How to Mirror an Image in Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Whether you are a beginner or an expert, mirroring an image in Adobe Photoshop is one of the most commonly used skills. However, with so many tools available to you, it might be quite daunting to learn for someone who is just getting started. So for this tutorial we will learn… Continue reading How to Mirror an Image in Photoshop

How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site

The WordPress ecosystem is huge, so it can be a challenge to find the perfect theme to match your brand in every respect. A good starting point is by browsing the thousands of high-quality WordPress themes on ThemeForest.  However, it frequently happens that you find an almost perfect design but you still want to tweak it a little—or… Continue reading How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site

How to Make a YouTube Profile Picture (Using a YouTube Profile Picture Maker)

YouTube is one of the hottest social media platforms around today, and with so much great content competing for attention, anything you can do to make your account stand out is a win. That’s why you need to make every aspect of your account as eye-catching as you can, starting with your YouTube profile picture.   Today… Continue reading How to Make a YouTube Profile Picture (Using a YouTube Profile Picture Maker)

CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility

Color accessibility is an important part of visual accessibility. People with various types of visual impairments, such as color blindness and low vision, perceive colors in different ways. As a result, the meaning of colors becomes less significant or is completely lost for users with visual disabilities. Although most articles on color accessibility give design tips… Continue reading CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility

How to Create a Wanted Poster

What You’ll Be Creating Would you like to see your face on one of these old wanted dead or alive posters? Of course, just for fun! In this tutorial I will show you how to do it using a very simple wanted poster generator. Use a fully customizable wanted poster template to create your own… Continue reading How to Create a Wanted Poster

12 Best CSS Animations on CodeCanyon

In the past few years, browsers have come a long way when it comes to supporting newer CSS properties that allow developers to create nice effects and animations using just pure CSS. There is a lot of browser support for using different transitions and keyframe animations in your projects now. You no longer have to… Continue reading 12 Best CSS Animations on CodeCanyon

How to Create a Graffiti Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Learn how to create graffiti art from your photos in Adobe Photoshop, using filters and adjustments. Follow along with us over on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: The graffiti effect is part of Graffiti Effect with Pop Up Photoshop Action from my portfolio on Envato Market. Graffiti Effect with Pop Up Photoshop Action… Continue reading How to Create a Graffiti Effect in Adobe Photoshop

How to Install WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating So you want a WordPress site? That’s great. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system (or CMS), and for good reason. With WordPress, you can get yourself a flexible, scalable, and user-friendly website. The software itself is free, and all you have to pay for is the hosting you’ll… Continue reading How to Install WordPress

Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?

Heart-warming or not, co-creation with a client—the utopian ideal of shared vision—has its drawbacks. There are only so many times you can hear the words “brand strategy” before actually chewing your own face off. In the age of WordPress, Drupal and, dare I say it, Wix, it’s never been more tempting to pay lip-service to… Continue reading Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?

25+ Best Popup & Opt-In WordPress Plugins

Whether you are running a blog or eCommerce business, you will need to convert your website visitors into subscribers in order to be successful. By adding a stylish and interactive popup and opt-in WordPress plugin to your website, you can easily convert your visitors into subscribers and eventually paying customers. One of the many high-quality Popup… Continue reading 25+ Best Popup & Opt-In WordPress Plugins

Where Is php.ini, the PHP Configuration File?

In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss php.ini—the main configuration file in PHP. From the beginner’s perspective, we’ll discuss what it’s meant for, where to locate it, and a couple of important configuration settings it provides. What Is php.ini? Whether you’re a PHP beginner or a seasoned developer, I’m sure that you’ve heard of php.ini:… Continue reading Where Is php.ini, the PHP Configuration File?

Take Off With Aviationstack’s Real-Time Flight API

In our increasingly global world, people travel by airplane…a lot. With rapid turnaround times, unpredictable weather, and unexpected delays, airlines both domestic and international frequently adjust their flight schedules to keep us moving. If you’re building a website, a progressive web app, or even a native app that involves any kind of travel, the last… Continue reading Take Off With Aviationstack’s Real-Time Flight API

5 Quick Ways to Start Your First Sketch

If you are trying to get into the world of graphic design and want to flex your artistic muscles, then you have come to the right place. Many aspiring artists are like deer caught in the headlights and are overwhelmed by the skill of others. The thing is that all of those artists also started… Continue reading 5 Quick Ways to Start Your First Sketch

Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

Imagine the public excitement when, in 1951, William Edmund Hick (“Hickey” to his friends?!) and Ray (with an “a”) Hyman published research about people’s responses to a bunch of flashing lights. I’m sure no-one could imagine how important this work would be for the information age since, of course, at that time, a bank of… Continue reading Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

How to Make a Fancy Menu Template

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a restaurant menu template in Adobe InDesign. Complete with a luxurious color palette and a vintage style, this fancy menu template is perfect for high-end restaurants or luxury bars.  This InDesign menu template, which consists of an A4-sized food menu and A5 drinks… Continue reading How to Make a Fancy Menu Template

Understanding Inner Shadows in Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Photoshop layer styles are a popular way to add effects, such as drop shadows and strokes, to layers in a non-destructive way. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain all the different settings that you’ll need to know about when adding an inner shadow in Photoshop. So, if you want to… Continue reading Understanding Inner Shadows in Photoshop

How to Make a Business Flyer (Using a Flyer Generator)

Creating beautiful and effective business flyers doesn’t have to be a challenge when you use Placeit’s flyer creator.  The Placeit flyer creator, also known as the flyer generator, is a terrific app that offers one of the largest collections of flyer templates on the internet and makes it easy for large and small businesses to create perfect business flyers… Continue reading How to Make a Business Flyer (Using a Flyer Generator)

Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, November 2019

This month, the slow decline of minimalism continues, and color is everywhere. There’s some awesome type, and video-based maximalism seems to be gaining a foothold. Enjoy! Another Colour I adore Another Colour’s site. It takes incredible complexity to produce an effect this simple. The landing page is a looping rainbow gradient, and the gradient strip… Continue reading Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, November 2019

How to Create a Print-Ready Pocket Folder

A pocket folder professionally organizes your documents. When customized with a design to match your brand, it can be the cherry on top of your marketing collateral. However, it can be a long road to that perfect presentation folder if your design isn’t print-ready. What type of file do you have? Is it the correct… Continue reading How to Create a Print-Ready Pocket Folder

How to Create Your Own AJAX WooCommerce Wishlist Plugin

In this tutorial we will create lightweight wishlist functionality for WooCommerce using AJAX, WordPress REST API, and SVG graphics. WooCommerce doesn’t come with wishlist functionality as standard, so you’ll always need to rely on an extension to do the work for you. Unless you build it yourself for complete control.. Wish Upon a Star Wishlist… Continue reading How to Create Your Own AJAX WooCommerce Wishlist Plugin

Create Adverts For Your WordPress Site

Advertising is one of the main ways that websites generate revenue. Perhaps you created a blog specifically to drive people towards your website’s Store page, and want to give visitors that extra little push? Maybe you run several websites, and want to promote your biggest-earner across your entire portfolio? Or maybe you don’t have anything… Continue reading Create Adverts For Your WordPress Site

3 Essential Design Trends, November 2019

There’s always a balance between visual design and functional design. Many of the “rules” of design as we know them exist to make visuals more functional. That’s not exactly true of all of the techniques that are trending right now. But sometimes rules are made to be broken, right? You can take these trends in… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, November 2019

How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Need to create beautiful looking Instagram stories, but don’t have the required tools to start doing so? Well, what if I told you that there’s an easy way you can change that, using Placeit’s online Instagram Story Templates. Believe it or not, you can actually use templates for Instagram stories, such… Continue reading How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop

How to Use the WordPress Responsive YouTube Playlist Video Player Plugin

In this post, I’m going to review the WordPress Responsive YouTube Playlist Video Player plugin, which allows you to integrate a video player which is capable of playing YouTube playlists seamlessly. For websites that deal with a lot of video streaming content, it’s important that they should organize their content in a way which is… Continue reading How to Use the WordPress Responsive YouTube Playlist Video Player Plugin