What is the name of the professional design softwear package for graphic and fashion students?

I want to buy a relation softwear that they were advised to get by their college for fashion design. A few years ago it was really, really expensive but has come down in price now. Is it photoshop, or something similar? help would be appreciated, or further recommendation.

What is the name of the professional design softwear package for graphic and fashion students?
Software fashion means "everybody's doing it!" - which in turn means "you're mad if you're not doing it too." A direct consequence (which can also recursively feed back into the hype and overselling) is the inappropriate use of a new product or technology: like using Black %26amp; Decker's amazing new UltraHammer to fit a light bulb, or like a fat girl in a crop top.


In the software world, some examples of inappropriate usage are: EJB for a small ecommerce app; extreme programming for a short-term project with stable requirements; Struts for a web project where plain old JSP + JavaBeans would do the job handsomely; taglibs where adding a new meta-language rewards the team with nothing but confusion; or Model 2, design pattern mania where someone on the team has read GOF and hence decided to shoehorn as many design patterns as possible into their design.


Design pattern usage is often seen as an end in itself. Robin (intrepid co-author of this article) was once asked during a job interview: "What's your favourite design pattern?" What's the correct response to that? "Oh, Decorator every time! Yeah, I use it for everything!"


Web services technology also gets more than its fair share of misuse. Web services are great, if that's really what you need. The problem arises when people use web services "just because", or apply web services inappropriately, like using SOAP as an internal messaging bus.


When hype overtakes a person's ability to appraise a technology objectively, then of course it's going to start to be used for the wrong things.