I am very passionate about graphic design and, more importantly, very accessible graphic design. Since I was pretty busy with technical classes in college, I didn't really have much of an avenue for pursuing this passion, so I opted to join extracurriculars at school that would allow me to continue designing. Even though I really liked drawing and design, I did not have access to the high-end expensive design suites that regular graphic designers have. Thus, I became very good at scouting out various softwares, websites, etc. to fulfil my needs.

This post is just a master list of all of those resources I've used. I hope they are useful to you and show you that you don't necessarily need high-end industry standard software and tools to make something good!

• Photopea: a good free browser-based alternative to Photoshop. Has most of the things that you would need from Photoshop.
• Cobalt: free tool for downloading video/audio/photos/gifs from websites.
• Delphi: free design suite for color palette generation, cropping, watermarking, creating gradients, generating QR codes, removing image backgrounds, etc.
• Colorblindly (web extension): Chrome extension for testing how 8 different kinds of colorblindness would look like when viewing a specific site.
• ColorPick Eyedropper (web extension): Chrome extension for being able to pick a color from the current viewed webpage.

Happy designing!