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Learn In One Minute How To Wrap Text Around Any Image In Photoshop

Posted By fershid 1965 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - How do you wrap text around images in Photoshop? Do you manually adjust the length of each line?

In this one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you a simple technique to wrap text around any object, image, or shape, using a custom path created with the Pen tool.

With this technique, you don’t have to manually adjust the length of each line. Your path will automatically confine the text within its boundaries. Watch here.

32 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers

Posted By fershid 1791 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.

Designers, You’ll Love These $5 Keychains Of Popular Graphic Design Softwares And Memes

Posted By fershid 2055 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Singapore-based graphic artist Yu Xin has come up with a cool series of $5 keychains for graphic designers, based on popular Adobe programs and their interfaces. If you’ve ever worked with a demanding client, you’ll relate to the meme-based Photoshop and Illustrator keychains that feature PS and AI file icons with funny filenames.

The idea came to Xin when she was working on a design project that involved a significant number of revisions. She decided to channel her frustrations into creating an initial batch of 10 keychains for each design that were quickly bought by friends and colleagues.

300 Beautiful Color Gradients For All Your Design Needs

Posted By fershid 1908 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Vibrant colors and gradients are one of the major trends in graphic, web, and UI design nowadays. To make life easier for designers everywhere, Paris-based graphic designer Leo Simon has compiled a set of 300 beautiful gradients into a Photoshop gradient file (GRD), available for free.

You Can Now Fine People For Design Offenses With This Typographic Ticket Book

Posted By fershid 2015 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - The designers at type foundry Hoefler & Co. have come up with a 'Typographic Ticket Book' that lets you write people up for 32 common design crimes. These include poor typeface choice, improper kerning, inappropriate typeface weight, excessive use of boldface, insufficient leading, and more. Each offense has its own violation code and appropriate penalty.

The book contains 50 tickets modeled after standard municipal tickets. The cover bears an official-looking gold seal emblazoned with the words "Final_Art_Final9.ai" and "Faciet Maior Logo" which is latin for "Make the logo bigger". Check it out here.

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

Posted By fershid 1846 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1735 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.

Photoshop’s New, More Powerful ‘Content-Aware Fill’ Can Realistically Remove Any Object From Your Photos

Posted By fershid 2046 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool to remove unwanted objects from your photos, but sometimes the results can fall short and the current tool doesn’t have any options to customize the results.

Well, all that is going to change with a powerful new upgrade to Content-Aware Fill that will give the tool its own workspace and additional customizations so you have more control over your images. The upgrade will let you preview the results in real-time and deselect parts of the image you would like to exclude from sampling.

With Adobe Sensei creative intelligence technology, the tool can now adapt to the scene. You can rotate, scale, and mirror source pixels, and output the results to a new layer. Watch the tool in action here.

Adobe Fontphoria Can Capture Text In Images And Convert Them To Fonts

Posted By fershid 2011 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - How many times have you wanted to know the name of a font used in a particular design or artwork? In some cases, the letters have been hand-drawn and the font doesn’t actually exist. But imagine if there was a technology that could scan the text in an image and create an entire font out of it.

Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called Fontphoria – a glyph morphing and generation system that can convert an image into a glyph and apply that style to other glyphs, turning them into a complete set of fonts.

This Brilliant Free Tool Can Remove The Background From Your Photo In Five Seconds

Posted By fershid 1957 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - AI photo filter maker Kaleido has come up with a powerful online tool called Remove.bg that erases the background from any image in five seconds or less, and gives you a transparent PNG of the person/people in the image. It works 100% automatically, you don’t have to mark the person or select the background and foreground layers manually. Just upload your image or enter its URL. Within five seconds you can download a transparent PNG cutout of the same.

The tool uses AI technology to detect foreground layers and separate them from the background. There are several additional algorithms to prevent color contamination and improve fine details.

8 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers

Posted By fershid 1734 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 Weather Channel Uses Incredible Augmented Reality Graphics To Explain Hurricane Florence

Posted By fershid 2043 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Weather reports on news channels are usually boring and mundane in terms of presentation, but not when it comes to US-based The Weather Channel. Last week, while covering the impact of Hurricane Florence on the Southeast Coast, TWC decided to present the gravity of the floods using Augmented Reality (AR).

The broadcast began with TWC’s on-camera meteorologist Erika Navarro describing the impact of the floods using conventional maps and data. 45 seconds into the segment, Navarro was “surrounded” by an AR visualisation of what the storm surge looks like in reality. Watch here.

How Good Is Your Eye For UI Design Details? Take This Quiz And Find Out

Posted By fershid 1901 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Seattle-based UX designer Alex Kotliarskyi has come up with an interesting visual quiz that tests your UI knowledge and attention to details.

Titled Can’t Unsee, the web-based game presents two choices of iOS interface designs, and asks you to pick which one is correct. You earn coins for every correct answer.

The game is divided into three rounds (easy, medium, hard) of 18 questions each. The challenges get harder as you progress.

This Brilliant Free Tool Tests Your Logo For Balance, Scalability, Color Blindness, And More

Posted By fershid 2006 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Kentucky-based designer Brandon Shepherd from Studio Bros. has come up with a useful online tool called Logo Lab that assesses your logo on 10 key factors like balance, scalability, color blindness, recognizability, etc. All you have to do is upload your logo in PNG or SVG format, and the app will display what your logo looks like under each parameter. You can then evaluate where your design succeeds and where there is room for improvement.

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

Posted By fershid 1833 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.

This Is Why You Should Never Hire Cheap Designers To Edit Your Photos

Posted By fershid 1956 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Irene Rudnyk is a professional photographer from Calgary, Canada, who shares photography and Photoshop tutorials on her YouTube channel. Recently, she decided to conduct a little experiment using the popular online marketplace Fiverr that lets you buy and sell services for $5.

The objective was to check the value and credibility of cheap freelance retouchers, since most of them have 5-star ratings and hundreds of positive reviews on the site. Irene hired three retouchers at different price points – $0.25, $5, and $10 – and gave them an unedited photo to retouch. Here are the results.

Designer Creates Clever Logos By Combining Two Different Things Into One

Posted By fershid 2042 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Indonesian designer Rendy Cemix has come up with an interesting project in which he combines the shapes of two completely different objects into one unique logo. The logo in each case is a visual representation of the brand name.

For example, the logo for Mountain-Fox is an aesthetically designed symbol of a fox with ears that look like snow-capped peaks. The logo for Chili-Chameleon is a clever combination of a chili pepper and a chameleon. The logo for Spartan-Pen is a fountain pen with a nib that looks like the helmet of a Spartan. Check out the project here.

Beautiful Color Palettes Of Countries From Around The World

Posted By fershid 1881 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Luxury travel specialists Sovereign have come up with a series of color palettes of 18 popular destinations from across the globe. The objective was to highlight the range of unique colorscapes that can be seen around the world.

Each palette consists of 20 colors that were derived from iconic locations in that country. The palettes are a reflection of their culture, heritage, geography, and architecture. Some of these might also give you color ideas for your next design project. Check them out here.

Designer Shares Short, Useful Animations To Help You Create Icons In Adobe Illustrator

Posted By fershid 2000 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Melbourne-based designer and entrepreneur Marc Edwards has come up with a series of speedrun videos that show you simple techniques to create vector icons in Adobe Illustrator.

Each video lasts only a few seconds and takes you through an optimal (and sometimes surprising) method to create common UI icons like bluetooth, headphones, inbox, settings, hourglass, lightning bolt, and lots more. You might have created such icons before, but the techniques shared in these videos will help enhance your workflow in Adobe Illustrator. Check them out here.

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

Posted By fershid 1830 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.