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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
“Miss The Start, Miss The Story” – Clever Ads By Sky TV Promote Its Restart Movie Feature
Most people in Germany watch linear TV instead of on-demand TV, because they don't like to spend too much time choosing what movie to watch. They tend to just turn on the television and watch what's running. Sky offers movies on-demand, and also on linear channels. The restart function from Sky Q let's you watch movies on linear TV from the start, by … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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, … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
Legendary Painters ‘Deliver’ Their Paintings In Brilliant Ads For Art Transport Company
Welti-Furrer is a leading Swiss company for fine art transports. Their experts transport valuable art with the utmost care. To communicate their services to museums, galleries, curators, and art collectors, agency Ruf Lanz (Zurich) came up with a brilliantly art-directed campaign featuring four legendary painters: Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Andy … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
Motherboards Look Like Agricultural Fields In Brilliant Ads For Volkswagen’s Tech-Savvy Trucks
Volkswagen Argentina wanted to promote its Amarok V6 4x4 pickup truck to young, tech-savvy agricultural workers who work in crop fields and rely on technology to get the job done. The Amarok has 4x4 capabilities but also comes loaded with technology that these "rural millennials" will appreciate. Agency Geometry Argentina came up with a brilliant print … View Post ▸
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 … View Post ▸
What Logos Of Famous Painters Would Look Like
Brazilian art director Milton Omena has come up with an interesting project that imagines what logos of famous painters from Renaissance, Impressionist, and Modern Art periods would look like. He studied the painting styles and personalities of legendary artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and created a unique symbol for each one … View Post ▸
How to Refresh Your Visual Design Process for the New Year
5 Simple Strategies to Help You Finish the Year Strong, and Get Next Year Off to a Great Start Many creative professionals-- from artists and designers to visual communications and advertising specialists-- chose their career because it’s something they are really passionate about. Unfortunately, no amount of passion will keep you from falling into … View Post ▸
These Hand-Sanitiser Ads Featuring Famous Celebrities Are Hilarious
You never know where people's hands have been, which is why you should always use a hand sanitiser. Based on this insight, Miami Ad School in Rio de Janeiro came up with a hilarious print campaign for Purell Hand Sanitisers that features photos of famous celebrities placed sequentially to get the point across. Check out the campaign below. … View Post ▸
How To Stretch Images With Complex Backgrounds Like Trees And Buildings In Photoshop
When you're designing a website or managing a social media page, sometimes you need a wide format image for your Facebook cover, Instagram post, or website hero image. But what if the image you like has a portrait orientation or isn't as wide as you want? A couple of posts ago, we featured a handy tutorial that showed you how to trick the Content-Aware … View Post ▸
Designer Uses Beautiful Gradients And Abstract Shapes To Describe Meanings Of Words
UK-based graphic designer Evgeniya Righini-Brand has come up with a fascinating project titled “Gradient Studies” in which she uses vibrant gradients and abstract shapes to visually describe the meanings of various words. For example, the visual for the word "flow" is an abstract liquid shape with multiple gradient meshes in blue and white. The visual for … View Post ▸
5 File Sharing Tips To Keep Your Group And Project Organized
Tackling a large project as a group has never been easier with online file sharing communities, but don’t let the convenience derail your organization By Rachel Lombardo Taking on a group project - whether it be for work, school, or a local organization you are part of - can be one of the more rewarding tasks you will work on. You’ll have the … View Post ▸
Adobe ‘Good Bones’ Lets You Change Vector Shapes Easily By Adding A Skeleton Structure
When you create artwork in Adobe Illustrator, the underlying geometry of the vector graphics can be quite complex. If you need to change the appearance of your vector figure, you'll need to edit each anchor point individually, which can be quite a task. For example, if you want to open the mouth of a vector dinosaur that you've created, you'll need to tweak … View Post ▸
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