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How to Make a Repeating Shape Pattern in Illustrator

How to Make a Repeating Shape Pattern in Illustrator

Here’s a great Adobe Illustrator tip I wanted to share with you all.  It just so happens that if you hold down the “tilde” key on your keyboard, you can get a neat effect using any of Illustrator’s drawing tools. Holding down the tilde key, (the little squiggly line above the tab key, left of the…

How to Build a Custom Photoshop Swatch from an Image
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How to Build a Custom Photoshop Swatch from an Image

Sampling from a photo is an excellent way to pull colors for painting, digital design, or any creative project. However, manually sampling each color is time-intensive and only useful when you really need a precise color match. Otherwise, it’s a whole lot easier to build new swatches dynamically through Photoshop. Extracting swatches from the high-resolution…

What are Photoshop Actions? How to Use Them and Free Resources

What are Photoshop Actions? How to Use Them and Free Resources

What are Photoshop Actions? Photoshop Actions are editing steps recorded into downloadable presets When users download actions, they can then apply the actions to their own images to create a stylized photo or an image collection This allows Photoshop users to alter photos very quickly in a specific style, without constantly repeating steps during editing Actions can be…

Adobe Illustrator’s Pathfinder: Explained

Adobe Illustrator’s Pathfinder: Explained

If you aren’t familiar with Illustrator’s extremely handy “Pathfinder” palette, you might sit down for a few moments to play with it, because it is a true time saver and an excellent tool for manipulating paths. First, of all let me say that “Pathfinder” is a horrible name for this palette. It doesn’t actually “find”…

How To Clear Color Swatches in Photoshop & Illustrator

How To Clear Color Swatches in Photoshop & Illustrator

As you likely very well know, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are very common design tools. Although they possess an incredible amount of power the overall interface can be quite cumbersome even to intermediate users. But if you spend enough time learning the fundamentals everything else will just naturally fall into place. Getting rid of swatches is…

21 Insanely Helpful Adobe Premiere Tutorials for Beginners

21 Insanely Helpful Adobe Premiere Tutorials for Beginners

What is the right Adobe Premiere Tutorial for me? With high-quality, affordable tools, filmmaking is now more accessible than ever before. One of the most powerful tools available is Adobe Premiere. Since Adobe Premiere is used by professionals, it has numerous facets to learn. As an aspiring editor, you may wonder which Premiere skill you should learn first, and…

10 Seriously Easy Ways to Prepare for Your Next Interview

10 Seriously Easy Ways to Prepare for Your Next Interview

How to prepare for your next interview: Know your interviewer Study interview questions Utilize various forms of practice Dress the part Elevate your portfolio Bring the right tools Keep your answers brief Focus on your strengths Be passionate Follow up The job market can be a tough place, and even tougher for freelancers and artists. But…