ByKimberly Zierlein
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Using the right fonts will make your retro and vintage designs more genuine and authentic. If you want to create a design that looks and feels like it came from the 1980s, there are many excellent fonts you can use, and you’ll find the best options here. Whether you’re designing a poster, a movie cover,…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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Military fonts favor bold styles. These fonts embody not just a graphic design element but an idea and presence the artist wants to convey to the audience. Military fonts are often made of heavy strong letterforms. There’s a wide variety of fonts out there, and military fonts are useful for design projects like posters, book…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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Curvy fonts bring a friendly appeal to most creative projects. Whether the font emulates handwriting or uses curves to create thick, beautiful letterforms, these curvy fonts will surely find a place within your work. The list below highlights some of the best curvy fonts on the market today to elevate a designer’s font library to…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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Creating clean, sharp artwork is within reach using a few mouse clicks to take a base design to an original. Custom shapes are items that work well within Adobe Photoshop to create graphical artwork. Not only are custom shapes preloaded into the program files, but you as the designer can create your own custom shapes…
ByBrant Wilson
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When you’re designing for print, it’s important to make sure that your file uses the CMYK color space so the colors will print accurately. But one of the challenges you may be facing is getting a true black in CMYK. You might end up with something that’s more like a dark gray than a pure…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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Psychedelic fonts are in a league of their own. From neon bright colors to patterns to reversed text, this is a font group that brings out another dimension of design for most professional graphic designers. Psychedelic designs were popular in the 1960s and ’70s. It was an era of love, peace, and free spirit. Designing…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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There’s something nostalgic about the iconic Wild West. There’s a rustic, rough character to all things that it embodies, especially in design and typography. Western fonts can be used in a variety of projects that help to enhance an element of depth and diversity. Using these in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe InDesign will…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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Photoshop layer styles can be a huge time-saver for designers. With the right layer styles in your arsenal, you can add beautiful effects to text, shapes, and other layers within your design in just a single click. These styles can be used over and over again whenever needed. Here we’ll showcase a huge collection of…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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While Adobe Illustrator comes with a selection of brushes pre-installed, many designers install other brushes (downloaded from third parties) to expand the possibilities. With the right brushes, your work in Illustrator can be both faster and more aesthetically pleasing. Here, we’ll feature the best Adobe Illustrator brushes you can download and start using today. Free…
ByKimberly Zierlein
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What is a Photoshop pattern exactly? It’s a .pat file format used in Photoshop to help create texture and a seamless, repeating pattern across an image. This unique function can be found by navigating to the top menu to Window > Pattern. This will open the Pattern panel for the designer to access a diverse…