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Reviews / 14 Jun 2022

6 Reasons to Try Shutterstock in 2025

Almost every designer needs stock photos and videos to complete projects. The tough part can be finding the right service with great visuals that don’t look like typical stock photography.

Shutterstock is the answer for many design professionals. The service has a ton of video and image assets that are top quality and will help your project shine.

If you haven’t looked at Shutterstock before or maybe want to try again, here are six reasons to give it a try (with examples of things you’ll find on the site).

Inspiration / 8 Jun 2022

20+ Best Magazine Templates With Modern + Creative Cover Layouts

Whether it’s print or digital, magazines are still one of the best forms of entertainment and marketing.

There are actually more than 7,400 consumer magazines in the US alone. Believe it or not, the numbers are growing every year.

If you’re planning to launch a new magazine, keep in mind that competition is fierce. Coming up with a great-looking user-friendly design that sets your magazine apart from the competition will be your first challenge.

To help you overcome this challenge, we gathered a collection of modern and creative magazine templates that you can download and use right away. See if you can find a design for your new magazine.

Business Templates / 1 Jun 2022

20+ Event & Sponsorship Proposal Templates

Writing a winning proposal to land sponsors for an event can be a challenging task. But this process gets much easier when you have the right template to get started with.

Using a great-looking proposal template, you can write an event or sponsorship proposal much more easily by planning and designing your content to fit the template design.

Today, we bring you a collection of event proposal and sponsorship proposal templates to help get a head start on your proposals. These templates feature fully customizable designs so you won’t have to worry about wasting time coming up with a great design for the proposal brochure.

We also included a few PowerPoint templates and useful tips for writing proposals. Be sure to check them all out.

Brochure Templates / 30 May 2022

45+ Best Lookbook & Catalog Templates (Free & Premium)

Lookbooks and catalogs are an important element of promoting a business. They help you not only to showcase your products and services to customers but also to build trust and establish your brand.

Today, we share with you a way to create more professional and attractive lookbooks and catalogs at a very low cost using pre-made templates. With the help of lookbook and catalog templates, you can create amazing-looking brochures for your business without needing to hire expensive design agencies.

We handpicked some of the best catalog templates that suit all kinds of businesses and professionals. Whether you’re a business or a freelancer working on a catalog design, these templates will help you design a more effective brochure with minimum effort. Take a look.

Lightroom Presets / 27 May 2022

How to Blur a Background in Lightroom (Step by Step Guide)

The blurred background effect is a popular trick used in photo editing to highlight and make the portrait stand out from the background.

This effect is widely used in fashion and wedding photography. It works best for portraits as it makes portraits pop from the background. While the effect is best created with your camera, you can also replicate it with Lightroom.

In this quick guide, we’ll show you how to blur background in Lightroom to recreate the same effect in your own portrait photos.

Let’s get started!

App Templates / 24 May 2022

20+ Best React Native App Templates 2025

If you’re thinking about finally building your own mobile app, React Native is one of the best platforms you can use to make your project a reality.

One of the best things about using the framework is how flexible and easy it is to use, especially including the ability to use pre-built app templates.

With React app templates, you can get a head start in your app development projects by getting your hands on a pre-built app framework. These templates allow you to easily save days or even weeks’ worth of time that otherwise normally goes into coding an app.

In this collection, you can find some of the best React and React Native app templates we’ve found online. You can actually download these templates and start building your own apps right away. Have a look.

Affinity Designer Templates / 23 May 2022

30+ Best Affinity Designer Brushes

Affinity Designer is rapidly growing and winning over the hearts of many designers as one of the best alternatives to Adobe Illustrator. It’s not only affordable but also keeps getting better with new feature updates and community support.

In this post, we wanted to highlight a great feature of Affinity Designer—brushes. Much like Photoshop and Illustrator, Affinity Designer also supports third-party brush packs. If you can find a great brush pack, you can import it in Affinity Designer to create more amazing art.

To show you how easy it is to find great brushes for Affinity Designer, we handpicked some of the best Affinity Designer brushes that you can download right now. Have a look.

Flyer Templates / 23 May 2022

50+ Business Flyer Templates (Word & PSD)

Today we’re bringing you a collection of the best business flyer templates to help you design professional flyers to promote your business and upcoming events.

Flyers are an important part of promoting a business. Whether it’s a business conference, a networking event, or even promoting a service, you need a perfectly designed flyer to attract the attention of your customers and build more awareness for your business.

Thanks to these easy to use templates, you’ll be able to design a professional looking flyer for any type of an occasion without any expert graphic design skills. This collection includes both Photoshop and MS Word templates, and several free business flyer tempaltes as well. Have a look and see if you can find a flyer template for your business.

Need a few more design pointers? Our business flyer design tips should be a useful starting point.

Graphics / 23 May 2022

Brutalism: A New Trend in Web Design

Some designs aren’t polished and clean. They are rough, jarring and ragged. Yet they still work and communicate effectively. This class of websites makes up the raw trend called brutalism.

While it is somewhat new to web concepts, it’s been around for decades as a popular technique for posters and art in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Today’s brutalism is starkly different from what you are used to seeing … and that’s why it’s likely to catch your attention. Let’s take a look at what it is (and I’ll share why I’m already over it!)

Instagram Templates / 16 May 2022

30+ Unique Instagram Layout Ideas & Concepts

One of the latest trends on Instagram is using the account feed to create unique designs to make each channel more memorable and attractive. While browsing Instagram, we came across many different styles of feed and post layouts featuring puzzles and grid designs.

This trend is a great way to make your profiles and Instagram pages stand out from the crowd. And offer a unique experience for the followers to browse your posts as well as to grab their attention. If you’re thinking about creating a unique Instagram layout for your own account, we have a few creative ideas for you.

In this post, we share a few Instagram layout ideas and themes for all kinds of Instagram account feeds and posts. The best part is the examples we feature are templates you can download and use to create similar layouts without an effort. See for yourself.

Trends / 16 May 2022

Design Trend: Animated Hero Elements

Motion is everywhere in website design. From full-on video to more subtle animations, these elements are a valuable tool in generating user interest and engagement. It can help you follow a trend, capture attention, or offer a more branded experience for your site.

Animated hero elements are an almost obvious trend, but there’s a lot of variance in how it’s done and what degree of success it may have.

Here, we’ll look at this website design trend, examples, and how to make it work for you.

Trends / 12 May 2022

Design Trend: Large Typography Scales

Words on the web just keep getting bigger and bigger. And that might be a good thing.

One of the biggest trends in website design right now is large typography scales. We’re not just talking bigger text in the hero image anymore. We are seeing larger type options for every part of the website design.

The result? Maybe a more readable web experience, and one that works in a better way, more often, for more people.

Here’s a look at the trend, with several examples to help you see large type in action!