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43 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1842 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Awsmcolor is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. At the end of every month, they feature the top nine palettes for that month. If you create something exceptional using their palettes, you can get featured on their page as well.

We’ve shortlisted some of the best color palettes on the Awsmcolor page in terms of usability, aesthetic appeal, and current design trends. Check them out here.

Adobe After Effects Has A Powerful New Tool That Can Remove Any Object From Your Video

Posted By fershid 1837 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool in Photoshop that lets you remove unwanted objects from your photos. But what if you want to remove objects from a video? You’ll need to edit each frame individually and then stitch them back together.

Well, all that has changed now in the latest release of After Effects (16.1), which includes a powerful new Content-Aware Fill feature that lets you remove unwanted objects like boom mics, logos, and even people from your footage.

Regular readers of Digital Synopsis will remember when Adobe first shared a teaser of this technology back in October 2017 under the name Project Cloak. The software giant has now released the Sensei-driven feature that will come as a boon to editors and production artists. You can watch the technology in action below, alo

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

Posted By fershid 1836 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1823 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1820 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.

21 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1815 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - As a designer, no matter how many fonts you have on your system, you always want more. You might use just a fraction of those fonts on a regular basis, but you need to have a gorgeous collection in your repository at all times. And what’s the one thing designers love more than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that’s available for FREE!

Today’s post is a collection of 21 gorgeous free fonts that’ll make every designer drool. The list includes all types of typefaces – serif, sans serif, script, handwritten, rounded, geometric, etc. Check them out here.

32 Beautiful Color Palettes With Their Corresponding Gradient Palettes

Posted By fershid 1814 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Mr.Pugo is a handy resource that shares beautiful color palettes (with hex codes) and also their corresponding gradient palettes. We’ve shortlisted some of the best ones in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, and current design trends. Check them out here.

Free And Cheaper Options To Photoshop, Illustrator, And Other Adobe Creative Software

Posted By fershid 1801 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Freelance illustrator, artist, and author Michael Sexton has compiled a list of free and cheaper (single purchase) alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and Audition. Michael created the list after Adobe’s recent price hike of its photography plan from $9.99 to $19.99. After an outcry from creatives, the price was reverted back to $9.99.

But Michael believes a price rise is inevitable as Adobe has roped enough people into subscriptions. He created this handy little graphic (in Affinity Designer) to help out fellow designers. We’ve added links to the mentioned programs below the graphic. Check them out here.

11 Great Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1782 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - One of the best ways to tell an amateur designer from a seasoned professional is by their font pairings. A good designer knows which fonts complement each other, and how to strike typographical balance by using contrast and hierarchy. Here’s a list of 10 golden rules of typography that’ll help you get it right.

If you’re looking for examples of good font pairings, Kalyspo Designs has come up with a list of 11 excellent combinations that will make your designs look professional and aesthetically pleasing. These include free fonts from Google Fonts and a few other popular choices. Check them out here.

32 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers

Posted By fershid 1781 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.

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

Posted By fershid 1725 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.

8 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers

Posted By fershid 1724 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.

Designer Creates Clever Typographic Logos That Visualize The Meanings Of Various Words

Posted By fershid 1693 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Istanbul-based designer Mustafa Ömerli has come up with an interesting project that features typographic logos of common words we use every day. He visually represents the meanings of the words by using symbols, negative space, or by adding geometric elements to the letters.

For example, the letter ‘k’ in the word ‘kickboxing’ looks like its landing a kick on the letter ‘i’. The letter ‘c’ in the word ‘cup’ has a coffee cup hidden in its negative space. The letter ‘o’ in the word investigation looks like a magnifying glass. Check out the best logos from the project here.

AI Creates 100,000 Realistic Photos You Can Use For Free Without Copyright

Posted By fershid 1668 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - For most design projects and presentations, you need quality portraits of people. Designers often spend a lot of time trying to find images that are free, diverse, and legal to use.

To make life easier, Icons8 has come up with a brilliant free resource called Generated Photos – a diverse library of 100,000 realistic faces created by artificial intelligence. None of the people are real. No images were sourced from stock media or the internet. All the training data was shot in-house and is fully model released.

35 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers

Posted By fershid 1663 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Are you in the middle of difficult project with a stiff deadline? Is your client giving you sleepless nights? Are you tired of your boss micromanaging everything? If yes, then what you need is a healthy dose of meme-therapy to help brighten up your day.

12 Important Design Principles Explained With Simple Graphics

Posted By fershid 1624 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - There are no formulas or fixed rules for good design, but there are some basic principles that will help you create design that is functional, effective, and aesthetically pleasing.

Technical jargon can sometimes get confusing or overwhelming, which is why Turkish designer Natay Salim has come up with a handy image series that uses simple examples to explain the 12 main design principles. Check them out here.

Graphic Designer Replaces Wordmarks In Famous Logos With The Fonts They Use

Posted By fershid 1549 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Italian graphic designer Emanuele Abrate has come up with a brilliant project titled Logofonts that replaces wordmarks of famous logos with the name of the fonts they use.

For example, the word “Google” in the tech giant’s logo has been changed to “Product Sans” (name of the font used) written in the same colorful style. The wordmark in Amazon’s logo has been changed to “Officina Sans”, with their famous orange arrow underneath. The FedEx wordmark has been changed to “Futura” written in the same purple and orange style as the original logo. Check out the project here.

New Feature In Photoshop Lets You Convert Raster To Vector With Just One Slider

Posted By fershid 1548 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Did you know that you can now convert a raster image into a vector graphic within just a few seconds in Photoshop? You can also import the vector into other Adobe applications.

In this handy tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you how to use Libraries to open the Adobe Capture interface and create vector shapes out of raster images. Keep in mind that for this to work, you need to be a Creative Cloud member and your raster image should be one color only. Watch here.

Graphic Designer Replaces Wordmarks In Popular Logos With The Fonts They Use

Posted By fershid 1494 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Italian graphic designer Emanuele Abrate has come up with a clever project titled Logofonts, in which he substitutes wordmarks of famous logos with the name of the fonts they use.

For example, the word “Omega” in the Swiss watchmaker’s logo has been changed to “Futura” written in the same style as the original logo. Nutella’s wordmark logo has been changed to “Avant Garde”, using the same red and black color scheme. The Discovery Channel wordmark has been changed to “Gotham Medium” written in the same style with the globe on the left. Check out the project here.

Graphic Designer Fixes The 9 Worst Logos Ever

Posted By fershid 1425 days ago on all

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Regular readers of Digital Synopsis must have read our article on 25 epic logo design fails. Now, Italian graphic designer Emanuele Abrate has come up with an interesting project in which he has redesigned the 9 worst logos out of that list.

Emanuele has tried to recreate these logos as if they were commissioned to him. He’s used different typography techniques, created aesthetic logomarks, and kept the brand colors as close to the original ones as possible.

Which do you think is the most successful redesign? Check out the project below and share your feedback in the comments.