How to Create an Instagram Ad Template

What You’ll Be Creating Learn how to create an eye-catching ad by using an Instagram post template, without Photoshop. If you want to promote your brand or your product at a low cost, and still reach your target audience effectively, you can do it with the help of Instagram. An eye-catching Instagram post will make… Continue reading How to Create an Instagram Ad Template

Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020

Are you starting 2020 off on the right foot? How about keeping up with those resolutions to learn or try something new? Either way, you’re in luck. This roundup is packed with new tools to help you through projects or learn new tricks to enhance your skillset. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. Calcolor… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020

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

How to Design a Letterpress Business Card in Adobe Illustrator

Oh, you fancy! Follow these simple tips, tricks, dos, and don’ts to achieve the letterpress business card design of your dreams! But first… If you found yourself here and you’re all “Wait, what the f*ck is letterpress?” Let us explain. Let’s start with what NOT to do, shall we? 1. No photos. We have lots… Continue reading How to Design a Letterpress Business Card in Adobe Illustrator

50 Amazing 3D Text Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator (Beginner to Advanced)

Master text effects with these 50 amazing tutorials. Check out this list for inspiration. 50 3D Text Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator Type communicates so much more than just words. And when creatives join forces with type, they create magical text effects using programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Want to get in on the… Continue reading 50 Amazing 3D Text Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator (Beginner to Advanced)

Designing Websites Around Colorblind Users

Colorblind users are more common than you might realize. It’s not hard to design your website to make it easy for colorblind visitors to use. In fact, it will often make your designs more effective for all users, not just those with atypical sight conditions. Learn how to design your website around colorblind users to… Continue reading Designing Websites Around Colorblind Users

How to Create a Realistic Embroidery Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic embroidery text effect in Photoshop using stitch brushes and layer styles. The end result will be a font that look like it’s embroidery!  This is part of my embroidery effect Photoshop action, which is part of Embroidery and Stitching Photoshop… Continue reading How to Create a Realistic Embroidery Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

15 Examples of Cool One-Page Websites & What Makes Them Special

Posted · Category: Best Collections Creating a single-page website should be easier than building an X-page website. Right? Not exactly. In fact, the opposite is true. Getting your message or messages across using multiple pages requires some effort. This is if you’re going to get it right. Getting your message across on a single page… Continue reading 15 Examples of Cool One-Page Websites & What Makes Them Special

How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating From this tutorial, you’ll learn some new techniques and tricks. We’ll be using the Isometric Map Mockup product as an example and seeing in detail how it was created. At the end, you’ll have a fully workable action and confidence in building “transformation actions”.  Got no time and need this action as soon as possible?… Continue reading How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop

How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)

A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design

Good typography is vital to having an effective website. Visitors need to be able to read the info on a site, whether it is an eCommerce website or a purely informational website. If they aren’t able to read it, they will quickly leave. The site will not be linked to, so it won’t show up… Continue reading A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design

Landing UI Kit with 80+ Layouts

Posted · Category: License Free, PS Tutorials Landing Free UI Kit has tons of handcrafted UI components created to increase your web creating speed, for Sketch and Photoshop. They’ve chosen the bright color palette that arouses only positive emotions and is sure to be loved by almost everyone. 80+ layouts in most popular categories commonly… Continue reading Landing UI Kit with 80+ Layouts

How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

Today, WordPress powers 25% of all of the world’s websites, so it’s safe to say that what started as blogging software has grown into something much bigger than its humble origins, and is ready to be used on production-level sites from news portals to complete web applications. With this level of professionalism, new needs arise.  On a personal blog read by… Continue reading How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

46 Cool Blog Header Designs for Your Inspiration

Inspiration There are people claiming that the design of your blog is not that important. Just install one of the free themes for your WordPress and you’re good to go. In the end, we all know that content is king. If you must, upload your logo but then that’s that. In fact, it’s not so… Continue reading 46 Cool Blog Header Designs for Your Inspiration

A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding an Enable Type Option

Providing end users with the option to enable or disable certain features of a premium plugin or a theme is pretty common. Titan Framework has recently pushed a new option to its core which does exactly that. Let’s see how you can add an enable/disable toggle button inside an admin panel, a metabox or a… Continue reading A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding an Enable Type Option

Working with Type on a Path in Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this quick tip tutorial, you will learn how to add Type on a Path in Adobe Illustrator. This is handy for logos and badges. So let’s get to it! Text Around a Circular Path Let’s start with the badge scenario. The first thing you need to do is create a… Continue reading Working with Type on a Path in Illustrator

Headlines and Taglines Set in Subtle and Slim Type

Recently we have published an article dedicated to using bold dominating type typography in website design. It definitely has its own advantages over others, but there are some cases, when powerful all-embracing fat type looks inappropriate and ruins all the harmony. So, it is more reasonable to use slim type that offers its own benefits,… Continue reading Headlines and Taglines Set in Subtle and Slim Type

Working with Types: Typography Tutorial for Beginners

In this typography design tutorial, I will guide you on how to transform boring texts to your advantage. You will learn how to utilize typography for your website, or even for your print needs. This article will extend from web page design, to printing to graphic images. They say letters are boring. Unlike videos and… Continue reading Working with Types: Typography Tutorial for Beginners

35 Beautiful Examples of Text-Based type Logos

Typography is an art of playing with alphabets in a beautiful way. There are several typographers out there who create interesting typographic pieces of art for you in the form of posters and logos. Doing typography in logos or making typographic logos isnot an easy task, which infact require special designing skills and lots of… Continue reading 35 Beautiful Examples of Text-Based type Logos