What You’ll Be Creating If you want to create vector flames in Illustrator, in this tutorial I will show you how to create an illustration of a burning match using a fire gradient. You’ll learn how to make a realistic match flame that is also fully scalable. And if you need some vector flames, but… Continue reading Create a Burning Vector Match Using Gradient Meshes
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5 Best Free Courses and Resources to Level Up As a Web Designer
I often see freelancers on social media asking what the secret is to working fewer hours, making more money, and helping new clients to find them. While those things tend to happen the longer you’ve been freelancing, it doesn’t happen without some effort. If you’re wondering how you can change things so that your business… Continue reading 5 Best Free Courses and Resources to Level Up As a Web Designer
How to Start a Successful Career in Web Design in 2020
The internet is completely changing everything about the world we live in today. Outside of just visiting websites and social media platforms, the demand for having an online presense is a requirement for businesses, brands and organizations of all sizes. This also means that there is a great demand for site developers, content creators and… Continue reading How to Start a Successful Career in Web Design in 2020
How to Make a Rap Album Cover Art (Using an Album Cover Maker)
If you’re an aspiring rap artist, independent rap label, or an MC spitting lyrics, at some point you’re going to need a cool album cover design to promote your work. The Placeit album cover maker app offers a wide selection of album covers that you can customise in a matter of minutes to create amazing… Continue reading How to Make a Rap Album Cover Art (Using an Album Cover Maker)
10+ Best PHP Learning Management System Scripts
Whether you run an in-person school or an online learning platform, you need a learning management system (LMS) that will help you run your enterprise efficiently. PHP learning management systems are a great option. Classes, courses, and training are now commonly delivered and administered through learning management systems. Lessons are created and uploaded on these… Continue reading 10+ Best PHP Learning Management System Scripts
How to Create Patterns in Affinity Designer
What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial, we’re going to learn how to make a pattern in Affinity Designer. We’ll explore three different methods in order to see which one is the best. Also, don’t forget you can always expand your pattern library by heading over to Envato Elements, where you’ll find a great selection of… Continue reading How to Create Patterns in Affinity Designer
Photoshop Basics: How to Feather in Photoshop
July 20, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine What is ‘Feather’ in Photoshop? To ‘feather’ an image simply means to soften its edges. In some references, ‘feathering’ is also called blurred edges. Feathering is done to an image for a variety of purposes. This is usually used to isolate a certain part of an image, to use… Continue reading Photoshop Basics: How to Feather in Photoshop
The Best (Free) Website Mockup Tools In 2020
A website mockup is also known as a wireframe. Oxford defines a wireframe as “an image or set of images which displays the functional elements of a website or page, typically used for planning a site’s structure and functionality.” For UX designer Chris Newnham, a wireframe is “a crucial phase when designing a website, app,… Continue reading The Best (Free) Website Mockup Tools In 2020
35 Best Calligraphy Fonts
Add a modern calligraphy font to your designs. Explore this amazing selection of cool calligraphy letter fonts curated from GraphicRiver and Envato Elements. Shania is one of the best calligraphy fonts available on Envato Elements. 35 Best Calligraphy Fonts Calligraphy is an exquisite art form. From calligraphy tattoo fonts to wedding invitations, each letter is… Continue reading 35 Best Calligraphy Fonts
Developing a WordPress Website 101: The Important Five C
Recently I’ve been given a task to build and develop a website from scratch. When I say from scratch, I meant from nothing, no hosting, no direction on what the website will be, only a concept from the client that needs to build a website with niche toward or something similar to lifestyle blog as… Continue reading Developing a WordPress Website 101: The Important Five C
33 Best Facebook Covers Using a Facebook Cover Photo Maker
Your Facebook cover photo occupies one of the most noticeable areas on your Facebook page—the top third of the page. Whether you’re just using your page to connect to friends and family or you’re a business looking to raise brand awareness, generate leads, or close deals, it’s critical that you know how to use and… Continue reading 33 Best Facebook Covers Using a Facebook Cover Photo Maker
Should Your Site Be Using Dark Mode?
Taking a stab in the dark is taking on a new meaning with the rise of dark mode design. One of the most requested features over the past few years, both Apple and Google have made a dark theme an essential part of their UI. But why is this? What are the benefits? Are there… Continue reading Should Your Site Be Using Dark Mode?
How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)
In this new tutorial, we’ll start with some grayscale images and learn how to smoothly reveal their colored variants on scroll. To achieve the desired effect, we’re going to take advantage of different modern front-end features like CSS Grid, the clip-path property, and the Intersection Observer API. Our Grayscale to Color Effect Without further intro, let’s check… Continue reading How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)
20 Best Face Mask Mockups (PSD, Mockup Generator)
With the battle to contain the spread of Covid-19, face masks have now become a necessary and unavoidable part of our daily lives, and designers across the globe are making sure that we protect ourselves in style. Check out the terrific face masks mockups available from Envato Elements, GraphicRiver, and Placeit If you’re looking for a face… Continue reading 20 Best Face Mask Mockups (PSD, Mockup Generator)
3 Essential Design Trends, May 2020
The state of the world around us can greatly impact website design. From emotional changes that correlate to the feel of a design to information and data to deliver, the impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is making its way into projects (intentionally or not). Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. “Unbalanced” Use… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, May 2020
How to Build a Simple Toggle Switch Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack
In this short tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a CSS-only switch component by taking advantage of the “CSS checkbox hack technique”. Along the way, we’ll also look at other switch implementations on Codepen. Sound like a good challenge? Our Switch Component Here’s what we’ll be building during this tutorial–a simple todo checklist: For design… Continue reading How to Build a Simple Toggle Switch Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack
10 Inspiring Side Projects From Designers
Side projects can help to demonstrate your passion and enthusiasm for design to future clients or employers and can create a great new addition to your design portfolio. Side projects are a way you can work on things you want to work on — rather than just ones which are bringing in the money. Whether… Continue reading 10 Inspiring Side Projects From Designers
7 Online Business Ideas That You Can Start With Just WordPress Plugins
As the time passes by, the online businesses are growing rapidly with the support of already available online business platforms, plugins etc. And to Achieve the same, WordPress is much louder than anything else around to fulfill the required online business existence without any boundaries and limitations. As having the high-end yet diversified software… Continue reading 7 Online Business Ideas That You Can Start With Just WordPress Plugins
Create a Wave Motion Effect on an Image with Three.js
Waves! Because who does not enjoy the visual comfort an oscillating motion has on the human eye? Well, I do and for this tutorial, I would like to explain how to make waves on a 3D plane with Three.js using simplex noise. To keep things short, we’ll just focus on the plane effect and not… Continue reading Create a Wave Motion Effect on an Image with Three.js
6 Best Browsers for Developers in 2020
On the surface, web browsers seem very similar. They all provide you with a relatively straightforward way to get online and search for the content that you need. However, the more time you spend building your skills as a designer/developer, the more you’ll recognize the need for a unique kind of browsing experience. Fortunately, we’ve found… Continue reading 6 Best Browsers for Developers in 2020
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)
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 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?