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AI Tools / 4 Apr 2025

How to Create AI Images With Envato ImageGen

Envato ImageGen is a powerful AI image generator that allows you to create impressive art, illustrations, and graphics using text prompts.

In this guide, we take a closer look at Envato ImageGen to see what this AI image generator is truly capable of.

Today, you can find so many different AI image generators online. While a handful of these tools can give you amazing results, most AI tools are terrible at bringing your ideas to life.

So what makes Envato ImageGen different? Can you actually generate good images using this tool? How much does it cost?

Let’s find out.

AI Tools / 24 Mar 2025

How to Edit Images With Envato ImageEdit

Envato ImageEdit is an AI tool that allows you to edit, expand, crop, and enhance your photos with just one click.

With ImageEdit, you can save time spent on doing repetitive tasks like removing backgrounds, erasing objects from photos, and much more.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to use this AI tool to edit photos, create cool graphics, and photo manipulations, without having to download and install additional software. And it doesn’t require any graphic design skills at all!

Let’s get started.

Photoshop Brushes / 25 Jul 2023

30+ Brushes and Images for Creating Grungy Edges

Creating complex edges manually in Photoshop can be an arduous task. Fortunately, there are tons of free brushes and images online that will make this process a breeze.

Giving your design a unique edge can go a long way towards framing the rest of the graphic, and creating an effect that stands out.

If you’re going “grungy”, try to make sure that this effect extends across every part of your image.

Keep reading to see our collection of 20 brushes and images with torn, burned and grungy edges!

PowerPoint Templates / 14 Jul 2023

How to Flip & Mirror Images in PowerPoint (In 4 Quick Steps)

Images play a crucial role in making a PowerPoint presentation visually appealing and engaging. However, there might be times when you need to flip or mirror an image to make it fit better with your presentation’s layout or design. Thankfully, PowerPoint provides a straightforward way to do this.

Whether you need to create a mirror image for a creative effect or simply want to flip an image to ensure it aligns with the text correctly, the process is simple and quick. Even if you’re a PowerPoint novice, you’ll be able to master this skill in no time.

In this article, we’ll guide you through the steps of flipping and mirroring images in PowerPoint. You’ll learn how to manipulate images to suit your presentation, enhancing the visual impact and professional look of your work.

InDesign Templates / 4 May 2023

How to Insert Pictures and Images in InDesign

InDesign is a powerful tool for creating visually stunning layouts, and incorporating images is an essential part of the design process.

In this article, we’ll show you how to insert pictures and images into your InDesign projects, as well as how to manage, resize, and format them for the best results.

We’ll also share four tips on how use clipping paths for images, organise your media more effectively, and use frame fitting options.

Trends / 14 Jul 2020

Design Trend: Strong Hero Images With Subtle Text

This website design trend is all about contrast… or the lack thereof. More designs are popping up that have large and stunning hero image areas, but text elements are much more subtle. This is a shift from oversized hero area text that has been big (literally) for some time.

These designs make you look because of this difference. It establishes a sense of contrast with other websites, while maybe not creating so much contrast in the design itself.

Let’s take a look at websites with strong hero images and subtle text to help you generate inspiration for your next project.

PowerPoint Templates / 13 Sep 2019

How to Compress PowerPoint Presentation Images

Whether you want to share a PowerPoint presentation with a colleague via email or upload it to a website, one of the best ways to reduce the size of a PowerPoint file is to compress its images.

Visuals play a key role in a presentation. Especially today, audiences respond well to images and graphics better than text. As a result, we tend to add as many images as we can into a slideshow to make it more effective.

However, it also comes with a disadvantage. With more images, your PowerPoint presentation gets heavier in size. And that can be an issue when you’re trying to share that presentation online.

In this guide, we’ll show you an easy fix you can use to compress images in your PowerPoint presentations to reduce the file size without affecting the quality of the images.

CSS / 10 Jul 2019

Inner Shadows in CSS: Images, Text and Beyond

Shadows in CSS are quick and easy, whether you’re slapping on a box-shadow or a text-shadow. But how comfortable are you with inner shadows? Can you pull off an inset box-shadow? How do you do the same thing on some text?

Today we’re going to learn some really simple inset shadow techniques that you can pull off with just a few lines of code. I’ll walk you through both the box-shadow and text-shadow syntax and how to change them to pull off an inset shadows.

Inspiration / 20 Sep 2016

20+ Stunning Hero Images for a Creative Website

What do Salesforce, TaskRabbit, Tesla, and Pocket websites have in common? They all rock hero images.

Make no mistake, the hero image web design trend is still very much alive. What is a hero image? Well, it’s basically a giant banner-style image that takes over the top half of the page. The main goal of this design strategy is to quickly grab the user’s attention while showcasing some of the features of a product or a service at the same time.

According to research, colored visuals increase people’s willingness to read a piece of content by 80%. It’s one of the reasons why placing a hero image above the fold has been found to be quite effective in increasing website engagement.

Graphics / 10 Aug 2015

Blurred Images in Web Design: How to Make Them Work

It’s an undeniable fact: using blurred images is a trending web design technique in 2015. It seems like everywhere you look there’s some element of blur.

But this is not a solution to some of your photo problems. It’s a distinct technique that takes practice to perfect and attention to detail to get it right. So before you jump on the trend, think about the options for using blurred images to decide if it is right for you and how you can make the best use of this technique in your projects.

Inspiration / 16 Mar 2015

Designing Without Images: Making Typography Work for You

You don’t need a great image for every design project. In fact, you can create a great design with no images at all. It’s a trend that is gaining a lot of momentum as typography-focused projects can be used to stand out against a crowded sea of hero images, video and animations.

All you have to do is think like a typographer. Designing without images takes focus, vision and a clear understanding of design and typography principles to create a piece of art that is totally comprised of text.

Layouts / 9 Feb 2015

Looking at Images: Phi Grid vs. Rule of Thirds

When you are thinking about images, do you consider framing and the shape of the crop? The answer does not lie in the shape of the box you just created on a design canvas. It has a lot to do with the content of the image itself.

How you frame and crop images can impact engagement and even how a person looking at the image feels about it (whether they know it or not). Here, we’re going to look at two different ways of thinking about images – using the phi grid and rule of thirds — and how you can apply them to your work.