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8 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers

Posted By fershid 1725 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Chrome has a 63.69% market share and most designers prefer the Google-powered browser for its speed, UI, and the ability to add useful extensions.

Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of Chrome extensions that can help you find design inspiration, identify fonts and colors from web pages, view CSS, take full page screenshots, generate palettes, and more. Check them out here.

The Most Popular Brand Colours In Each Industry And Their Impact On Consumers

Posted By fershid 1727 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Colour psychology has become an increasingly important part of branding, identity and logo design for businesses as each shade has a specific psychological impact on the consumer they are targeting.

UK insurance intermediary Towergate Insurance analysed 520 company logos in a variety of sectors and compiled them into an infographic to determine which industry favours which colour(s). The graphic also shares information on how these colour choices affect consumer psychology and behaviour. Check it out here.

32 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers

Posted By fershid 1782 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Stuck in the middle of tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your client being an unreasonable prick? Has your boss put the entire workload on you? If yes, then now is the time to indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day.

Memes have been scientifically proven to reduce work-related burnout by upto 57%. In a study of 480 designers and developers, neuroscientists found that memes stimulate the release of endorphins that create a sense of well-being within the body. More importantly, everything you have read above is horse-shit. Enjoy this meme collection before your boss comes back from lunch.

11 Great Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1783 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - One of the best ways to tell an amateur designer from a seasoned professional is by their font pairings. A good designer knows which fonts complement each other, and how to strike typographical balance by using contrast and hierarchy. Here’s a list of 10 golden rules of typography that’ll help you get it right.

If you’re looking for examples of good font pairings, Kalyspo Designs has come up with a list of 11 excellent combinations that will make your designs look professional and aesthetically pleasing. These include free fonts from Google Fonts and a few other popular choices. Check them out here.

11 Design Tools to Create Amazing Visual Content for Your Website

Posted By supermonitoring 1800 days ago on Design

https://www.supermonitoring.com - Here are 11 of the best tools that will help you save a lot of money while being able to increase customer engagement with your content.

Free And Cheaper Options To Photoshop, Illustrator, And Other Adobe Creative Software

Posted By fershid 1802 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Freelance illustrator, artist, and author Michael Sexton has compiled a list of free and cheaper (single purchase) alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and Audition. Michael created the list after Adobe’s recent price hike of its photography plan from $9.99 to $19.99. After an outcry from creatives, the price was reverted back to $9.99.

But Michael believes a price rise is inevitable as Adobe has roped enough people into subscriptions. He created this handy little graphic (in Affinity Designer) to help out fellow designers. We’ve added links to the mentioned programs below the graphic. Check them out here.

10 online tools that will help you create a great logo for your brand

Posted By supermonitoring 1810 days ago on Design

https://www.supermonitoring.com - While you might have come across several options for brand logo designing tools across the Internet, we’ve tailor-made a list of the best ones online.

32 Beautiful Color Palettes With Their Corresponding Gradient Palettes

Posted By fershid 1815 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Mr.Pugo is a handy resource that shares beautiful color palettes (with hex codes) and also their corresponding gradient palettes. We’ve shortlisted some of the best ones in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, and current design trends. Check them out here.

21 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1816 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - As a designer, no matter how many fonts you have on your system, you always want more. You might use just a fraction of those fonts on a regular basis, but you need to have a gorgeous collection in your repository at all times. And what’s the one thing designers love more than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that’s available for FREE!

Today’s post is a collection of 21 gorgeous free fonts that’ll make every designer drool. The list includes all types of typefaces – serif, sans serif, script, handwritten, rounded, geometric, etc. Check them out here.

What Is The Golden Ratio, And How To Use It In Graphic Design

Posted By fershid 1821 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - The Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Section or Divine Proportion, is a mathematical ratio of 1:1.618 based on the Fibonacci sequence. It can be found in nature (flower petals, seeds, shells), in food (artichokes, broccoli, pineapple), and in the human anatomy.

The Golden Ratio can also be found in art (Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man) and architecture (Pyramids, Acropolis, Notre Dame, Taj Mahal). When applied to design, photography, and typography, it makes compositions look natural, balanced, and aesthetically pleasing.

3 Designer Friends Created An Alphabet Series Using Logos They’ve Designed Over The Years

Posted By fershid 1824 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Three graphic designers, colleagues, and friends, Alex Tass, Dalius Stuoka, and Deividas Bielskis decided to put together an A-Z alphabet series made from logo symbols, lettermarks, and monograms they’ve created over the years. All three designers have been in the industry for over 10 years, and have worked with a variety of clients, brands, and agencies.

For this project, each designer submitted one design per letter, creating a trio of symbols for each letter. The series showcases some excellent logo designs that use colors, typography, and negative space aesthetically and effectively. Check it out here.

31 Beautiful Gradient Logos For Design Inspiration

Posted By fershid 1829 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - When Apple launched iOS 7 in 2014, it not only changed the face of UI design, but also branding, graphic and logo design. Skeuomorphic interfaces and glossy app icons were out. Flat design, vibrant colors and gradients were in. In 2016, when Instagram came up with a bright new look and multicolored logo, a vast majority of its users hated the vivid gradients and demanded the company switch back to the vintage camera icon.

Fact is, today bright, bold gradients are one of the hottest design trends in graphic and logo design. We’re seeing more and more brands, specially start ups, incorporating gradients in their logos and app icons. When implemented correctly, gradients can make your logo look modern, contemporary, and impactful. Factors that should be considered before you opt for a ...

Need Images For Your Project? Create Your Own With This Useful Drag-And-Drop Tool

Posted By fershid 1837 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Design resource site Icons8 has come up with a handy web app called Photo Creator that lets you create realistic stock photos using drag-and-drop images of models, objects, and backgrounds.

The app features over thousands of images with transparent backgrounds, so you can place one over the other and create your own composite in any size or aspect ratio.

You can rotate, scale, and flip each individual image. You can also move objects from foreground to background. Once you’re done, you can download your final image in PNG or PSD format.

Adobe After Effects Has A Powerful New Tool That Can Remove Any Object From Your Video

Posted By fershid 1839 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool in Photoshop that lets you remove unwanted objects from your photos. But what if you want to remove objects from a video? You’ll need to edit each frame individually and then stitch them back together.

Well, all that has changed now in the latest release of After Effects (16.1), which includes a powerful new Content-Aware Fill feature that lets you remove unwanted objects like boom mics, logos, and even people from your footage.

Regular readers of Digital Synopsis will remember when Adobe first shared a teaser of this technology back in October 2017 under the name Project Cloak. The software giant has now released the Sensei-driven feature that will come as a boon to editors and production artists. You can watch the technology in action below, alo

43 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1844 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Awsmcolor is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. At the end of every month, they feature the top nine palettes for that month. If you create something exceptional using their palettes, you can get featured on their page as well.

We’ve shortlisted some of the best color palettes on the Awsmcolor page in terms of usability, aesthetic appeal, and current design trends. Check them out here.

9 Things You Should Never Say To A Designer

Posted By fershid 1849 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - If you’ve been in the creative business for a few years, you’ve definitely had your share of funny/dumb comments made by clients who don’t have a damn clue, or clients who wanted to freeload, or clients who wanted to micromanage the entire design process.

In the interest of designers everywhere, Weekly Design Grind has compiled a list of nine things clients (and everyone else) should never say to designers. Check them out here.

NVIDIA Develops Incredible AI That Can Turn Rough Sketches Into Landscape Images

Posted By fershid 1855 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Researchers at NVIDIA have developed a deep learning model that can turn rough doodles into photorealistic landscapes using generative adversarial networks, or GANs. The interactive app has been named GauGAN, after the post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.

The deep learning model has been trained on a million images. When you draw the shapes of the objects you want, the neural network is able to fill in the details, texture, color, reflections, and shadows, based on what it has learned from those real images.

GauGAN could be a powerful tool for architects, urban planners, landscape designers, game developers, and more. Using this ‘smart paintbrush’, professionals will be able to develop prototypes, and make rapid changes to a synthetic scene with ease. Check it out here.

41 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1857 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Colours.cafe is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. They also hold design challenges in which users have to use a specific palette to create illustrations and calligraphy. The best works are then featured on their page.

We’ve shortlisted some of the best color palettes on the Colours.cafe page in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, and current design trends. Check them out here.