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Affinity Designer Templates / 2 Jan 2023

25+ Most Helpful Affinity Designer Tutorials (+ Reviews) in 2024

Affinity Designer is a vector or raster app. It’s a competitor to Adobe’s Illustrator and allows you to design various elements for print or digital publication.

It’s part of the Affinity package of design tools made by Serif. Use it to do anything from making a business card to mock-up an app. Affinity Designer is made for Mac iOS, Windows, and iPad.

Here, we’ve collected some of the best for everyone from beginners to more seasoned pros, a mix of video and written tutorials. It’s a great place to start for upskilling with your first steps in Affinity Designer!

Inspiration / 1 Jan 2023

20+ Best DaVinci Resolve Lower Thirds Templates 2024

Designing modern and professional-looking lower thirds in DaVinci Resolve is about to get much easier.

In this collection, we bring you some of the best DaVinci Resolve lower thirds templates with premium-quality designs for making lower thirds for all kinds of videos.

There are many different styles of lower thirds templates in our collection. Whether it’s a YouTube vlog, documentary video, news clip, or social media promo, there are lower thirds templates for all kinds of videos. The best part is you can download them all with an Envato Elements subscription.

However, if you’re low on budget, we included a few free lower thirds templates in this post as well. They are great for your personal projects. Check them all out below.

Mockup Templates / 31 Dec 2022

35+ Best Food & Product Packaging Templates in 2024

Product packaging design is not just about making a container for a product. It’s also about persuasion and creating a positive experience.

That’s exactly why you can’t learn packaging design by watching few a YouTube videos. There are certain guidelines and standards you need to follow. So if you’re looking to design packaging for a product, it’s best to leave it to the professionals. Or, you could use templates.

In this post, we feature a set of packaging templates for various types of products. They are designed by professionals so you won’t have to hire someone else for the job.

Also, remember that you can customize these templates however you like. A packaging template for a coffee brand can be used to create a cookie packaging design if you want to.

After Effects Templates / 31 Dec 2022

53+ Best After Effects Intro Templates 2024

Even expert designers and video editors need a helping hand sometimes. In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best After Effects intro templates for quickly making modern and effective intro scenes, logo reveals, and openers for all kinds of videos.

These templates can also be easily customized to your preference by changing colors, fonts, and images to make them fit perfectly in your videos.

Whether you’re looking for an intro scene for a YouTube video, a corporate video, branding video, or even a wedding video album, below you’ll find templates to fit all your needs.

Plus, we’re sharing our tips for making a compelling intro video to help get you off to a great start. Let’s dive in!

Mockup Templates / 30 Dec 2022

20+ Best Twitter Header Templates for 2024

The profile cover or the header image is one of the first things people see when they visit your Twitter profile. And it serves as a great opportunity for you to promote your brand, identity, and services to your profile visitors.

Instead of using a random stock photo, you should always put more thought into designing a better Twitter header for your profile. Because it’s part of your brand and identity.

There are many ways you can design more attractive Twitter header designs. One way is to find inspiration from the header designs used by more successful profiles and try to design one with a similar layout. Or you could download a template to make an even better header design.

This collection is filled with trendy and stylish Twitter header templates you can easily customize and use to make your profile look more professional. Go grab a template and create a unique header for your Twitter page.

Email Templates / 28 Dec 2022

60+ Modern Responsive Email Templates 2024

If you want your next email campaign to stand the best chance of success, using a responsive design that looks good on any screen or device is really important. Responsive email design is notoriously difficult, so starting with a template can be a good bet.

It’s worth taking advantage of pre-made responsive templates that have already been tested on a variety of screen sizes and email clients, then customizing them to your own requirements.

These templates are crafted by highly skilled designers, and many of them include template builders with unique customization options to make tweaking them super simple!

As a bonus, our tips for designing a responsive email will help give you some great design pointers!

Final Cut Pro Templates / 26 Dec 2022

22+ Best Final Cut Pro Tutorials for Beginners 2024

Goal: Edit videos, add effects, and create better productions with ease in Final Cut Pro. Solution: You need a stellar tutorial that walks you through all the steps in this increasingly popular video editing tool.

Thanks to great tutorials from pros, you’ll be able to capture just the right moment, with the right effect quickly.

We’ve rounded up some of the best Final Cut Pro tutorials out there for beginners to help you make the most of this software. Note that Final Cut Pro is a robust tool, but it is only available for the Mac.

PowerPoint Templates / 25 Dec 2022

20+ Best PowerPoint Templates for Charts + Graphs 2024

One of the best ways to add more credibility to your presentations and build trust in your audience is to use numbers and statistics in your slideshows.

When you add charts, graphs, and diagrams to your presentations it not only helps reinforce your claims but also shows the level of your knowledge in the industry. Simply put, it shows your audience that you know what you’re talking about.

As designers, we always encourage adding more charts and infographics to your presentations. There’s no need to design them yourself. We’ve got templates for that.

In this collection, we have lots of different types of PowerPoint templates with charts and graphs. There are templates with org charts, gantt charts, flow charts, and so much more.

These charts are easily customizable so you can add your own numbers and data in to the charts with just a few clicks. Take a look and start downloading.

Software / 24 Dec 2022

The 8 Best Photoshop Alternatives for Windows (2024)

Looking for a faster and better alternative to Adobe Photoshop? While Photoshop has been a standard for years, that’s starting to change with plenty of new tools for Windows that make easy work of photo editing. Many of these new tools include smart functions that will speed up workflows.

The best Photoshop alternatives pack in just the features you need without a lot of fluff you won’t use. Here’s a list of the best Photoshop alternatives for Windows in 2023.

Take note of special features to find the one that’s right for you.

UX Design / 23 Dec 2022

Microinteractions Are Growing Up: How to Design Them in 2024

Microinteractions aren’t a new concept in UX design, but they keep getting more impressive. We’ve been talking about microinteractions here at Design Shack for a while because they are so vital to the overall success of web projects.

Microinteractions are those tiny details that turn an ordinary user experience into something more memorable and engaging. The little things that surprise and delight, adding a layer of enjoyable UX to your app or website.

Here’s a look at how designers are using microinteractions in 2021 with examples of how this design technique has grown up.

Logo Templates / 23 Dec 2022

40+ Best Free Logo Makers + Design Templates 2024

Are you working on a simple logo for a creative or a personal project? Then our collection of free logo makers and logo templates will help you design a better-looking logo without having to break the bank.

Sure, using premium logo templates can help make your design look more professional. But, if you’re working on a small project of your own, there are many great free resources you can use to craft a stylish logo on your own while saving money.

In this post, we’re featuring some of the best online logo maker tools you can use to make logos as well as free logo templates for easily making a logo using Photoshop or Illustrator. Have a look.

Lightroom Presets / 21 Dec 2022

60+ Best Landscape Lightroom Presets 2024

Unlike taking portrait photos, capturing beautiful scenes in travel and landscape photos is quite difficult because you have to work with the natural lighting conditions. With the power of a landscape Lightroom preset, you can add incredible depth and personality to your landscape photos with just a few clicks!

Whether you’re a professional photographer using a DSLR or a traveler snapping photos with a smartphone, Lightroom is a must-have app that will help improve your landscape photos. One of the many benefits of using Lightroom is the ability to use presets. With a simple Lightroom preset, you can instantly optimize your photos, adjust colors, lighting, and more with just one-click.

In this collection, we handpicked some of the best landscape Lightroom presets you can use to enhance your outdoor photos without having to spend hours adjusting and optimizing settings in Photoshop.

We’re also featuring a set of tips for editing landscape photos, with helpful ideas and advice.