Which software is better to do for becoming a graphic designer or DTP operator?

I have heard a saying before many years! "Good knowledge of software can make a good artist, a great artist". After incarnation of digital media applications, entire print media and graphic design has been revolutionized. One can’t achieve perfect look, complete accuracy and attractive approach in the artwork without the computers. In current industry, there is some of the best software, offering stunning designing features for a graphic designer, as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and CorelDraw also. If you are new for this field, then naturally, you might be in dilemma in selecting right computer application for the right job. So, which software is better to do? Let me explain, Adobe is a biggest software development company for print industry, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker (adobe has discontinued it), Acrobat Reader/ Professional, PDL, and ATM/OTF fonts also. So, if someone is going with adobe's application, then his/her future will be bright. So, don't hesitate in doing Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, this is a perfect combination for any graphic designer. One can comfortably edit any image with the help of Photoshop; can make illustrations, logos, posters or any kind of lay outing in Illustrator, and newspaper, magazines, and newsletter etc in InDesign. These all applications are widely used in European countries, USA, France, England, and Germany etc. Why, CorelDraw? We cannot ignore importance of the CorelDraw; it’s a Corel company product. This company is providing so many applications (photo paint, trace, capture etc), but unfortunately Corel is only being used by the graphic designers. In Asian countries, this program has very strong approach, especially in low and mid level companies. Why, QuarkXPress? From the time of Adobe InDesign in market, the future of QuarkXPress is doubtful. Every graphic designer has following kind of questions in the mind: In QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign, which is better? Future belongs to QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign? Which program provides most advanced pagination options? Which program I should use, Quark or InDesign? First I would like to introduce with both applications: QuarkXPress is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them. The most recent version is QuarkXPress 8 and it allows publishing in English ("International and U.S.") and 36 other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application produced by Adobe Systems which can be used to create things such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. InDesign is the successor and alternative to Adobe's own PageMaker, which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994. By 1998 PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead worked on a project built independently of PageMaker, code-named "K2", and released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999. InDesign is a direct competitor to QuarkXPress. InDesign is very-very advanced pagination option instead of QuarkXPress. I would suggest working with future software that's the InDesign. There are so many professional training colleges for the graphic designing and print related diplomas. Want to start now, go and start your search now.