Need a happy family group to illustrate a holiday card? An office scene for a presentation? Or a set of animal characters for a children’s book? Adobe Illustrator makes it easy to create unique characters for books, presentations, and many other kinds of design projects, but designing them individually can take more time than you have. These character creation kits …

Making a Statement: The Use of Stacked Text Blocks in Web Design – It may not seem like much, but this design technique can have a large impact. Amino – A live CSS editor for Google Chrome. Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js – Examples of distorting text upon scrolling and mouse movement. The end of the celebrity designer – How …

It can be difficult to differentiate yourself in the real estate industry, but a beautiful website can certainly help.  Finding the perfect real estate theme is a challenge, considering the sheer number of themes available. That’s why we’ve curated a premier selection of our responsive WordPress real estate themes, so you can easily find the features you want along with an attractive …

One of today’s most popular design trends harks back to the art and science of yesterday’s medical world. Apothecary style is inspired by the delicate green and amber bottles of Renaissance apothecary shops, the colors of drying herbs in a wise woman’s cottage and the bold lettering on the sign for a 19th century medicine show. This unique vintage look …

Become the next hottest spot to grab a bite! Check out these amazing menu templates below! 28 New Restaurant and Cafe Menus for 2019 The restaurant of your dreams is missing just one special element: the perfect menu. So entice your customers with mouth-watering items and tasty aesthetics. Today we bring you another amazing set of premium templates from Envato …

What You’ll Be Creating Website banners: we see them every day, and they are a great addition to your marketing campaign. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a banner. Banner designs and banner templates are composed of a couple of key elements: an offer and a call to action. You can add your logo if you’d like, …

CSS layout has never been more powerful than now. The days of float hacks, margin magic, and all their fragile companions are behind us as our layout dreams are finally on the verge of coming true. Need to center an element? Easy peezy. Want a sticky footer? No sweat. What about achieving magazine-esque layouts? Getting there.  “CSS exclusions” is an …

For e-commerce websites, the design and layout of the site can have a huge impact on sales because of usability, in addition to just the importance of making a good first impression with new visitors. A well-designed e-commerce site will provide the user with a much more pleasant experience and will make it easier for them to browse, search, and …

Surreal Portrait Compositing in Photoshopwith Natalia Seth – PHLEARN To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Chapter 1 | Introduction 1 Videos (1:28m) 01 – What You Will Learn Aaron and Natalia describe what you will learn throughout this tutorial. Chapter 2 | Meet the Instructor 1 Videos (15:27m) …

As software evolves, we can find ourselves having to adapt to new ways of doing things. There’s a learning curve involved that, while frustrating at first, becomes second nature once we have put in the requisite practice. WordPress, however, has provided us with a choice. We can adapt to the new Gutenberg block editor, or we can stick with the …