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How to Wrap Text in InDesign

InDesign Templates / 5 May 2023

How to Wrap Text in InDesign

Text wrap is a powerful feature in InDesign that allows you to flow text around graphics, shapes, or other objects in your layout.

It helps create visually appealing and easy-to-read documents, as well as adds depth and structure to your designs.

In this article, we’ll show you how to wrap text in InDesign using various techniques.

20+ Best Photoshop Textures (Free & Pro)

Photoshop Brushes / 5 May 2023

20+ Best Photoshop Textures (Free & Pro)

Textures are a key ingredient used in all designs to add depth and realism to digital artworks. And today, we have the perfect collection of Photoshop textures you can use to achieve that goal.

Whether you’re working on a digital painting, a background for a website, or a cool photo manipulation, using the right textures will always bring out the best features of your designs. Textures can instantly transform your ordinary designs into a masterpiece as well.

For this collection, we gathered a variety of textures for you. There are all kinds of textures from weathered vintage wall textures to creative watercolor textures and so much more.

Grab a few of these Photoshop textures and start experimenting with new designs.

100+ Beautiful, Premium PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) Templates 2023

PowerPoint Templates / 5 May 2023

100+ Beautiful, Premium PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) Templates 2023

PowerPoint presentations, love them or hate them, are an essential part of today’s corporate world. Whether for business use or design purposes, the look-and-feel of your PowerPoint presentation can make a tremendous difference in how impressively your pitch comes across.

To help out with making your next PowerPoint presentation particularly impressive, we have searched the internet for professional and elegant PowerPoint templates that you can easily apply to your work.

We’ve also collected a series of tips for finding a beautiful PowerPoint template if you need some extra help.

How to Insert Pictures and Images in InDesign

InDesign Templates / 4 May 2023

How to Insert Pictures and Images in InDesign

InDesign is a powerful tool for creating visually stunning layouts, and incorporating images is an essential part of the design process.

In this article, we’ll show you how to insert pictures and images into your InDesign projects, as well as how to manage, resize, and format them for the best results.

We’ll also share four tips on how use clipping paths for images, organise your media more effectively, and use frame fitting options.

100+ Best Free PowerPoint Templates (PPT) 2023

PowerPoint Templates / 4 May 2023

100+ Best Free PowerPoint Templates (PPT) 2023

Not everyone can afford to buy premium PowerPoint templates to create their slideshows. But, that doesn’t mean you have to settle for a default template. There are dozens of incredible free PowerPoint templates to try out!

A great thing about the design community is that there are designers out there who willingly share their amazing work for free of charge, including gorgeous free PowerPoint templates.

To help you save some money, we scoured the web and handpicked a collection of the best free PowerPoint templates with modern and professional designs that you can use to make various types of presentations. Good luck with your presentation!

How to Add Page Numbers in InDesign (+ Design Tips)

InDesign Templates / 3 May 2023

How to Add Page Numbers in InDesign (+ Design Tips)

Adding page numbers to your InDesign documents helps keep your layout organized and makes it easier for readers to navigate your content.

In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of adding page numbers to your InDesign projects using Master Pages and automatic page numbering.

We’ll also share four tips on how to customise and improve the page numbering in your document in a few creative ways!

25+ Best Distorted & Glitch Fonts in 2023

Font Collections / 3 May 2023

25+ Best Distorted & Glitch Fonts in 2023

One of this year’s coolest design trends is the retro-futuristic cyberpunk-style design. Designers have been using this trend in all kinds of projects to make stylish and unique creations.

A must-have element for cyberpunk-style designs is a cool distorted or glitch font. If you’re thinking of creating a trendy retro-futuristic design, you don’t have to look any further to find the perfect glitch font for your project.

We handpicked a collection of the best distorted and glitch fonts with impressive character designs. These fonts feature fragmented elements with visual artifacts that make each letter look like a glitching error code from the future.

Explore the full list of glitch fonts below and feel free to download them all.

50 Best Website Color Schemes of 2023

Trends / 3 May 2023

50 Best Website Color Schemes of 2023

Does it ever seem like certain website color schemes just get all the attention? As with every other aspect of web design, there are color schemes that tend to trend more than others. Bright colors, stark palettes, and even some mismatching schemes are elements of color that are trending.

Here’s a look at some of the best website color schemes (in no particular order). For each, we’re also sharing the color codes that make up the key elements of the design, so it’s easy to play around with these color schemes yourself too!

One of the biggest trends in color schemes that you might notice is the use of dark dominant colors and backgrounds and shades of gold and bright red or pink hues for accents. This dark/light combo is an evolution of black and red in many minimal designs from a few years ago with a more modern touch.

Here are some great examples of color choices done right, to inspire your next project.

10 Design Tips for Real Estate Brochures + Presentations

Brochure Templates / 3 May 2023

10 Design Tips for Real Estate Brochures + Presentations

The perfect real estate presentation can help you sell quicker and entice more prospective buyers. It highlights your brand as a real estate agent or company and helps you position yourself in the marketplace.

But what does a stellar real estate brochure or presentation look like? It’s a unique piece of design work, that needs to convey a specific type of information (and still aim to convert a potential sale!)

We’ve got 10 great examples from templates you can download and use with tips for creating a brochure that you’ll keep sharing over and over again.

25+ Cool Photoshop Effects Tutorials & Templates

Photoshop Actions / 2 May 2023

25+ Cool Photoshop Effects Tutorials & Templates

Experimenting with cool effects and finding new techniques to use Photoshop is something that never gets old. And if you’re excited about learning new Photoshop tricks, then this guide is for you.

For designers, the learning never ends. You can always learn new Photoshop effects and try different trends to make your designs look extra special.

We found some cool Photoshop effects tutorials to help you learn a few new tricks. All of these tutorials are free and beginner-friendly. Even if you’re completely new to Photoshop, you can follow these tutorials step-by-step.

UXPin Merge: Build a Better Design Process

Reviews / 2 May 2023

UXPin Merge: Build a Better Design Process

If you find yourself doing the same things over, getting stuck between the design and developer handoff or want to create better collaboration and consistency, you aren’t alone. These are some of the most common challenges with digital design.

UXPin can help mitigate these issues and solve your problems with its technology, UXPin Merge, is made to facilitate design-to-dev collaboration. It actually allows designers to sync coded components and helps designers and developers use it as a single source of truth.

Here, we’ll look at some of the ways UXPin Merge might help you create better workflows, create more consistent products, and improve collaboration.

Design an Ambigram Logo With Your Name

Graphics / 2 May 2023

Design an Ambigram Logo With Your Name

Ambigrams are a particularly complex type of typographical art that can be read identically in different orientations. They typically take the form of a word that reads the same way upside down as it does right side up.

Today we’re going to see what’s involved in creating ambigrams and walk through creating a basic one on our own.