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Photoshop Actions / 19 Aug 2024

20+ Architecture Actions, Effects & Presets (For Photoshop + Lightroom)

Architectural photography and design demand precision, clarity, and an eye for detail. The right actions, effects, and presets can dramatically enhance your work, bringing out the best in your images with just a few clicks.

In this post, we showcase a selection of the best architecture-focused actions, effects, and presets available for Photoshop and Lightroom. They are designed to enhance architectural elements, improve lighting and contrast, and add artistic flair to your photos and designs.

From dramatic blueprint-style sketch effects to bold black-and-white conversions, our collection covers a wide range of styles and techniques to suit various creative needs.

Business / 19 Aug 2024

What Is a Lookbook? (+ 20 Stunning Examples)

Whether you’re a designer wanting to show off work or have a request to create one for a client, a lookbook can be an effective way to showcase a variety of elements in a single design.

A lookbook is a portfolio of sorts and has wide application in a number of fields, including website design, graphic design, and development.

Here’s a guide to what a lookbook is, what to include in one when you start designing it, and some examples that are sure to help you find a little lookbook inspiration.

Premiere Pro Templates / 19 Aug 2024

20+ Best Color Grading Presets for Premiere Pro

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of color grading presets for Premiere Pro to achieve stunning, professional results.

Whether you’re working on a cinematic film, a vibrant music video, or a polished commercial, color grading is key to elevating your work and making it stand out.

Color grading is a crucial aspect of video production, adding depth, emotion, and visual consistency to your projects. It allows you to craft a specific mood, enhance storytelling, and create a signature look that resonates with your audience.

That’s where our collection of color grading Premiere Pro presets comes in. They offer a quick and effective solution to elevate your visuals with just a few clicks. Go ahead and try them out.

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.

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.

Keynote Templates / 15 Aug 2024

100+ Best Keynote Templates of 2024

Even though Apple’s Keynote app gives you plenty of tools and options for creating beautiful presentations, it can be tricky to find the time to build a beautiful, custom design. Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered with this collection of the best Keynote templates!

With these templates, you don’t have to spend hours designing presentation slides. You can simply edit the slides that have already been crafted by professional designers, customize charts, change colors, and voila! You have your own beautiful, unique Keynote presentation.

We picked out a few of the most professional-looking Keynote templates that’ll work perfectly for your next presentation (and we’ve also collected some tips for using Keynote templates to help you as well!). And if you’re not sure whether to use Keynote or Powerpoint, we also have a quick look at 3 reasons to choose Keynote over PowerPoint.

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.

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.

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.

Photoshop Actions / 13 Aug 2024

80+ Best Photoshop Actions & Effects of 2024

Adobe Photoshop Actions are a great feature of the app, allowing you to create a process or workflow, record how it worked, and then easily repeat the process again for other photographs or design elements.

Today we’ve collected some of the best Photoshop actions out there, for photographers and graphic designers alike.

They cost just a few dollars but give you an incredibly powerful toolkit to easily repeat complex and intricate processes.

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.

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.