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

Posted By fershid 1994 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.

28 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers

Posted By fershid 1933 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Are you in the middle of a tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your boss or client being a d*ck? Are you tired of creating “Buy Two, Get One Free” flyers and banners? If yes, then indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day.

Scientific research has proven that memes help reduce work-related stress by stimulating the release of endorphins that trigger a sense of well-being within your body. In a study of over 3,600 working people, neuroscientists found that daily exposure to memes reduced chances of work-related burnout by 57%.

31 Beautiful Gradient Logos For Design Inspiration

Posted By fershid 1868 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 ...

How To Copy Colors From An Image And Apply Them On Another Image In Photoshop

Posted By fershid 1909 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with a brilliant tutorial that shows you how to extract colors from an image, and replicate them on any other image.

Learn how to generate a color palette from an image, and apply that palette to another image using curves and gradient maps. Unmesh shares some useful tips and techniques to effectively match the color, tone, and ‘mood’ of your images. Watch here.

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

Posted By fershid 2016 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

Even Companies With Long Names Can Have Good Logos, Here Are 25 Excellent Examples

Posted By fershid 2050 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - When it comes to logo design, a long company name can be quite a challenge. You want to create a logo that’s clean and memorable, but lengthy lines of text can look cluttered and uninspiring.

Professional designers use different techniques to solve the visual challenges of a long brand name. These include:

1. Splitting the name into two or three lines
2. Using different colors for different words
3. Using a condensed typeface
4. Placing the logo symbol between the words

Some companies also use two versions of the same logo – a horizontal logo for wide landscape spaces, and a vertical logo for narrow portrait spaces.

We’ve compiled a list of 25 well-known examples that prove even companies with long names can have good logos. Check them out here.

This Brilliant New Tool Is Like Google Search For Colors

Posted By fershid 2097 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Swedish digital studio Future Memories has launched a brilliant new tool called Picular that lets you search for colors by keyword and displays a range of colors based on the top 20 Google Image search results for that keyword.

For example, if you search for ‘ocean’, Picular analyzes the top 20 Google Images for ‘ocean’ and displays the most prominent color in each image and its hex-code. You can copy the hex-code with one click and even preview the original image.

Think of Picular as a search engine for colors, a priceless tool for any designer.

32 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers

Posted By fershid 1821 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1996 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.

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

Posted By fershid 2086 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 1938 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 2045 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 1876 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 1766 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 2077 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 2042 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.

8 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers

Posted By fershid 1764 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1988 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.