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Inspiration / 31 Jan 2025

10 Free Color Palettes From 10 Famous Paintings

If you want to learn a thing or two about color, why not look to the true masters whose artistic work has stood the test of time? Great painters almost always possess a keen understanding of color that is truly impressive when you stop to appreciate it.

Follow along as we pull color palettes from ten of my favorite artists and paintings and learn a thing or two about art history in the process. You’ll be able to see each palette as an Adobe Color CC swatch, and drop it right into Photoshop!

Photoshop Actions / 31 Jan 2025

100+ Best Photoshop Actions & Effects of 2025

Adobe Photoshop Actions are a great feature of the app, allowing you to create a process or workflow, record how it worked, and then easily repeat the process again for other photographs or design elements.

Today we’ve collected some of the best Photoshop actions out there, for photographers and graphic designers alike.

They cost just a few dollars but give you an incredibly powerful toolkit to easily repeat complex and intricate processes.

Inspiration / 30 Jan 2025

90+ Best Social Media Kit Templates & Graphics 2025

Are you working on crafting a content plan to promote your brand and business on social media? Then these social media kits and templates will help you design amazing graphics for your social media campaigns like a pro.

Preparing content for your social media promotions is a time-consuming process that most social media managers and marketers have to deal with.

But don’t worry. You can use these social media kits and graphics templates designed by professionals to quickly edit and use with your own social media campaigns. The best part is you can easily edit and customize them all by yourself (and we’re sharing some helpful social media template tips to help get you started!)

PowerPoint Templates / 30 Jan 2025

100+ Best Minimal PowerPoint Templates 2025

Delivering a minimalist PowerPoint presentation can clearly convey your message, and remove any clutter. This collection of modern, minimal PowerPoint templates is a great place to start—they put the focus on you as the speaker, and what you have to convey!

These files are all fully editable and can be easily tweaked according to your needs. Most come with hundreds of example slides with graphs, tables, images, text, and more. They’re perfect for giving that next presentation a special touch.

Embrace the minimal design philosophy, choose a stunning PowerPoint template for your next presentation that has clean lines, subtle design, and a simple, professional look-and-feel.

PowerPoint Templates / 30 Jan 2025

100+ Best Animated PowerPoint Templates 2025 (Free + Premium)

In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best, animated PowerPoint templates (both premium and free) to create stunning presentations filled with stylish object and transition animations.

Designing a PowerPoint presentation is not an easy job. It requires a lot of work and time. When crafting presentations, most people completely ignore one of the key elements of a creative slideshow: animation. Adding creative animations and effects not only makes your presentation slides interactive, but it’s also useful when emphasizing key points and data.

Of course, you don’t have to be a PowerPoint expert to design animated slideshows. You can simply use a pre-made animated PowerPoint template. We handpicked these templates just for you.

We’re also featuring a series of tips for creating animations and transitions in PowerPoint with some extra pointers and advice.

Reviews / 29 Jan 2025

Why Choose Kinsta in 2025? Best New Features & Upgrades

2024 has been a busy year for Kinsta, as the web hosting provider has been rolling out one new feature after another over the past few months.

Today, we take a look at some of the best new features and upgrades you’ll receive when hosting your website at Kinsta in 2025.

Since our site is also hosted at Kinsta, we are just as excited as you are about these new features. Let’s dive in and see what’s new.

Font Collections / 29 Jan 2025

30+ Best Shadow Fonts (Free & Premium) 2025

Adding a drop-shadow to your text in Photoshop is a great way to highlight titles and make a cool text effect.

What if there’s a font that already has a shadow effect and you can use in any software? Well, that’s exactly what a shadow font is all about.

Shadow fonts are a special type of font that comes with a built-in shadow effect. Sometimes, this effect even gives a cool 3D-like look to the font as well.

In this collection, we are showing you some of the best fonts with shadow lettering that have various styles of designs and purposes. Have a look.

Font Collections / 29 Jan 2025

30+ Best 3D Fonts 2025 (Free & Premium)

Every designer wants their designs to stand out and look different. Yet they keep using the same fonts in their projects. The only way to create unique designs is to think outside the box and leverage new trends. So what if you used a 3D font in your next design project?

3D fonts aren’t new but they are rarely used in print and digital designs. Let’s change that. To show you how amazing 3D fonts can be, we handpicked a list of the best 3D fonts you can download and use with your own projects.

Whether you’re working on a poster design, flyer, T-shirt design, or even a website header design, these 3D fonts will help you create titles and headings that stand out from the crowd.

Lightroom Presets / 28 Jan 2025

80+ Best VSCO Lightroom Presets 2025

VSCO is a popular photography app for both Android and iOS, known for stunning filters and effects. Today we’re featuring a selection of VSCO Lightroom presets, inspired by the VSCO app, to help you achieve similar results with greater power and flexibility.

If you have a copy of Lightroom, you probably want to have more control over the specific nuances of how a filter is applied. We’ve found this collection of Lightroom presets that feature pretty much the same filters, effects, and adjustments included in the VSCO app.

The only difference is they are quite a bit easier to customize and change in more dramatic ways. Plus, you can apply these Lightroom presets to your photos with just one click!

Keynote Templates / 28 Jan 2025

100+ Best Free Keynote Templates 2025

Today we’re bringing you a collection of the best free Keynote templates for making all kinds of presentation slideshows, including business, creative, agency, and startup pitch decks.

Keynote is a great tool for making effective presentations. But, let’s face it, when it comes to the default templates included, your options are limited. Luckily you can still download and use Keynote templates made by other designers. For this collection, we handpicked some of the best free Keynote templates just for you.

Sure, these templates might not have the polish of premium Keynote templates you can spend a few dollars on. But, for the very low price of free, these will give you more than enough to design a stand-out slideshow.

Accessibility / 28 Jan 2025

Why Accessibility Improves SEO (And Why You Should Care)

Website accessibility and SEO go hand in hand. They basically share the same goal of creating a user-friendly, easy-to-navigate website that is accessible to a wider audience.

However, most websites on the Internet are still not fully optimized for accessibility. According to a survey, 88% of 63,000 websites were found not to be compliant with web accessibility guidelines.

Thankfully, the awareness of the importance and many benefits of web accessibility is on the rise. Today, we want to shed some light on yet another benefit of optimizing a website for accessibility—SEO!

That’s right! Web accessibility helps improve websites for search engines in many different ways. Here’s how.

Graphics / 27 Jan 2025

Border Design: 8 Tips & Modern Examples

Graphic designers have been using borders for as long as they have been designing things. And they’re a fun element to play with. We’re taking a look at eight border design concepts (most of them you can actually download as project starters), along with tips for usage and some examples that you can try in projects.

Sometimes a great border can help separate your design for other elements, such as around the perimeter of an ad. Other times, a border can serve as an element to help break up different parts of a design, or frame messaging or content.

While borders are most frequently thought about in terms of print design, they can be a valuable digital design tool as well. A good border defines a space so that users know where a design begins and ends. (Pretty simple, right?)