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Procreate Brushes / 6 Dec 2024

Procreate vs. Photoshop: Should You Make the Switch?

Designers are in love with Procreate. The app built for creative professionals makes designing on an iPad easier and more efficient in a completely new way. But can a $9.99 app be a realistic Photoshop competitor?

For some, the answer is a definite yes.

Here are five reasons Procreate could become your go-to design app (and five reasons why it might not). Plus, an introduction to what Procreate is, and why it might be the perfect app for you.

Photoshop Actions / 11 Nov 2024

How to Vectorize an Image in Photoshop (Step by Step Guide)

Even though Photoshop is a raster graphics software, it has many tools and tricks to support vector images. One of the best tricks is its ability to vectorize raster images.

This is a very useful trick every artist and designer should learn to use. For example, if you have a low-resolution logo or an image that you want to scale without making it blurry, you can vectorize the image in Photoshop to resize it freely.

In this quick guide, we’ll show you exactly how to vectorize an image in Photoshop. It’s a very simple method, you’ll see.

Reviews / 10 Sep 2024

Webflow vs Squarespace: Which Website Builder Should You Use?

Squarespace dominated the online website-building market for quite a while. Now, more platforms, such as Webflow, are offering competitive features and functionality, challenging Squarespace and other platforms.

One of the biggest complaints Squarespace users had was its limited customizability. Webflow aims to solve that problem but at a cost.

Today, we take a closer look at these two giant platforms to see which is best. Both Webflow and Squarespace come with unique features that set them apart from each other.

Which website builder should you use to build your website? Is Webflow better than Squarespace? Which platform offers the best benefits at the right price? Let’s find out.

Lightroom Presets / 27 Aug 2024

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

Adobe introduced several innovative AI features to the Lightroom app over the past few months, making your photo editing workflow much faster than ever before.

Today, we’re taking a look at how to use AI in Lightroom by exploring the best AI tools and techniques you should be utilizing in your workflow.

Adobe Lightroom is the go-to software among photographers, editors, and even social media influencers. It makes editing photos an effortless experience, especially when processing photos in batches.

With the addition of the new generative AI features, Lightroom is now more powerful and easy to use. In fact, the photo edits that normally require Photoshop can now be done directly inside the Lightroom app using the new AI tools.

Here are some of the best AI tools and features in Lightroom and how to use them.

Figma Templates / 16 Aug 2024

How to Use Figma for Web Design: 10 Tips & Ideas

Figma is a powerhouse of a platform for web design as it allows you to not just design but also test and prototype interactive versions of your websites among many other things.

What makes Figma better than other design tools? How can you leverage Figma to create more innovative website designs? In today’s post, we explore these topics to find the answers.

Instead of walking you through a step-by-step process of using Figma for web design, we wanted to highlight some of the great features and functionalities of Figma. These features will help improve your design process and workflow to do better work more efficiently.

Let’s dive in.

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.

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.

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.

Shopify Themes / 30 Jul 2024

How to Add Reviews to Shopify (+ Supercharge Sales)

Adding a reviews section to your product pages is one of the first things you should do when building a Shopify store. In this quick guide, we’ll show you how to do exactly that.

Product reviews not only boost the authority of your website but also make your products look more trustworthy with social proof. It’s a highly effective strategy you can use to make your store and products stand out from the crowd.

Shopify does not have a built-in product review system for stores. You have to use a third-party app to add that functionality to your online store. Don’t worry, it’s a simple process and only takes a few clicks. Here’s how.

Shopify Themes / 9 Jul 2024

How to Connect Shopify to Instagram (+ Sell on Insta)

A whopping 70% of Instagram users shop on Instagram. If you still don’t have a business page with a Shop on Instagram, you’re missing out.

Don’t worry, setting up your Instagram shop is a simple process and in this guide, we’ll show you how it’s done.

Instagram allows you to setup a shop to sell products directly on the platform. More than 25 million brands and businesses are already taking advantage of this feature.

The easiest way to setup a shop on Instagram is through Shopify. In this post, we’ll show you how to connect Shopify to Instagram to add your products and create your shop on the photo-blogging platform.

Let’s get started.

Affinity Designer Templates / 28 Jun 2024

Affinity Designer vs Illustrator: Pros & Cons Compared (Updated for 2025)

Adobe Illustrator dominated the vector art and illustration world for more than three decades with its wide array of features and smooth functionality.

However, with recent changes Adobe has been making to its subscription plans and terms of service, many artists have been looking for better alternatives. Affinity Designer is one of the best Adobe Illustrator alternatives that comes on top of the list.

Affinity Designer has all the best features of Adobe Illustrator, minus the fancy AI tools and the expensive subscription plans. But, is it powerful enough to provide all the tools you need to do your professional work? Does it have all the essential features of Illustrator?

Let’s find the answers in this comparison by taking a closer look at the best features of both software as well as their pros and cons.

Software / 21 Jun 2024

Headless vs Traditional CMS (Pros & Cons for Web Designers)

The battle between headless and traditional content management systems (CMS) is one of the biggest debates going on in the web design industry.

While some web designers hail headless CMS as the future of web design, others defend the ease-of-use features of the traditional CMS.

The main differences between these CMSs are flexibility and ease of use. With headless CMS options, designers have the option to choose a front-end framework they want to create more flexible designs. With traditional CMS, building and managing an entire website is much easier.

But which CMS is best? What are their pros and cons? Which one should you use for your project?

In this post, we answer these questions by closely examining both headless and traditional CMSs. Let’s see what are the benefits and downsides of using these content management systems.