The right fonts will catch your readers’ eyes and get your message across. Here are four tips to help you pick the best fonts for your next marketing design. With seemingly endless possibilities available, picking the right fonts to use when creating visual communications can be a mystifying process. It’s important to select fonts that work…
Read More4 Reasons Your Retail Business Needs a Facebook Presence
Is your retail business on Facebook? Here are four reasons your company needs a presence on the social media platform. Facebook has billions of users throughout the world, and many of them use the social media site to like and follow their favorite brands. If you don’t have a Facebook page for your company, or…
Read MorePhotoshop Quick Tip: How to Give an Image Dramatic Lighting
Maybe you’ve found the perfect image with the perfect subject, but it still needs a bit more richness. This quick method will help you take things up a notch by adding some dramatic lighting. For example, I’ve downloaded this Bigstock photo of a little girl with wings. Adorable, isn’t she? Let’s give her a lil’…
Read MoreHow to Give a Stock Photo Your Own Style with Overlays
Our world is full of stock photos – billions of them. In the off-chance you’ve seen them all, there are ways to give them a custom-made look. As you’ll see below, it’s pretty easy to edit a stock photo in order to give it your own sense of style and branding. When you want to give a stock…
Read MoreQuick Tip: Sharpen Your Image in Photoshop with a High Pass Filter
We all know that even a beautiful photo can sometimes be just a little too soft. You might be going for a richer, sharper look than what your photo is giving you. This super-quick Photoshop tutorial will help you easily sharpen up any photo. Let’s take a look at this beautiful royalty-free Bigstock photo of a woman in nature with her dog. It has…
Read MoreHow to Remove a White Background in 4 Steps
One of the most common photography techniques is to shoot against a seamless white background to keep all the focus on the subject. This may be cool for a product catalogue, but when designing a website or brochure, a white background might not work. The good news is that it’s easy to remove white backgrounds with…
Read MorePhotoshop Hack: How to Punch Up the Vibrancy of a Photo
This method to punch up the vibrancy and saturation of a photo is mega fast and easy. For this example, I’m using this fun Bigstock photo. 1. Open the File in Photoshop. 2. Duplicate the Background Layer. A quick way to do this is to select the Layer, and then hit Command- J (Control-J in Windows).…
Read MoreHOW TO MAKE CUSTOM PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES FROM VECTORS
Did you know that you can make your own Photoshop brushes? It’s true! In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a custom Photoshop brush out of this Bigstock vector. Start by opening the vector in Adobe Illustrator. In the Layers palette, find the part of the vector that you would like to use as…
Read MoreTHE 9 TYPES OF PEOPLE YOU’LL FIND ON AIRPLANES
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Read MoreSCARY PIZZA: THE TASTE OF TERROR
You’ll think twice before having a pizza party this Halloween. Crust no one. MUAH HA HA HAHA. MUAAAAAH HAHA HA HA HA. (This post was made with royalty-free images from our collection. The lightbox is below.) See all the images used this post in this very scary pizza lightbox:
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