Search Results For: design

Procreate Brushes / 5 Apr 2023

How to Blend in Procreate: Smudge Tool, Gaussian Blur, and Brushes

Blending is an essential technique in digital painting that allows artists to create smooth transitions between colors, add depth and texture, and achieve a more natural, realistic look in their artwork. Procreate, a popular digital painting app for the iPad, offers various tools and techniques for blending.

This article will discuss blending in Procreate, focusing on the Smudge tool, Gaussian Blur, and blending brushes.

Additionally, we will share some tips on blending effectively in Procreate to enhance your digital artwork.

PowerPoint Templates / 4 Apr 2023

10 Cool PowerPoint Tips and Tricks You (Probably) Didn’t Know About

PowerPoint is a versatile tool capable of many amazing tasks. It has lots of great features but unfortunately, most users aren’t even utilizing half of the software’s capabilities.

Today, we’re going to change that. In this guide, we share some of the best PowerPoint tips and tricks for doing cool things with the presentation maker.

You’ll learn cool tricks like inserting QR codes in PowerPoint slides, converting presentations to videos, removing the background of images, and much more.

These PowerPoint tips will not only allow you to design presentations more easily but they will also help impress your audience. Let’s dive in.

Font Collections / 3 Apr 2023

Choosing a Poster Font: 10 Tips & Ideas

Poster design can be some of the most fun you have as a designer. There’s nothing quite like seeing information for an event or concert hanging in a public location as you move by.

The key to these design projects is font selection. You need typefaces, colors, sizes, and scales that make content easy to read from a distance and up close also.

Here, we’re going to look at some tips and ideas for choosing a poster font so that your projects turn out amazing! (Plus, this post includes some design template examples with great typography that you can download from Envato Elements.)

Font Collections / 31 Mar 2023

20+ Best Fonts for Contracts & Legal Documents

Choosing a font for a legal document is not an easy task. Because the typography of each document has a direct impact on the legibility and tone of the legal documents you create.

If you were to use a font like comic sans to create a legal contract, your clients will never take you seriously. It will also affect your authority as a professional.

We’ll help you avoid making that mistake. In this post, we showcase some of the best fonts for legal documents. There are various styles of fonts in this list for lawyers, business owners, freelancers, and more.

These fonts will help you maintain professionalism across all your legal documents. Have a look. We also included a few free fonts to experiment with.

Adobe XD Templates / 29 Mar 2023

20+ Best Adobe XD Email Templates

Email is still the king of direct marketing for promoting products, services, and brands. But designing emails that get more clicks and views is the challenge.

The secret to winning this challenge is to use appropriate and relevant design layouts for your emails with the right colors, visuals, call to actions, and branding. It may sound like a difficult process but we have a very simple solution.

Start with an Adobe XD email template. When using a pre-designed email template, you can avoid having to start your design from scratch, save a ton of time, and make sure your emails look more attractive. And with Adobe XD, you can customize the email template for free.

We’ll help you find an amazing Adobe XD email template for your business emails and newsletters. Have a look and start downloading.

Keynote Templates / 29 Mar 2023

What Is Apple Keynote? (And 5 Tips for Getting Started)

Mac and iPad/iPhone users have probably seen the little blue presentation icon on the devices. But have you ever really used it? This icon is for Apple Keynote, a presentation tool that comes standard on all iOS devices.

Keynote is native to Mac, so you won’t find it on PC devices. It’s a tool that people tend to love once they make the switch from another type of presentation software. It’s focused on design, a polished presentation, and creating a really solid experience as you design your slides.

Today, we’re going to look at Apple Keynote—what it is and, and how to get started with this robust presentation tool.

Adobe XD Templates / 21 Mar 2023

20+ Adobe XD Mockups (Devices, Screens & More)

So, you’ve spent days working on a design project and now it’s time to present it to the client. But you’re not sure if you have the right mockup to showcase your design.
As designers, we’ve all been in this situation. Finding great mockups for each project can be a difficult process. Plus they can be quite expensive too. Today, we’re going to change that.

In this collection, we are featuring some of the best mockups you can use in Adobe XD. You can download all of these mockups for a single price by subscribing to Envato Elements. It will help you save a lot of money. Also, Adobe XD is free to use so you won’t have to buy an Adobe subscription to edit and use these mockups. It’s a win-win situation.

Let’s dive in and check out the mockup collection.

CV & Resume Templates / 21 Mar 2023

How Do You List Freelance Work on Your Resume? (We Have the Answer)

Congratulations, your freelance business is proving successful. But how do you handle talking about it or explaining freelance work to potential employers, or on your resume? It can be a hard subject to explain as a single entry on paper, and you don’t want freelance work to look like an employment gap.

There are some things you can do to on paper (and on LinkedIn) to help present freelance work in a way that is more understandable to others. The key for many freelancers – especially those working part-time – is remembering to include freelance work as part of your resume and design portfolio. Sometimes those jobs can be just the thing you need to help land the next big gig!

Font Collections / 20 Mar 2023

How to Choose the Perfect Font for Titles & Headlines

The right font choice for titles and headlines can significantly impact the visual appeal and effectiveness of your design work.

A well-chosen title font can capture your audience’s attention, establish hierarchy, and convey the intended message with clarity.

In this article, we will explore what a headline or title font is, tips for choosing a good headline or title font, examples of famous headlines and the fonts used in them, and advice on creating design work where the headline stands out and captures attention.

Mockup Templates / 16 Mar 2023

60+ iPad Mockup PSD & PNG Templates

Using an iPad mockup template is a great way to display your latest and greatest responsive website design or app interface. We’ve collected our favorite free iPad mockups, and a few premium options, to get you started.

We’ve scoured the web to find over a hundred different tablet and iPad mockups, in all shapes and sizes, that can make your app or website interface stand out.

They vary between photograph-based PSD iPad mockups, PNG templates, or vectors that can scale to any size.

Some are free, some cost a few dollars, but all of them are rather lovely!

Graphics / 14 Mar 2023

How + Why to Use a Website Wireframe Template

Wireframing is one of those design processes that happens organically and intentionally. How many times have you sketched an idea during a meeting? How many times have you created a presentable wireframe for a client meeting?

Both types of wireframes are equally important parts of the design and iteration process.

The latter takes a little more effort to create, and that’s where a wireframe template comes in. Here’s everything you need to know about using them effectively, and how they can help to save you time, improve the quality of your wireframes, and help you get your ideas down in a physical format.

Graphics / 14 Mar 2023

15+ Awesome Places to Download Free Vector Art

Despite what many would think, the term web designer does not always imply an artist. There are many very capable web developers and designers that are lucky to pull off a quality stick figure on most days. For those that are able to create complicated artwork, there are plenty of times when you’re up against a deadline need something generic.

For either of these situations, you can’t beat free vectors. Though the quality varies dramatically depending on the source, there’s no shortage of great work out there that you can download and use in your projects immediately. Below we’ll take a look at a collection of websites offering free vectors of various types.