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January 12, 2026

AI Background Removal for Video: What Actually Works (December 2024 Review)

By Kelly Barkhurst
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12January

Struggling to remove a video background with multiple moving people? I tested Adobe Premiere, Adobe Express, Veed, Descript, and more—none handled a chaotic scene with students and an inflatable dinosaur costume. The only tool that delivered clean, accurate AI background removal was Wondershare Filmora’s Smart Cutout Video. Here’s my real-world comparison and why Filmora outperformed every...

December 5, 2025

WordPress and Elementor Professional Clean-up

By Kelly Barkhurst
4 Min read
05December

I recently helped a local business polish their WordPress site built with Elementor. From homepage setup to search functionality and restricting page editing for specific roles, here are a few practical fixes that made the site cleaner, more functional, and easier to manage.

December 3, 2025

Design Critique: Taking the Back of a Cereal Box From 95 Percent to 100 Percent

By Kelly Barkhurst
15 Min read

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.

October 13, 2025

Workflow: From PPT Pitch Deck to LinkedIn Carousel to Animated Video

By Kelly Barkhurst
8 Min read
13October

Ever created a beautiful PowerPoint pitch deck and thought, “This would make a great LinkedIn post”? In this tutorial, I show how I transformed one client deck into a swipeable LinkedIn carousel and an animated social video—using simple tools like PowerPoint, Canva, and a free video upscaler. It’s a fast, creative workflow for repurposing your design content across platforms.

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