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 opportunity to work with … [Read more...]
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 each anchor point … [Read more...]
Adobe ‘Fast Mask’ Lets You Quickly Select And Mask Any Moving Object In A Video
In After Effects, if you want to add text or an effect behind an object in a video, you can use the Roto Brush to select the object, and then apply a mask. However, the current Roto Brush is not a very intuitive tool and in most cases the mask breaks after the first frame, specially if the object is fast-moving (like a dancer or a person running). You can spend hours manually … [Read more...]
Short, Useful Animations To Help You Create Icons Easily In Adobe Illustrator
Melbourne-based designer and entrepreneur Marc Edwards has come up with a series of speedrun videos that show you simple techniques to create vector icons in Adobe Illustrator. Each video lasts only a few seconds and takes you through an optimal (and sometimes surprising) method to create common UI icons like bluetooth, headphones, inbox, settings, hourglass, lightning … [Read more...]
Adobe ‘Moving Stills’ Turns Static Images Into 3D Animated Photos And Videos
When you're browsing through old photos do you sometimes wish you could view a video or a 3D animation of the same scene? Although companies like Apple and Samsung let you capture Live Photos or Motion Photos with their mobile devices, those are just flat video recordings taken a few seconds before you click a picture. The images don’t really give you a 3D perspective – … [Read more...]
This Brilliant Free Tool Tests Your Logo For Balance, Scalability, Color Blindness, And More
Kentucky-based designer Brandon Shepherd from Studio Bros. has come up with a useful online tool called Logo Lab that assesses your logo on 10 key factors like balance, scalability, color blindness, recognizability, etc. All you have to do is upload your logo in PNG or SVG format, and the app will display what your logo looks like under each parameter. You can then evaluate … [Read more...]
Adobe Fontphoria Can Capture Text In Images And Convert Them To Fonts
How many times have you wanted to know the name of a font used in a particular design or artwork? In some cases, the letters have been hand-drawn and the font doesn't actually exist. But imagine if there was a technology that could scan the text in an image and create an entire font out of it. Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called Fontphoria – a glyph … [Read more...]
10 Great Fonts You Should Use, And 9 Awful Fonts You Should Avoid
"Typography is an art. Good typography is art." - Paul Rand. Font and typography choices can make or break your design. But with so many fonts to choose from nowadays, which ones should you use, and which ones should you avoid? Tom Cargill from Satori Graphics has come up with an excellent video that features ten prominent fonts used by professional designers, along with … [Read more...]
Incredible Video Shows Artificial Intelligence Creating A Website Just By Looking At The Wireframe
Artificial Intelligence is now being used to create front-end designs from wireframe to HTML code. TeleportHQ, a platform of open-source tools for UI professionals, has released a video demonstrating real-time code generation using TensorFlow machine learning and computer vision image recognition. … [Read more...]
This Hidden Tool In Photoshop Lets You Remove Backgrounds With Ease
Did you know that there is an actual tool in Photoshop that allows you to erase backgrounds from your photos? We're not talking about any selections or masks, we're talking about the Background Eraser Tool located under the Eraser Tool in the Photoshop Toolbar. You'll be surprised to see how powerful, customizable, and easy-to-use this tool can be. In this brilliant … [Read more...]
Photoshop’s New, More Powerful ‘Content-Aware Fill’ Can Realistically Remove Any Object From Your Photos
Adobe Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool to remove unwanted objects from your photos, but sometimes the results can fall short and there are no options to customize the results. Well, all that has changed in the latest version of Photoshop CC (20.0). Content-Aware Fill has received a powerful new upgrade that gives the tool its own workspace and additional … [Read more...]
This Handy New Tool Shows You Color Palettes Of Artworks From Different Eras
Kentucky-based graphic designer Brandon Shepherd has released a handy online tool called Color Leap that showcases a collection of color palettes used in paintings and artworks throughout different eras in history - from ancient Egypt to the 1960s. The tool consists of 180 palettes spread over 12 different time periods. You can select any time period, browse through … [Read more...]
This Brilliant Free Tool Is Like Google Search For Colors
Swedish digital studio Future Memories has launched an excellent tool called Picular that lets you search for colors by keyword and displays a range of colors based on the top 20 Google Image search results for that keyword. For example, if you search for ‘ocean’, Picular analyzes the top 20 Google Images for ‘ocean’ and displays the most prominent color in each image and … [Read more...]
Learn In One Minute How To Change The Color Of Anything In Photoshop
Did you know that you can use the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer in Photoshop to target a specific color in your image and change it to any color you want? In this handy one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you a simple technique to change the color of any object in your image by using the hand tool in the Hue/Saturation Adjustment … [Read more...]
Learn In One Minute How To Make Skies Gorgeously Dramatic In Photoshop
Did you know that you can use Adjustment layers and the Blend If mode in Photoshop to enhance skies and make them look more dramatic in your photos? In this one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you a simple technique to add details and definition to clouds by using Adjustment Layer, Mask, Brush Tool, and Blend If: Underlying Layer. … [Read more...]
This Clever Photoshop Trick Lets You Add Realistic Light Or Shine To Any Object
Did you know that you can add realistic-looking lights and shine to images of lamps and jewellery by using the magic of blend modes in Photoshop? In this tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda shows you how to use color dodge and layer styles to mimic the properties of light and shine. He takes you through five different image examples and shares two different methods … [Read more...]
19 Graphic Design Mistakes That Novice Designers Make
After a few years in the graphic design business, you realize how important it is to get the basics right. Like using proper font and color combinations, implementing visual hierarchy, using grids, alignment, white space, and so on. The team at Visme, an online tool for creating infographics and presentations, has come up with an excellent visual list of 19 graphic design … [Read more...]
This Simple Chart Explains What Common Terms In A Logo Design Brief Mean
What do clients mean when they say their logo needs to be modern, luxurious, or subtle? Dubai-based logo designer Jefferson Pascual has created a handy infographic that uses an illustration of a bird to explain common terms used in logo design briefs. The chart features bird logos designed in different styles (eg. young, modern, feminine) with their visual opposites on the … [Read more...]
This Clever Photoshop Trick Lets You Generate Unlimited Filters With Just One Click
Did you know that the Gradient Editor in Photoshop has a 'Randomize' feature that lets you browse through unlimited gradients which you can use as filters on your photos? In this tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda shows you how to combine the concepts of Gradient Fill, Gradient Maps, and Blend Modes to create beautiful color combinations and filters automatically in … [Read more...]
Fix And Sharpen A Blurry Photo With This Clever Photoshop Technique
Most cameras nowadays have 'image stabilization' or 'anti-shake' features to reduce the likelihood of taking blurry photos. It works by moving the camera lens automatically to compensate for handheld movements. But once in a while, you do end up with a great capture that's slightly blurred and you don't really want to delete that image. What do you do then? Mumbai-based … [Read more...]
10 Best Uses Of Color In Movies
Right from the first scene, color sets the mood and tone of a film before any of the actors have uttered a word. Since the dawn of colored cinema, filmmakers have used color to convey drama and emotion in storytelling. Visual-minded directors and cinematographers have created color palettes almost as memorable as the films themselves. The Wachowskis used a green color … [Read more...]
8 Beautiful Flat Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
UI/UX designer Ebtihaj Khan has created a series of minimalist flat color palettes for graphic, web, and UI projects. Each palette consists of five colors with their hex codes mentioned alongside. Khan has included both linear and contrasting color schemes. The beautiful presentation of these palettes, with the blurred vignette effect in the background, was inspired by … [Read more...]
How To Rotate Or Straighten A Tilted Image In Photoshop Without Cropping The Edges
Usually, when you try to rotate or straighten a tilted image in Photoshop, you end up cropping and losing a bit of the corners and edges. Well, not anymore. Mumbai-based Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda has come up with an excellent tutorial that shows you how to straighten an image in Photoshop without cutting out the edges. He shows you how to use the straighten and … [Read more...]
Photoshop’s Patch Tool Does More Than You Think, Watch Here
Mumbai-based Photoshop educator and commercial retoucher Unmesh Dinda has come up with a handy tutorial that offers an in-depth look at the Patch Tool in Photoshop. Apart from the basic functions of the tool, Unmesh shares some interesting tips and techniques that can be of great help when working with images. Watch below. … [Read more...]
How To Pair Fonts That Complement Each Other (With Examples)
Good font pairing is one of the key differentiators between amateur and professional design. Rookie designers often use more fonts than required and there is lack of typographical contrast in their design. It's tricky because there are no fixed rules as to what kind of fonts work well together, but there are certain guidelines that can help you pick fonts that complement each … [Read more...]
Designer Fixes Ugly Interfaces, Shares Valuable UI Tips In The Process
Previously, we featured designer Steve Schoger's Little UI Details project in which he shares short, useful design tips for UI/UX designers. Steve has now come up with another excellent project titled 'Refactoring UI' in which he uses Sketch to fix websites and interfaces submitted by developers, and teaches you valuable UI design concepts in the process. The series is just … [Read more...]
How To Blend Images Seamlessly And Create A Perfect Composite In Photoshop
One of the most skillful tasks in Photoshop is to blend objects from multiple images that have different colors, tones, and lighting, into one single image and make it look perfect. This is one of the key differentiators between the work of a professional designer and an amateur. Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with a brilliant tutorial that … [Read more...]
23 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project
What does a graphic designer love more than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that's available for FREE. There's nothing more heartbreaking than finding a gorgeous font, only to see a big red button next to it that says, "Buy Now for $99". To make life easier for our kind, we at DS have compiled a list of 23 stylish and contemporary fonts that you can download for free. The … [Read more...]
This Hidden Feature In Photoshop Lets You Convert Low-Res Images To High-Res
There are times when we as designers have no choice but to work with low-resolution images. Perhaps an asset from a client is too small, or we need to scale something up to fit a larger layout. The usual result is exactly what we expect: loss of sharpness, visible artifacts, and an overall drop in quality that no amount of clever retouching can fully fix. Photoshop … [Read more...]
6 Important Logo Design Principles Every Designer Should Know
Before you start a logo design project, you need to know who the logo is for? Who is the target audience? The logo will define what the business is all about. Should it be masculine or feminine, traditional or modern, exclusive or inclusive? The colors, typography, and geometry of the symbol will depend on all these factors. DesignMantic has come up with a handy infographic … [Read more...]
Fonts Used In Famous Logos (With Download Links)
Ever wanted to know the names of the fonts used in the logos of famous brands like Adidas, Calvin Klein, FedEx, Gillette, Jaguar, Lufthansa, Omega, Rolls-Royce, Visa, etc.? We've compiled an alphabetical list of 60 well-known logos with their corresponding fonts and download links. In some cases, the fonts have been tweaked or edited from their original form to create a … [Read more...]
How Companies Use Deceptive UI Design To Trick You Online
A 'dark pattern' is a user interface that has been craftily designed to trick users into doing things they might not want to do, in order to benefit the business in question. The term was coined by UK-based UI designer Harry Brignull, who runs DarkPatterns.org - a website dedicated to "naming and shaming websites that use deceptive user interfaces". For example, have you … [Read more...]
20 Important Design Principles Explained With Simple Illustrations
There are no fixed rules or formulas for good design, but there are a few basic principles that will help you create design that is effective, functional, and aesthetically pleasing. Technical jargon can sometimes get confusing or overwhelming, which is why Canva has come up with a fantastic infographic that uses simple illustrations to explain the 20 most important design … [Read more...]
This Clever Photoshop Trick Lets You Stretch Backgrounds Without Distorting Your Subject
The Content-Aware Scale tool under the Edit menu in Photoshop lets you stretch or scale an image seamlessly by filling the selection with surrounding pixels and blending them together. However the tool has a stretch limit, beyond which, the subject of the image starts getting distorted. In this short tutorial, Mumbai-based Photoshop expert Unmesh Dinda shares a few useful … [Read more...]
5 Crucial Steps To Make A Consistent And Professional Brand Identity
Businesses across the world enthusiastically adopt branding strategies to lure quality business from customers. In most cases, they achieve the initial phase of branding, the implementation stage, without any issues. But when it comes to the advanced stages and constant updation, they miss out due to a variety of reasons. It becomes an issue of consistency of branding as … [Read more...]
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