Want to confine your artwork to specific shapes? Affinity Designer’s clipping feature lets you do just that. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to clip layers, transforming any object into a stencil that defines the visible area of the layer below. What Is Layer Clipping? Imagine using a cookie cutter on your design. Clipping lets… Continue reading How to Clip Layers in Affinity Designer
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How to Make a Car Wash Flyer
Learn how to make a car wash flyer in this Affinity Publisher tutorial. You can adapt this template to make flyers for car wash, detailing, and other business ventures. We’ll also take a look at some car wash flyers for inspiration. What You’ll Learn How to create a car wash flyer in Affinity Publisher … Continue reading How to Make a Car Wash Flyer
Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)
In this tutorial we’re going to take a bunch of ordinary thumbnail links and turn them into a responsive CSS grid gallery with a blurred hover effect. We’ll also use a great CSS trick to make sure touch screen users don’t miss out! Here’s what we’ll be creating: A Little Background Recently, Rachel McCollin wrote a… Continue reading Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)
How To Make Your Websites Look and Feel Original
There are hundreds of millions of websites active on the web. It can be hard to imagine how a single lonely website or brand can hope to make an impact. Decent inbound marketing can be help, and Search Engine Optimization can certainly play a role, but none of these efforts will help you get visitors… Continue reading How To Make Your Websites Look and Feel Original
How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator
I recently shared some tips with a subscriber about how to create a nautical star design in Illustrator, which then prompted me to research traditional nautical star and compass rose layouts and construct an ornate design of my own. The process makes use of lots of simple but really useful techniques in Illustrator to build… Continue reading How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator
Arrange Images into Flexible Grid with Photoset Grid
Photoset Grid is a simple jQuery plugin to arrange images into a flexible grid, based on Tumblr’s photoset feature. Originally the plugin was created for the Style Hatch Tumblr themes as a way to use the photoset grid in responsive layouts, but they have since expanded it and released a jQuery plugin for us. Beyond… Continue reading Arrange Images into Flexible Grid with Photoset Grid