To help minimize the stress and maximize the fun! Although design can be a fun job with plenty of artistic freedom and rewarding interactions with clients, like all jobs, it comes with its headaches. In the digital age, almost all designing is done with computers — which makes the job easier, faster, and more efficient most of the time — but if you’re not a complete tech … [Read more...]
Free And Cheaper Options To Photoshop, Illustrator, And Other Adobe Creative Software
Freelance illustrator, artist, and author Michael Sexton has compiled a list of free and cheaper (single purchase) alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and Audition. Michael created the list after Adobe's recent price hike of its photography plan from $9.99 to $19.99. After an outcry from creatives, the price … [Read more...]
How To Create Facebook 3D Photos In Photoshop
If you have an iPhone, you can upload an image taken with Portrait mode and Facebook will convert it to a 3D photo. But what if you don't have an iPhone or Portrait mode? What if you want to create a 3D photo out of an old photo or a composite image? In that case, you can turn any image into a Facebook 3D photo by creating depth maps in Photoshop. Photoshop instructor … [Read more...]
32 Beautiful Color Palettes With Their Corresponding Gradient Palettes
Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Mr.Pugo is a handy Instagram account that shares beautiful color palettes (with hex codes) and also their corresponding gradient palettes. We’ve shortlisted some of the best ones in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, and current design trends. Check them out below and tell us your favourites in the … [Read more...]
21 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project
As a designer, no matter how many fonts you have on your system, you always want more. You might use just a fraction of those fonts on a regular basis, but you need to have a gorgeous collection in your repository at all times. And what's the one thing designers love more than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that's available for FREE! Today's post is a collection of 21 … [Read more...]
Jennifer Lopez’s Iconic Green Dress Inspired Google To Come Up With Image Search
Jennifer Lopez's green Versace dress at the 2000 Grammy Awards was one of the most iconic dresses in fashion history. It made Versace a household name, and led to Lopez becoming one of the most glamorous icons of the red carpet. After the event, images of Lopez in the green dress were downloaded 642,917 times in just 24 hours from the Grammy website. The dress even has its … [Read more...]
What Type Of Creative Personality Do You Have? Take This Quiz By Adobe And Find Out
Adobe Create Magazine has come up with an interesting new quiz titled Creative Types that tells you what kind of a creative personality you have. The test uses psychological research to asses your basic habits, and helps you better understand who you are as a creative. The results will also tell you how to maximize your natural gifts, and what kind of creative … [Read more...]
What Is The Golden Ratio, And How To Use It In Graphic Design
The Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Section or Divine Proportion, is a mathematical ratio of 1:1.618 based on the Fibonacci sequence. It can be found in nature (flower petals, seeds, shells), in food (artichokes, broccoli, pineapple), and in the human anatomy. The Golden Ratio can also be found in art (Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man) and architecture … [Read more...]
3 Designer Friends Created An Alphabet Series Using Logos They’ve Designed Over The Years
Three graphic designers, colleagues, and friends, Alex Tass, Dalius Stuoka, and Deividas Bielskis decided to put together an A-Z alphabet series made from logo symbols, lettermarks, and monograms they've created over the years. All three designers have been in the industry for over 10 years, and have worked with a variety of clients, brands, and agencies. For this project, … [Read more...]
31 Beautiful Gradient Logos For Design Inspiration
When Apple launched iOS 7 in 2014, it not only changed the face of UI design, but also branding, graphic and logo design. Skeuomorphic interfaces and glossy app icons were out. Flat design, vibrant colors and gradients were in. In 2016, when Instagram came up with a bright new look and multicolored logo, a vast majority of its users hated the vivid gradients and demanded the … [Read more...]
Need Images For Your Project? Create Your Own With This Useful Drag-And-Drop Tool
Design resource site Icons8 has come up with a handy web app called Mega Creator that lets you create realistic stock photos using drag-and-drop images of models, objects, and backgrounds. The app features over thousands of images with transparent backgrounds, so you can place one over the other and create your own composite in any size or aspect ratio. You can rotate, … [Read more...]
Adobe After Effects Has A Powerful Tool That Can Remove Any Object From Your Video
Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool in Photoshop that lets you remove unwanted objects from your photos. But what if you want to remove objects from a video? You'll need to edit each frame individually and then stitch them back together. Well, all that has changed now in the latest release of After Effects (16.1), which includes a powerful new Content-Aware Fill feature that … [Read more...]
43 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Awsmcolor is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. At the end of every month, they feature the top nine palettes for that month. If you create something exceptional using their palettes, you can get featured on their page as well. We've shortlisted … [Read more...]
9 Things You Should Never Say To A Designer
If you've been in the creative business for a few years, you've definitely had your share of funny/dumb comments made by clients who don't have a damn clue, or clients who wanted to freeload, or clients who wanted to micromanage the entire design process. In the interest of designers everywhere, Weekly Design Grind has compiled a list of nine things clients (and everyone … [Read more...]
How To Make Sure You Never Lose A File Again
Sync Your Design Files Now to Prevent Disaster Later You know that design file that you spent weeks pouring your heart and soul into? Wouldn’t it be a shame if it disappeared? Prevent this from happening by syncing your files now. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back in helping you with disaster recovery efforts if you’ve found yourself facing an L. In this article, we’ll … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Develops Incredible AI That Can Turn Rough Sketches Into Landscape Images
Researchers at NVIDIA have developed a deep learning model that can turn rough doodles into photorealistic landscapes using generative adversarial networks, or GANs. The interactive app has been named GauGAN, after the post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. The deep learning model has been trained on a million images. When you draw the shapes of the objects you want, the … [Read more...]
41 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Colours.cafe is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. They also hold design challenges in which users have to use a specific palette to create illustrations and calligraphy. The best works are then featured on their page. We've shortlisted some of … [Read more...]
Designer Who Created Iconic Movie Posters Shares The Secrets Behind Hollywood Poster Designs
James Verdesoto is an artist and creative director who has designed iconic posters for movies such as Pulp Fiction, Ocean's Eleven, Training Day, Girl, Interrupted, and more. In this video for Vanity Fair, Verdesoto explains the role of color psychology and trends in movie poster design. He discusses the use of certain colors and palettes in specific genres, with relevant … [Read more...]
10 Tips For Creating A Portfolio With WordPress
Are you a designer, photographer or other creatives? Then, you’ve definitely thought about how to make a lot of people get to know about what you do. Today, the Internet is one of the most effective ways to share information about you or the services you offer. Creating a portfolio web page you let people see your brand new works, the process of their creation, or check your … [Read more...]
How To Copy Colors From An Image And Apply Them On Another Image In Photoshop
Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with a brilliant tutorial that shows you how to extract colors from an image, and replicate them on any other image. Learn how to generate a color palette from an image, and apply that palette to another image using curves and gradient maps. Unmesh shares some useful tips and techniques to effectively match the … [Read more...]
Beautiful Color Palettes Of Countries From Around The World
Luxury travel specialists Sovereign have come up with a series of color palettes of 18 popular destinations from across the globe. The objective was to highlight the range of unique colorscapes that can be seen around the world. Each palette consists of 20 colors that were derived from iconic locations in that country. The palettes are a reflection of their culture, … [Read more...]
Only Expert Graphic Designers Can Reach The Platinum Level In This UI Design Quiz
Seattle-based UX designer Alex Kotliarskyi has come up with an interesting visual quiz that tests your UI knowledge and attention to details. Titled Can't Unsee, the web-based game presents two choices of iOS interface designs, and asks you to pick which one is correct. You earn coins for every correct answer. The game is divided into three rounds (easy, medium, hard) of … [Read more...]
28 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers
Are you in the middle of a tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your boss or client being a d*ck? Are you tired of creating "Buy Two, Get One Free" flyers and banners? If yes, then indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day. Scientific research has proven that memes help reduce work-related stress by stimulating the release of endorphins that trigger a sense of … [Read more...]
Free Photoshop Pack Of Beautiful Gradients For All Your Design Needs
Vibrant colors and gradients are one of the major trends in graphic, web, and UI design nowadays. To make life easier for designers everywhere, Paris-based graphic designer Leo Simon has compiled a set of 300 beautiful gradients into a Photoshop gradient file (GRD), available for free. We've shortlisted some of our favourites from Leo's collection and shared them below with … [Read more...]
How To Turn White Into Any Color In Photoshop
You can change the color of any object in Photoshop by creating a hue/saturation adjustment layer, and using the sliders and the eyedropper tool (here's a one-minute tutorial on the same). However, when the object is white, a hue/saturation adjustment layer doesn't convert it realistically no matter how high you turn up the saturation. In this handy tutorial, Photoshop … [Read more...]
What Logo Styles Do Consumers Trust Most?
SurveyMonkey and infographic maker Venngage surveyed over 1000 adults living in the U.S. on what logo styles they trusted the most. The respondents were shown a series of logos for imaginary companies in six different industries: Jewellery retail, education, financial services, law firm, news/media, and technology. Six variations of each logo were presented: Icon dominant, … [Read more...]
This Free Online Tool Resizes Any Image To Over 50 Sizes In Just One Click
The team at video editing app Promo has come up with a useful online tool that resizes any image to over 50 web and social media sizes with the click of a button. Simply upload your image or enter its url, and the app gives you a preview of what your image will look like across different formats like profile photos, cover photos, stories, newsfeed images, ads, email headers, … [Read more...]
Photoshop Project Imagines What Late Celebrities Might Have Looked Like In Old Age
Retirement welfare website Great Senior Living has come up with an intriguing Photoshop project titled "Gone But Not Forgotten" that imagines what late celebrities might have looked like in their golden years. The list includes Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Selena. GSL asked graphic designers … [Read more...]
Shit Clients Say – 13 Most Unforgettable Quotes
How many times have you had a client send a list of "final" changes AFTER they've approved the design? What about when they ask you to find an image from Google, or copy someone else's logo, or when they tell you to deliver designs by Monday after briefing on Friday? We all come across unreasonable client demands on a daily basis, but the folks at BeeWits have a dedicated … [Read more...]
Japanese Artist Turns Product Packaging Into Amazing Artworks
Japanese artist Haruki transforms packaging of everyday items like Pringles chips, Oreo cookies, Nestle milk, etc. into amazing paper sculptures and artworks. He uses a technique known as kirigami, a variation of origami, which involves cutting and folding paper to create intricate designs. Kirigami is usually associated with traditional Japanese art, but Haruki applies the … [Read more...]
I Hired 3 Cheap Freelance Designers To Retouch My Photo, Here Are The Results
Irene Rudnyk is a professional photographer from Calgary, Canada, who shares photography and Photoshop tutorials on her YouTube channel. Recently, she decided to conduct a little experiment using the popular online marketplace Fiverr that lets you buy and sell services for $5. The objective was to check the value and credibility of cheap freelance retouchers, since most of … [Read more...]
This Brilliant Free Tool Can Remove The Background From Your Photo In Five Seconds
AI photo filter maker Kaleido has come up with a powerful online tool called Remove.bg that erases the background from any image in five seconds or less, and gives you a transparent PNG of the person/people in the image. It works 100% automatically, you don't have to mark the person or select the background and foreground layers manually. Just upload your image or enter its … [Read more...]
Designer Creates Clever Negative Space Logos That Visualize The Name Of The Company
Lithuania-based graphic designer Leo has come up with a series of clever logos that combine the name or initials of the company into one unique symbol using negative space. The logo in each case visually represents the name of the company. For example, the logo for Secret Chat is a pair of lips with a padlock in the negative space between the lips. The logo for Wine Rocket … [Read more...]
Learn In One Minute How To Wrap Text Around Any Image In Photoshop
How do you wrap text around images in Photoshop? Do you manually adjust the length of each line? In this one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you a simple technique to wrap text around any object, image, or shape, using a custom path created with the Pen tool. With this technique, you don't have to manually adjust the length of … [Read more...]
Simple, Useful Design Tips For UI/UX Designers
'Sparklin Design Tips' is a series of short, useful UI/UX tips by New Delhi-based digital agency Sparklin, shared every Tuesday on their social media channels. Using before-and-after mockup images, the team at Sparklin explains good UI/UX practices with visual examples, making them easy to understand and comprehend. Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned designer, these tips … [Read more...]
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