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How to Use AI in Lightroom: Tips, Tools & Techniques

Lightroom Presets / 27 Aug 2024

How to Use AI in Lightroom: Tips, Tools & Techniques

Adobe introduced several innovative AI features to the Lightroom app over the past few months, making your photo editing workflow much faster than ever before.

Today, we’re taking a look at how to use AI in Lightroom by exploring the best AI tools and techniques you should be utilizing in your workflow.

Adobe Lightroom is the go-to software among photographers, editors, and even social media influencers. It makes editing photos an effortless experience, especially when processing photos in batches.

With the addition of the new generative AI features, Lightroom is now more powerful and easy to use. In fact, the photo edits that normally require Photoshop can now be done directly inside the Lightroom app using the new AI tools.

Here are some of the best AI tools and features in Lightroom and how to use them.

20+ Audio Spectrum Video Templates & Visualizers

After Effects Templates / 26 Aug 2024

20+ Audio Spectrum Video Templates & Visualizers

Audio spectrum visualizers take your music beyond sound, turning rhythms and melodies into mesmerizing visual patterns that engage and captivate your audience.

In this post, we bring you a handpicked collection of audio spectrum visualizer templates for turning your audio tracks into creative music videos. With the right template, you can easily create professional-quality visuals that pulse, dance, and react to your audio, adding a unique and immersive layer to your content.

Each template is designed to be beginner-friendly, offering a range of styles and customization options to fit different genres and creative visions.

Whether you’re sharing tracks on social media, enhancing a music video, or adding a dynamic element to your YouTube channel, these audio spectrum video templates will transform your audio into stunning visual experiences. Have a look and start downloading!

20+ Best Mother’s Day Card Templates (+ Invitations, Flyers & More)

Flyer Templates / 26 Aug 2024

20+ Best Mother’s Day Card Templates (+ Invitations, Flyers & More)

Mother’s Day is all about expressing love and gratitude, and a thoughtfully designed card can make that sentiment even more meaningful.

With the right greeting card template, you can create a design that captures the warmth, elegance, and affection that this special day deserves.

In this post, we showcase a collection of the best Mother’s Day card and flyer templates. From minimalistic cards to elaborately designed templates, we’ve got you covered. These templates will provide you with an easy and stylish way to show your appreciation.

From classic floral motifs to modern, minimalist styles, our collection offers something for every taste and preference. Have a look.

50+ Best Invoice Templates for InDesign & Illustrator (Free + Premium)

InDesign Templates / 23 Aug 2024

50+ Best Invoice Templates for InDesign & Illustrator (Free + Premium)

A great-looking invoice template is a must-have for both freelancers and small businesses. It comes in handy especially when you have to process invoices to dozens of clients every month.

If you don’t have an invoice template yet or looking to upgrade your invoice with a new design, now is the perfect time to grab one.

In this post, we bring you some of the best invoice templates you can easily edit and customize using InDesign and Illustrator. With these templates, you’ll never have to worry about sending ugly invoices or pay monthly fees for online invoicing tools ever again.

You’ll also find invoice templates with various styles of designs below. We handpicked them to suit different types of businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers who provide services. There are some great free invoice templates too. Start downloading.

Tailwind vs Bootstrap: Pros, Cons & Differences

CSS / 23 Aug 2024

Tailwind vs Bootstrap: Pros, Cons & Differences

The main purpose of using a CSS framework is to save time. Why write ten lines of code to create a component when you can do it with just a single line of code.

Both Tailwind and Bootstrap are designed with that goal in mind. The best one to use is only a matter of preference. However, one of these frameworks is clearly superior to the other.

In this post, we’re doing a Tailwind vs Bootstrap comparison to take a closer look at these popular CSS frameworks and figure out which one is best. Let’s dive in and find the most useful CSS framework for your front-end development projects.

100+ Best Poster Mockup Templates 2024

Poster Design / 22 Aug 2024

100+ Best Poster Mockup Templates 2024

Without the right poster mockup to showcase your work professionally, your poster design doesn’t have the chance to stand out from the crowd. It’s often easy to overlook the way you present and showcase your poster designs! That’s why it’s worth investing in a set of useful poster mockup templates, to showcase your work in a beautiful setting.

If you’re working on a poster design right now, you’re in luck. Because we’ve picked out a collection of the absolute best poster mockups from all over the web, which you can use for presenting your work.

Whatever your poster style, theme, or size, we’ll have something in this collection for you.

We’re also featuring tips for modern poster design to help you with your poster design project!

25+ Realistic Oil Paint Filters, Effects & Brushes for Photoshop

Photoshop Actions / 22 Aug 2024

25+ Realistic Oil Paint Filters, Effects & Brushes for Photoshop

Photoshop offers a powerful platform for emulating the look and feel of real oil paint, allowing you to blend colors, build layers, and create intricate textures just like a master painter.

With the right filters, effects, and brushes, you can transform your digital canvas into a work of art that captures the essence and beauty of oil painting. Today, we have a bunch of Photoshop oil paint filters and effects to help you achieve that goal.

These Photoshop effects allow you to easily replicate the characteristics of traditional oil painting, from the smooth blending of colors to the thick, textured strokes of the brush. Our collection caters to a range of artistic styles, ensuring you find the perfect tools to bring your creative vision to life.

80+ Best Photoshop Filters + Plugins 2024 (+ How to Use Them)

Photoshop Actions / 21 Aug 2024

80+ Best Photoshop Filters + Plugins 2024 (+ How to Use Them)

If you’re looking for unique Photoshop filters to turn your photos into artwork, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we feature a collection of the best Photoshop filters and plugins you can use to add various effects to photos.

There are many benefits to using Photoshop filters. They are quite useful in crafting creative graphic designs such as posters, flyers, logos, and much more. While Photoshop itself comes with a set of default filters they don’t offer much value. Thankfully there are many filters you can download from third-party sources.

Using the Photoshop filters on our list, you can extend the functionality of Photoshop and create unique effects more easily.

20+ Best Flower Fonts (Free & Pro Floral Fonts)

Font Collections / 21 Aug 2024

20+ Best Flower Fonts (Free & Pro Floral Fonts)

Floral fonts combine the artistry of typography with the charm of nature, creating unique and visually appealing text that captures attention and evokes a sense of beauty and tranquility.

We handpicked an amazing collection of such beautiful flower fonts just for you. In this list, you’ll find lots of elegant, stylish, and cute floral fonts. From delicate, intricate blossoms to bold, vibrant floral patterns, these fonts cater to a wide range of styles and design needs.

Whether you’re designing wedding invitations, crafting seasonal marketing materials, or adding a whimsical touch to your social media graphics, these flower fonts will bring a fresh and enchanting look to your projects. Have a look.

75+ Best Affinity Designer Templates & Assets 2024 (Free & Premium)

Affinity Designer Templates / 20 Aug 2024

75+ Best Affinity Designer Templates & Assets 2024 (Free & Premium)

Affinity Designer is one of the most comprehensive graphics editing software available today. And it’s the best Adobe Illustrator alternative you could find. Today, we’re bringing you a handpicked collection of those amazing Affinity Designer templates and Affinity Designer assets.

The software is affordable, supports a wide variety of file types, and very beginner-friendly. The community for Affinity Designer is growing. Many marketplaces are now listing templates, textures, icon packs, and other resources specifically made for Affinity Designer.

We’re featuring a mixed collection of Affinity Designer templates and assets that includes all kinds of resources. And we only include the assets that come in .AFDESIGN file format, the default file format for Affinity Designer.

It’s worth noting that Adobe Illustrator files are also fully compatible with Affinity Designer. In addition to .afdesign files, you can download and use AI files and templates without any issues.

50+ Minimalist + Simple Google Slides Themes (Minimal Designs)

Google Slides Themes / 20 Aug 2024

50+ Minimalist + Simple Google Slides Themes (Minimal Designs)

A clean and minimal design plays an important role in making a successful slideshow for presentations.

As Guy Kawasaki once said, “Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.”

So today, we want to do just that. This collection includes only simple and minimalist Google Slides themes for designing slide decks that can grab attention. With these slide layouts, you can effectively highlight your content on each slide to get your point across to your audience without any distractions.

Whether you’re looking to create a startup pitch deck or an event presentation, there are Google Slides templates in this collection for all types of slideshow designs. You’ll find a few free templates as well. Have a look.

How to Use AI to Create a Logo (And Should You?)

How to Design a Logo / 20 Aug 2024

How to Use AI to Create a Logo (And Should You?)

Creating a logo for your business used to be a very time-consuming and costly process. Thanks to generative AI tools, you can now instantly create your own logos in just a few steps.

In this guide, we’ll show you exactly how to use AI to create a logo and which AI tools you can use for this task, step by step.

AI tools have made the process of creating logos much more effortless. You don’t need any graphic design knowledge to use these tools and you can even use them for free. But how good are these AI tools at creating logos? Let’s find out.