Tutorials

How to Draw Angel Wings

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I will show you how to draw wings on the back of a human, creating an angel. Angels, though seen as spiritual rather than material, are pictured as winged humans. But wings are not simply an appendix growing out of the shoulder blades—they’re specialized arms. So a typical… Continue reading How to Draw Angel Wings

How to Remove a Person From a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Is there a certain detail ruining your perfect shot? Some photos are easy to recreate, while others need additional editing. Removing objects in Photoshop is quite easy. Today we’ll show you how to remove people from a nature landscape photo in Photoshop. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will explain the five easy steps you’ll need to… Continue reading How to Remove a Person From a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Secure Your WordPress Site With SSL

These days, it’s more important than ever for your WordPress site to use a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate, which encrypts the data between the client and the server. Browsers now mark sites as “secure” or “not secure”, and using SSL can boost your search engine rankings. Plus, of course, there are the obvious security… Continue reading Secure Your WordPress Site With SSL

Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD

The internet would be pretty dull without images. However, maintaining and manipulating hundreds or thousands of images for your web site can be a headache. As your site design changes, you might need to modify all your images—for example, you might need to convert all your images to grayscale or resize them to 50% of… Continue reading Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD

15 Ready-Made Ionic 3 App Templates

With Ionic, creating a high-performance, cross-platform mobile app is as easy as creating a website. In fact, if you are a seasoned web developer who wants to become an Android or iOS app developer overnight, all you have to do is install and start using Ionic. I assure you, you’ll take to it like a fish… Continue reading 15 Ready-Made Ionic 3 App Templates

Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

This is the second part of the series on Testing Components in React. If you have prior experience with Jest, you can skip ahead and use the GitHub code as a starting point. In the previous article, we covered the basic principles and ideas behind test-driven development. We also set up the environment and the tools… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

Master the Three.js 3D Web Graphics Framework in Our New Course

Learn how to use 3D graphics in your web design projects in our new short course, Three.js: Beyond the Basics. What You’ll Learn In our introductory course, 3D on the Web With Three.js, you were introduced to the world of 3D web graphics using the Three.js framework. In this new short course, Craig Campbell will help… Continue reading Master the Three.js 3D Web Graphics Framework in Our New Course

Understanding the Messy “Define” Stage

In our previous articles, we’ve discussed the basics of design thinking and immersive empathy. In this post, we’ll dive a little deeper into what we refer to as the “define” stage in that process. Warning: it’s messy! So let’s first remind ourselves where it sits in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal: Image source: Interaction Design… Continue reading Understanding the Messy “Define” Stage

Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

What You’ll Be Creating Looking on the internet, it’s fairly simple to find articles and information on creating a book—from how to do layout to character design, writing your own story, and so on. In my travels I found that unless you sat down with an experienced illustrator over a cup of coffee, you would… Continue reading Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

Testing Components in React Using Jest: The Basics

What You’ll Be Creating Testing code is a confusing practice for many developers. That’s understandable because writing tests requires more effort, time, and the ability to foresee possible use cases. Startups and developers working on smaller projects usually favor ignoring tests altogether because of the lack of resources and manpower. However, there are a couple… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest: The Basics

Design a Corporate Website Using UI Kits in Sketch

If you need to design a corporate website, you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble by using a UI kit. What is a UI kit, and how do you use one? Our new course, Design a Corporate Website Using UI Kits in Sketch, answers those questions in detail. Instructor Adi Purdila will… Continue reading Design a Corporate Website Using UI Kits in Sketch

International Artist Feature: Germany

We’re honouring the German language and culture this week in celebration of the launch of the German version of Envato Elements! For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany

Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and everyone is talking about it. It has introduced an all-new way of writing content with WordPress. So not only the developers can benefit from its block-modeled layout but the end-users will also be able to create dynamic page layouts with it. However, building custom blocks with Gutenberg can… Continue reading Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

How to Create a GTA V Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing photo effect inspired by the Grand Theft Auto V video game art style. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. The effect shown… Continue reading How to Create a GTA V Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg

What You’ll Be Creating WordPress Gutenberg is coming soon to a website near you. It will revolutionise the way you write posts and create pages, so get ready to use it by taking our new course, Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg. What You’ll Learn Gutenberg is a completely new way for people to create content… Continue reading Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg

20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library

Wireframing. User journeys. Content maps. User-centered design. Information architecture. Animated prototypes. Conversion paths. Iterative features. Sitemaps. Uhh, what? Let’s be honest, the world of UX (user experience) and UI (user interface) is full of jargon and overcomplicated terms. Take, for example, this real line I copy-pasted from a job description for a senior content specialist… Continue reading 20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library

How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating This sunlight photo effect is a part of the Rays Of Light Photoshop Action from my portfolio on Envato Market. You can also the check the Animated Sunlight Photoshop Creator. The color tones of the sunlight rays and the flare effects are easy to edit and customize. Sunlight Rays Photoshop Action Tutorial Assets… Continue reading How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

Which One Should You Use?

Today I’m going to try and answer a question that I imagine many of you have asked: “Which is better, Sketch or Adobe XD?”. In this video and article I’ll be explaining which I prefer, based on my own opinions and my own needs. Watch the Screencast Which is Better Suited to You? As a… Continue reading Which One Should You Use?

Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

Flutter is fast becoming one of the most popular frameworks for developing cross-platform mobile apps. Most Android and iOS developers today are starting to agree that it is a faster and more future-proof alternative to other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and NativeScript. Google itself is leaving no stone unturned to attract more developers to… Continue reading Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

Try Our New Course on Coding WordPress Plugins

What You’ll Be Creating If you want to get started coding your own plugins for WordPress, try our new course, 3 Practical Projects to Learn to Code WordPress Plugins. You’ll learn by completing practical projects, so not only will you learn a lot about coding plugins, but you’ll also end up with some useful, functional WordPress… Continue reading Try Our New Course on Coding WordPress Plugins

Coding Advanced WordPress Theme Templates

Our new short course is ideal for you if you want to take your WordPress development skills to the next level. Try out Coding Advanced WordPress Theme Templates, or read on and watch the intro video below for more details. What You’ll Learn Template files are at the heart of every WordPress theme. And if… Continue reading Coding Advanced WordPress Theme Templates

20 Best Bootstrap 4 Plugins

Totally open source and free to use, Bootstrap has become one of the most popular front-end frameworks for desktop and mobile development. With a mobile-first approach, the framework essentially forces designers to create sites for small screens and then scale designs up from there. Bootstrap 4 is the newest version of the framework, and today we… Continue reading 20 Best Bootstrap 4 Plugins

Creating Animations With MotionLayout for Android

Animating different widgets in your Android app had always been a painful experience for developers. However, all that changed with the introduction of the MotionLayout subclass in Android. You can use MotionLayout in your app to handle widget animations from one state to another. MotionLayout was added as a subclass of the ConstraintLayout class in… Continue reading Creating Animations With MotionLayout for Android

How to Upload and Download CSV Files With Angular

Datasets are extremely essential in building API models, and various business processes. This is why importing and exporting CSV is an often-needed functionality. In this tutorial you will learn now to download and import a CSV file within an Angular app. We’ll be working with a CSV file that contains employee details. The code will… Continue reading How to Upload and Download CSV Files With Angular