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5 Tips for Working With Seamless Patterns (+ Where to Find Them)

Background Textures / 16 Aug 2024

5 Tips for Working With Seamless Patterns (+ Where to Find Them)

Whether you’re designing fabrics, wallpapers, or packaging designs, seamless patterns will always play a role in making your designs stand out.

Creating seamless patterns, however, can be challenging. You need to arrange all the elements correctly, align them perfectly, and find the right balance to create a repeatable pattern. And it’s no easy task.

Today, we will help you get started with a few useful tips on how to work with seamless patterns as well as mistakes to avoid. Also, don’t forget to check out the list of websites for finding seamless patterns to download.

20+ Glitter Transitions, Reveals & Openers (For After Effects & Premiere Pro)

After Effects Templates / 15 Aug 2024

20+ Glitter Transitions, Reveals & Openers (For After Effects & Premiere Pro)

Today, we bring you a curated collection of the best glitter transitions, reveals, and openers for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Glitter transitions, reveals, and openers bring a sense of magic and elegance to any project, making your content stand out with a professional and polished look. With the right template, you can easily add these effects to your videos in After Effects and Premiere Pro, enhancing your storytelling and engaging your audience like never before.

Here, you’ll find various types of sparkling effects and animations. From subtle sparkles to bold, shimmering displays, our selection offers a range of styles to suit various creative needs and project types. Whether you’re creating a glamorous event recap, a festive commercial, or an eye-catching YouTube intro, these glitter effects will help your videos shine.

60+ Simple PowerPoint Templates (With Clutter-Free Design)

PowerPoint Templates / 14 Aug 2024

60+ Simple PowerPoint Templates (With Clutter-Free Design)

When it comes to creating PowerPoint slideshows, using a simple PowerPoint template can be a key approach. It may seem like a good idea to throw the kitchen sink: data, stats, charts, and shapes into every slide, but you’ll never be able to win over your audience with a cluttered slideshow design.

That’s why professionals always use simple slide designs to highlight only the most important parts of a presentation. Of course, you don’t have to be an expert designer to create these professional slideshows. There are pre-made templates you can download and customize with a few clicks.

To help you get started, we handpicked a collection of simple PowerPoint templates with clean and clutter-free designs for creating professional looking PowerPoint slideshow presentations.

We’re also sharing some simple presentation tips to get you started with a clear, simple talk.

20+ Best Italian Fonts (Italy & Vintage Style Typefaces)

Font Collections / 14 Aug 2024

20+ Best Italian Fonts (Italy & Vintage Style Typefaces)

Italian fonts are renowned for their graceful curves, intricate details, and rich historical influences. They can instantly transport your audience to the romantic streets of Rome or the bustling piazzas of Florence.

In this collection, we explore the best Italian and vintage-style typefaces for adding a subtle aesthetic appeal to your design projects. Our collection spans a range of styles, ensuring you find the perfect font to complement your design vision.

From the grandeur of Renaissance-inspired serifs to the playful allure of mid-century modern scripts, these typefaces bring a touch of Italy’s artistic heritage to your designs. Check out all the fonts below and don’t forget to download the free Italy fonts as well.

35+ Car & Van Decal and Wrap Mockup Templates

Mockup Templates / 13 Aug 2024

35+ Car & Van Decal and Wrap Mockup Templates

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of van and car mockup templates. You can use these mockups to showcase your car wrap and decal designs like a pro.

Vehicles play an important role in the branding process for many businesses. Whether it’s promoting the brand through a company car or delivery van, they offer exposure and opportunities for representing your business to local audiences.

If you’re working on such a car decal design, make sure to grab a car mockup from our collection to present your design to clients in a more realistic way. We made sure to pick many different types of vehicles for this list so you’ll find plenty of options to choose from. Let’s dive in.

How to Use AI in Illustrator: Tips, Tools & Techniques

AI Tools / 13 Aug 2024

How to Use AI in Illustrator: Tips, Tools & Techniques

The days of buying illustrations, searching for the perfect pattern, and researching fonts are over. Now you can create all that and more using AI right inside the Adobe Illustrator app.

Adobe introduced a bunch of amazing new AI tools and features for its software back in 2023 with the Adobe MAX event, including several great AI functionalities for Adobe Illustrator.

Those AI features are now finally out of beta and available to all Illustrator users with even further enhancements. Today, we explore some of these cool new AI tools and see how to use AI in Illustrator to make your workflow smoother, faster, and more efficient.

Not to mention that with the help of these generative AI tools, you’ll be able to save a lot of money that is otherwise spent on buying vector illustrations, patterns, icons, and fonts.

20+ Best Magic Fonts for Magical Designs

Font Collections / 12 Aug 2024

20+ Best Magic Fonts for Magical Designs

Magical fonts evoke a sense of mystery, adventure, and enchantment, making them perfect for any project that aims to transport viewers to a fantastical realm.

In this post, we present a selection of the best magic fonts featuring various designs from intricate script fonts that mimic the handwriting of wizards to bold typefaces that exude otherworldly elegance, our collection offers a range of styles to suit various design needs.

Whether you’re working on invitations for a fantasy-themed event, designing a logo for a magical brand, or creating spellbinding graphics, these fonts will help you create truly magical designs. Have a look.

20+ Best 3D Photoshop Actions for Stunning Depth Effects

Photoshop Actions / 12 Aug 2024

20+ Best 3D Photoshop Actions for Stunning Depth Effects

3D effects can bring a new level of dynamism and interest to your designs, making them stand out and capture attention. However, creating these effects from scratch can be time-consuming and challenging.

That’s where Photoshop actions come in. With pre-made PS actions, you can automate complex steps and apply professional-grade 3D effects quickly and easily. In this post, we bring you a whole bunch of them just for you.

From subtle enhancements that add a touch of dimension to bold transformations that completely redefine your visuals, our collection covers a wide range of styles and applications to suit any creative need. Check them all out below.

35+ Best InDesign Proposal Templates (Business + Project Proposals)

InDesign Templates / 9 Aug 2024

35+ Best InDesign Proposal Templates (Business + Project Proposals)

Are you looking for the perfect InDesign proposal templates to elevate your business or project proposition? Look no further! Our curated selection of templates, both free and premium, caters to professionals and designers who understand the value of an impressive proposal.

One of the main advantages of using InDesign for crafting business proposals is the customization it offers, and combined with the right template, you can create a compelling proposal. Our assorted range of InDesign business proposal templates are tailor-made, easy to understand, cohesive, and designed to showcase your proposal at its best.

Not only business proposals, but our list also covers an array of InDesign project proposal templates specially designed to spellbind project stakeholders. Accentuate the important details and make an impression that lasts with our compilation. Check them all out below.

Color Correction vs. Color Grading: What’s the Difference

DaVinci Resolve Templates / 9 Aug 2024

Color Correction vs. Color Grading: What’s the Difference

Color correction and color grading are two of the most important processes used in both photography and videography for visualizing a designer’s creative vision.

It’s through these creative processes that world-renowned photographers and Hollywood movie directors create art that conveys different moods and stories. Needless to say, every designer and editor must have a proper understanding of these concepts in order to create designs, photos, and videos that shape the viewer’s experience.

In this post, we take an in-depth look at color correction and color grading to help you understand what these processes are really about. And how to use them effectively in your workflow with tips and examples.

Let’s get started.

10+ Best Figma Fonts for UI Projects (And How to Add Them)

Figma Templates / 7 Aug 2024

10+ Best Figma Fonts for UI Projects (And How to Add Them)

Typography is one of the most important aspects of UI design. Although most of the time, users never really notice it since designers do a great job of finding the perfect font to offer the best user experience.

But, only the designers know how much work they had to put in or how many iterations of the design they had to create to find that perfect font for a UI project.

Typography is extremely important, not just for apps like Twitter and Facebook, but for every user interface. Because text takes the center stage of every design. Without the right font, your entire UI design will be in jeopardy.

We want to help you find the best font for your designs with this Figma fonts list. These fonts have cleaner and simpler designs to enhance readability and overall offer a more improved user experience.

How to Use Canva AI: Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Software / 6 Aug 2024

How to Use Canva AI: Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Canva is now much more powerful and useful than ever before thanks to its AI-powered tools. If you haven’t used Canva’s AI tools yet, you’re missing out.

With more than 175 million monthly active users, Canva is one of the most popular platforms among freelancers, marketers, designers, and social media users for quickly creating various types of graphics.

Canva is a dynamic platform and it only became more powerful with the addition of these new AI tools. Now, it’s much easier and simpler to create unique graphics, social media posts, videos, presentations, and documents using the platform.

In this post, we’ll show you how to use Canva AI tools with helpful tips and ideas. Let’s dive in.