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Shit Clients Say – 13 Most Unforgettable Quotes

Posted By fershid 1926 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - How many times have you had a client send a list of “final” changes AFTER they’ve approved the design? What about when they ask you to find an image from Google, or copy someone else’s logo, or when they tell you to deliver designs by Monday after briefing on Friday?

We all come across unreasonable client demands on a daily basis, but the folks at BeeWits have a dedicated ‘Shit Clients Say’ board – a hall/wall of fame filled with the funniest client feedback they’ve received over the years (image shared at the bottom). They’ve created a series of posters out of the most hilarious ones, check them out below.

Japanese Artist Turns Product Packaging Into Amazing Artworks

Posted By fershid 1938 days ago on Art

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Japanese artist Haruki transforms packaging of everyday items like Pringles chips, Oreo cookies, Nestle milk, etc. into amazing paper sculptures and artworks. He uses a technique known as kirigami, a variation of origami, which involves cutting and folding paper to create intricate designs. Kirigami is usually associated with traditional Japanese art, but Haruki applies the technique on product packaging and creates his own style of art.

The Top 50 Companies Creatives Would Love To Work For

Posted By fershid 1939 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Creative talent network Working Not Working has released its annual survey of the top 50 companies creatives want to work for. This is the fifth edition of the list, which started in 2014.

This year’s list has been compiled from the answers of 8934 creatives who are part of the Working Not Working community. 2832 companies were named, and the top 50 made it to the list.

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

Posted By fershid 1959 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1961 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.

Legendary Painters ‘Deliver’ Their Paintings In Brilliant Ads For Fine Arts Transport Company

Posted By fershid 1966 days ago on Advertising

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Welti-Furrer is a leading Swiss company for fine art transports. Their experts transport valuable art with the utmost care. To communicate their services to museums, galleries, curators, and art collectors, agency Ruf Lanz (Zurich) came up with a brilliantly art-directed campaign featuring four legendary painters: Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and Frida Kahlo.

The ads show the artists dressed as Welti-Furrer delivery personnel carrying/transporting their paintings themselves, in wooden freight boxes. The tagline reads, “We transport fine art as carefully as if we had created it ourselves.”

The campaign ran in art magazines, selected billboards, and at Art Basel – the world’s largest art fair. Check it out here.

Designer Creates Clever Negative Space Logos That Visualize The Name Of The Company

Posted By fershid 1967 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Lithuania-based graphic designer Leo has come up with a series of clever logos that combine the name or initials of the company into one unique symbol using negative space. The logo in each case visually represents the name of the company.

For example, the logo for Secret Chat is a pair of lips with a padlock in the negative space between the lips. The logo for Wine Rocket is a space shuttle with a wine bottle in the negative space of the shuttle. Leo used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create the logos. Check them out here.

Motherboards Look Like Agricultural Fields In Brilliant Ads For Volkswagen’s Tech-Savvy Trucks

Posted By fershid 1968 days ago on Advertising

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Volkswagen Argentina wanted to promote its Amarok V6 4×4 pickup truck to young, tech-savvy agricultural workers who work in crop fields and rely on technology to get the job done. The Amarok has 4×4 capabilities but also comes loaded with technology that these “rural millennials” will appreciate.

Agency Geometry Argentina came up with a brilliant print and outdoor campaign that features, what looks like, aerial photographs of an agricultural field. When we look closer, we realize that the fields are actually motherboards. The tagline reads, “Amarok V6 4×4. In the technology field.” Check out the campaign here.

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

Posted By fershid 1969 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.

Simple, Useful Design Tips For UI/UX Designers

Posted By fershid 1973 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - ‘Sparklin Design Tips’ is a series of short, useful UI/UX tips by New Delhi-based digital agency Sparklin, shared every Tuesday on their social media channels.

Using before-and-after mockup images, the team at Sparklin explains good UI/UX practices with visual examples, making them easy to understand and comprehend. Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned designer, these tips will definitely come in handy for your next project. Check them out here.

What Logos Of Famous Painters Would Look Like

Posted By fershid 1974 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Brazilian art director Milton Omena has come up with an interesting project that imagines what logos of famous painters from Renaissance, Impressionist, and Modern Art periods would look like. He studied the painting styles and personalities of legendary artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and created a unique symbol for each one of them.

Milton, who works as an AR/VR developer for architecture visualizations, came up with the idea for this project one day when he was figuring how to expand his design boundaries and challenge himself. He decided to create visual identities for iconic painters and showcase them as a brand, with their own line of products. Check out the project here.

How To Stretch Images With Complex Backgrounds Like Trees And Buildings In Photoshop

Posted By fershid 1984 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - When you’re designing a website or managing a social media page, sometimes you need a wide format image for your Facebook cover, Instagram post, or website hero image. But what if the image you like has a portrait orientation or isn’t as wide as you want?

A couple of posts ago, we featured a handy tutorial that showed you how to trick the Content-Aware Scale tool and extend the background of an image without distorting the subject. But there’s a problem with that technique, it doesn’t work well with detailed or complex backgrounds like trees or buildings.

In this brilliant tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you how to use the Content-Aware Fill tool, the Healing Brush tool, and Adjustment layers to effectively extend images with complex backgrounds.

Designer Uses Beautiful Gradients And Abstract Shapes To Describe Meanings Of Words

Posted By fershid 1987 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - UK-based graphic designer Evgeniya Righini-Brand has come up with a fascinating project titled “Gradient Studies” in which she uses vibrant gradients and abstract shapes to visually describe the meanings of various words. For example, the visual for the word “flow” is an abstract liquid shape with multiple gradient meshes in blue and white. The visual for the word “energy” is a series of flame-like shapes in red, yellow, and orange gradients.

The challenge was to create artwork purely in Adobe Illustrator using gradient and color tools. Each image took between 30 minutes and 1 hour, from concept to export.

Evgeniya drew inspiration from organic and celestial themes. Her passion for geometry and minimalism is reflected in her designs. The images can also serve as gradient inspiration

Adobe ‘Good Bones’ Lets You Change Vector Shapes Easily By Adding A Skeleton Structure

Posted By fershid 1989 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - When you create artwork in Adobe Illustrator, the underlying geometry of the vector graphics can be quite complex. If you need to change the appearance of your vector figure, you’ll need to edit each anchor point individually, which can be quite a task. For example, if you want to open the mouth of a vector dinosaur that you’ve created, you’ll need to tweak each anchor point along the head to get the desired result.

Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called ‘Good Bones’ that enables intuitive and shape-aware editing of complex vector graphics. It uses Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence to analyze the shape of a graphic and automatically adds segment handles and ‘bones’ to connect them to a skeleton-like structure. You can then move the handles around and the AI modifies a

Adobe ‘Fast Mask’ Lets You Quickly Select And Mask Any Moving Object In A Video

Posted By fershid 1994 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - In After Effects, if you want to add text or an effect behind an object in a video, you can use the Roto Brush to select the object, and then apply a mask. However, the current Roto Brush is not a very intuitive tool and in most cases the mask breaks after the first frame, specially if the object is fast-moving (like a dancer or a person running). You can spend hours manually fixing each frame but that would be tedious and time-consuming.

Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called ‘Fast Mask’ that lets you quickly select an object in a video and accurately apply the mask across multiple frames of the video. All you have to do is add a few boundary points to select the object in one frame and click Propagation. Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence (AI) automatically applies t

15 Brilliant Art Tributes To The MARVELous Stan Lee

Posted By fershid 1996 days ago on Art

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics, passed away on November 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. He was 95.

In collaboration with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Lee co-created iconic superhero characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and Daredevil. He also co-created the characters Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man with his brother and co-writer Larry Lieber.

Lee was the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and later its publisher and chairman. He led its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation. After retirement, he remained a public figurehead for the company, and often made cameo appearances in Marvel films and television projects.

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

Posted By fershid 2003 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.

Adobe ‘Moving Stills’ Turns Static Images Into 3D Animated Photos And Videos

Posted By fershid 2008 days ago on Photography

https://digitalsynopsis.com - When you’re browsing through old photos do you sometimes wish you could view a video or a 3D animation of the same scene?

Although companies like Apple and Samsung let you capture Live Photos or Motion Photos with their mobile devices, those are just flat video recordings taken a few seconds before you click a picture. The images don’t really give you a 3D perspective – there’s no parallax and no illusion of depth. You also can’t turn your old photos into live photos.

Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called Moving Stills that enables any photograph to be turned into a live photo by animating the image in 3D. It simulates a realistic effect of walking through the scene using deep learning powered by Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence (AI). You can also use different c

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

Posted By fershid 2010 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.

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

Posted By fershid 2015 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.