for multi-page efficient typesetting design. Generally, beautiful magazines, books and picture albums are designed and typeset by adobeindesign. Excellent performance, easy to use, what you see is what you get, and it is very convenient to generate pdf files and export various picture files. Because the function of indesign is very powerful, it is difficult to master it completely, but for people with photoshop foundation, learning indesign is a very simple thing.
2.coreldrawcorel Company's coreldraw is an excellent vector graphic design software, which is also widely used in typesetting. Coreldraw is widely used in China publishing industry because of its quick start.
3. There is also a very simple publisher of Microsoft, which is a sub-office software of office. For friends who often use word, publisher is easy to learn because the interface is very similar. This software can basically meet the general typesetting needs, and simple magazines can still be typeset.
4. Other typesetting software, such as framemaker of adobe Company, Tengfei typesetting software of Founder Company in China and so on.
5. If you need to organize magazines with more pictures, it is suggested to use indesign or coreldraw to organize them, because these two softwares are very capable of editing pictures. PS does image processing. Cdr does text typesetting