Find inspiration, how-tos, instructions, tips, and thoughts about graphic design and design programs, especially Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Premiere.
Learn how to make diagonal shapes in CSS Code and Adobe products, including demonstrations for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
A nearly perfect cereal box can be a designer’s best classroom. In this critique, I break down subtle alignment issues on the back of a Quaker Oatmeal Squares box and show how tiny adjustments—hanging punctuation, optical tweaks, centering, and type alignment—can take a layout from 95% to polished and intentional. Video and full transcript included.
Fix Photoshop’s “unknown or invalid JPEG marker” error fast. Learn why iPhone images mislabeled as JPEGs break and how to fix them on a Mac in minutes.
Ever stretched a pattern in Illustrator and wondered why it looks distorted—or why it won’t move with your shape? Learn how to precisely align, scale, and reposition pattern fills using the Transform Patterns option and the tilde (~) key shortcut. Perfect for designers who want more control and cleaner results.
Learn how to change units in Photoshop, including pixels, inches, and millimeters. This beginner-friendly guide shows you where to update your measurement settings, how to fix mismatched units in the toolbar, and reveals a hidden Control-click (Mac) or right-click (PC) trick every designer should know.
Learn how to use Photoshop artboards like Illustrator to design and manage multi-format campaigns in one organized, print-ready file.
When you scale your Artboard or object in Adobe Illustrator, don't forget that you can scale by different reference points, nine to be exact! Here's how.
What's the best settings to use when aligning your text to the left in InDesign? Well that depends on your goals. Here are a few options. Watch or read below.
Here are 6 ways to do it. As frequent users of Adobe products know first-hand, each Adobe program has similarities AND lots of differences AND there's many ways to accomplish each task. The copying of styles (fx) is one such difference.
Quick fix for missing tools in Photoshop: switch your workspace or search for the hidden tool — no reinstall needed!