What You’ll Need What Is Matte Painting in Photoshop? Let’s go back to the days before Photoshop because matte painting has been around for over 100 years. Originally, matte painting was a hyper-realistic backdrop used in photography and film. This technique allowed filmmakers to create detailed environments of cityscapes and landscapes using various methods. Sometimes, the… Continue reading What Is Matte Painting in Photoshop?
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How to Create an Artistic Painting Effect in Affinity Photo
Today, we’ll be taking a look at how to create artistic painting effects in Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo may not have any dedicated artist effect filters, but it has more than enough amazing built-in tools that let you turn a photo into a painting or drawing. All without a drawing tablet! We are putting three… Continue reading How to Create an Artistic Painting Effect in Affinity Photo
3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint
At the dawn of the web-era, there was much focus on how environmentally friendly websites were: we’d chop down fewer trees, ship fewer products, and travel less for business. And because the web was small, any negative impact it had was relatively small. But the Internet’s no longer small, and neither is the impact it… Continue reading 3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint
Show Them Your Assets – Tips for Handing Off Designs to Developers
You’ve been working away at your latest design project, and the client has given the go-ahead on your lovingly created digital concepts. Now it’s time to bring those designs to life, and you have a developer queued up to do just that. So your part’s done, right? Not quite. You’re going to want to make… Continue reading Show Them Your Assets – Tips for Handing Off Designs to Developers
How to Reduce Image File Size for Your Website
Images are an enormous part of the modern online experience. To use them effectively, you’ll need to know how to reduce image file size for your website. As average connection speed has increased, images have become less of a deadly burden on page load times. With the bandwidth sufficient to push a huge amount of… Continue reading How to Reduce Image File Size for Your Website
How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web
It’s not a sudden discovery that the size of web pages are increasing. Developers minify their code, ditch expansive libraries, and shift code to the server side, all in an attempt to shave 100 kB off their code base. You may even be asked to drop valuable libraries like jQuery in an attempt to speed… Continue reading How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web
10 Common WordPress Mistakes You Really Need to Fix!
When you think of WordPress, you may simply think of it as a good place to write your latest blog. Over recent years, WordPress has evolved into an adaptable and user-friendly content management system. In addition, WordPress is widely used amongst businesses because it is extremely customizable, free to use and has a large and… Continue reading 10 Common WordPress Mistakes You Really Need to Fix!
Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images
February 23, 2017 by Veronika As browser-based graphic design tools gain popularity among amateurs and professional designers there is an increased demand for ready-to-use transparent PNG images. Sure, raster design software, like Photoshop and its free alternatives (GIMP and Pixlr) can help you easily trace and cut out the unnecessary segments of a photo and… Continue reading Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images
Print Web & Mobile UI Templates With Sketchsheets
The best way to plan a new mobile UI is with rough wireframe sketching. You can quickly put down ideas onto paper and compare different ideas side-by-side without being limited by a mouse & keyboard. 20 Detailed UI Concept Sketches + Ready Designs For Your Inspiration 20 Detailed UI Concept Sketches + Ready Designs For… Continue reading Print Web & Mobile UI Templates With Sketchsheets
The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download
Advertisement The watercolor brushes give you a chance to make a connection between traditional art and digital art. Designing with watercolor effects in one of the most popular concepts in recent years, and has ensured a place both in web design and out-of-the-box photo editing. Some people argue that replicating watercolor effects in the digital… Continue reading The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download
Diverse Device Hands by Facebook
The design team at Facebook has just released another great free resource called Diverse Device Hands: it is basically a set of phone mockups held by hands that you can use in any presentation of your designs. The package includes PNGs of the hands holding various devices as well as a Sketch file of the hands with vector… Continue reading Diverse Device Hands by Facebook
How to Optimize Images on Websites to Improve Performance and UX
As the number of images and videos on a website continue to grow, slower load times, which result in a negative user experience, are growing concerns for any company. An article in The Fiscal Times, citing Internet data measurement company HTTP Archive, noted that the average website is now 2.1 MB in size, compared to… Continue reading How to Optimize Images on Websites to Improve Performance and UX
Free Download : Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG)
This is a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of Colored Line Icons.The set contains 30 colored line icons in pastel tones for your next design project. The icons come in vector format (SVG) and PNGs of various sizes.The icons of this set have a clean line and a glowy, playful look. A bright… Continue reading Free Download : Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG)