It's a newer trend — using organic shapes to make beautiful compositions for on labels, flyers, backgrounds and often as a textile or wrapping papers patterns. Making a pattern for a background is an easy task if you use the right tools, no matter the original pattern source. Today, you will learn how to make [...]

It's a little harder to find Illustrator brushes compared to Photoshop brushes. But don't be fooled — when used properly ​they're a great design resource for hand drawn effects, shadings, and intricate designs. Pattern Brushes are one of the even more rare Illustrator brushes,​ but today you will learn how to create your own easily [...]

Here's how you can easily make symmetric designs live in Illustrator. It's a great method if you're looking to speed your workflow and see what happens on the reflected side while you are drawing on the other side (instead of wasting time selecting, grouping and flipping the half of your design to achieve a symmetric [...]

In Illustrator, there are countless ways to warp a text into a shape — but they're not all created equal. Some methods simply don't give you good control over your text, others require you to convert your text to curves so you can no longer edit it. Don't worry, today I'll show you a very [...]

In Illustrator, there are many different ways to make a sliced text effect. You can use the Pathfinder, the Knife Tool and even the Appearance Panel to slice your text, but! there's a faster and more precise way. The lesser known method involves the Shape Builder Tool. Today, you will learn not only how to [...]

Changing the Color Grading of an image is a great way to change the mood of it, and in Photoshop there are a ton of ways to do that. You can make it from scratch, using Gradient Maps, matching colors, using third party plugins and many more. Today, I'll show you how you can do [...]

Make your own handwritten text look vintage! Great for logos, badges, or over any other design. Today, you will learn how easy is to make your own handwritten text looks like a vintage one in less than 10 minutes and have it in a vector format so you can freely scale it, change the color [...]

Obviously, there's more than one way to make pretty much anything in Photoshop, and the ways to replace a color on an image are so myriad it's almost funny. Besides replacing colors using traditional methods like adding a color layer and masking an area or playing with the Hue/Saturation layer, there is a very quick [...]