This video goes over when to use Adobe Illustrator vs. Photoshop. Ultimately both programs are super versatile, so it's likely that you can accomplish whatever you're up to in either program. That being said, each program also brings certain strengths and weaknesses to the table when doing design work, so it's helpful to consider those when taking on new projects.

Illustrator is a fantastic vector program and Photoshop is a fantastic raster program, and I'll walk through what that means and why you should care about it. :)

Are you missing out on 100s of Free Photoshop Extensions from Adobe? Find some of the finest and amazing extensions right from inside of Photoshop. In this tutorial, learn how to explore and install these add-ons with just one click!

In this complete step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to blur backgrounds in Photoshop!

You will learn about selections, Layer Masks, Smart Objects, and the Tilt-Shift Blur to blur your photo's background.

This Photoshop tutorial will cover everything that you need to know about creating the shallow depth of field effect (out of focus background) WITHOUT an expensive lens.

If you´re just starting create content on Instagram you have to start by creating High Quality carousel posts. This seamless multi post carousel post, can increase the chances of people saving your posts and boost reach to attract new followers or clients to your business.

Your carousel posts will never be the same with the tips I give your in this video.

In this video we will be answering the following questions:

- Create the perfect / resolution size recommended by Instagram to create seamless carousel using Canva?

- Design seamless Instagram carousel post using Canva?

- How to split Instagram carousel from Canva with free tool?

Learn color theory and how to choose colors that work well together: with the color wheel, color harmonies and color palettes.

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Have you ever wondered how some artists are able to find perfect color combinations that just seem to work, every time? In this video, I’m going to show you how to use the color wheel and color harmonies to choose color combinations that look GOOD.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

- Basic color theory: What is the color wheel?

- What are the primary colors?

- What are secondary and tertiary colors?

- What is the difference between hue, color saturation, color value, and color temperature?

- What is the difference between warm red and cool red?

- What are color harmonies?

- What are monochromatic colors?

- What are complementary colors?

- What is a split-complementary color scheme?

- What is a triadic color scheme?

- What are tetradic colors?

- What are analogous colors?

- How can I use color harmonies to choose colors?

- How can I use color palettes?

We’ll cover the 6 different types of color harmonies, including plenty of example color palettes:

1. Monochromatic colors

2. Complementary colors

3. Split-complementary colors

4. Triadic colors

5. Tetradic colors

6. Analogous colors

We’ll be using the traditional RYB color wheel throughout this video, with the primary colors Red, Yellow and Blue. There are other color wheels (RGB and CMY) that are often used for better color mixing, but the RYB color wheel is still the best for working with color harmonies.

Explore the Amazing Power of the Background Eraser Tool in Photoshop! Learn how to easily cut out hair or complex edges using this tool, as we will learn it in-depth with the best settings for every situation. We will also cover how to make this tool completely non-destructive.

Whether you want to change the background or make it transparent, the Background Eraser can help you not only remove the background bust also create a refined mask.

Graphics Designing is a visual communication between client and Designer. There are lots of ways to display graphics according to requirements. Very important thing is to keep in mind during design any graphics is the purpose, and where it going to be display.

Why Graphic Designing is Ideal for Digital Marketing | What is graphic designing?

business grows when properly promoted. Impressive graphics representations are the ways to develop your business and find potential customers. When a prospect visits your website, you'll be amazed by the visual information and features.

Do you want to know how to make a stunning graphic design portfolio from scratch, without having many or ANY actual client projects? Well here are some tips and tricks that will help your portfolio look awesome and actually have content that potential clients will want to see. Building a portfolio from scratch is not as difficult as you may think, and today you will see some valuable tips and tricks along the way.

Your graphic design portfolio is crucial to you landing jobs, yet it’s difficult to do if you are starting out or finding it hard to gain clients. I hope in this video to show you techniques and tips that will benefit you in the long run to land actual graphic design clients on a regular basis. I cannot emphasis enough how important your graphic design portfolio is. So do take notes and do follow along because it is important material.

One of the things I see people struggling the MOST with when working in Canva is getting text on top of images to pop or show up! Contrast is KEY. Here's a really simple trick to make your text over image designs more successful.

Do you want 50 FREE fonts!? Download these commercial use fonts for free, and see how they fit into your graphic design workflow with ease. 50 free fonts from 6 different typefaces, and in the vide I show them off for logo design purposes.

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Todays video is kind of a double whammy, in the sense that you will not only learn about 50 free fonts for download, but I show how they can be used for specific genres of logo design. You will learn something as well as get the chance to download some of the cleanest fonts totally for free. Surely that has to be worth while to fellow graphic designers such as yourself?

I know that many viewers to this channel love typography and fonts (a lot like myself) so it should be known that videos like this will always be ready to go up onto my channel. You can of course find all of the free font downloads linked below, and be sure to check out more content by myself here at Satori Graphics.

If you found todays video on perfect fonts to download for your designs enjoyable or useful, let me know in the comments section and drop a like on your way out. Subscribe to stay updated to all of my uploads and until next time, design your future today, peace

Hey everyone! In today's canva tutorial, I will be demonstrating how to make Instagram highlight covers in canva for free. As you know, my canva tutorials are very simple and beginner-friendly. I hope this tutorial gives you some insight on how to create Instagram highlight covers; whether it's for your small business or personal Instagram account.

In this video, you'll find out how to create a product mockup in Canva with one click. Smartmockups had recently integrated fully with Canva allowing you to create realistic-looking product mockups such as ebooks, t-shirts, mugs, phone mockups, screen mockups and more.

In todays graphic design video tutorial, learn how to pair fonts LIKE A PRO! I show you the stunning results from using contrast on your typography, and how easy it is to select specific fonts for an optimum contrast and solid font pairing.

In the video, we walk through 4 key ways to pair fonts using contrast, and the 4 different ways are my personal selection for you to learn and use in your graphic design projects. They all focus on ways to use contrast within typography, which is an easy way to font pair. Let me know which of the 4 methods in the video appeals to you more..So why do we focus on contrast in the video as a means to pair fonts? Contrast, when done correctly, allows your design to become that more interesting and balanced. Having 2 fonts that are similar causes a clash, and this is negative to any viewer and for your design. So please do follow along with the video and learn all about font pairing while utilising contrast, for your typography!

You'll learn 20 CANVA TIPS AND TRICKS. In this CANVA TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS, you'll learn 20 of my favorite tips and tricks that you wish you knew earlier to help you design and work more seamlessly on Canva. You'll learn some handy keyboard shortcuts and little hacks to help you get further with Canva.

Today another colour theory video relating to graphic design, but in this video tutorial we delve into the different colour groups, so that you can learn and master colour groups within graphic design.

There is actually going to be 3 episodes in total, and this is the second video of those 3. In todays tutorial however, I cover the main colour groups, what they entail in terms of graphic design, and how you should approach these colour groups for your very own designs. It is important to keep in mind certain traits of each colour group; for example some colour groups are very contrasting and so caution is required when using such a colour scheme on your designs.

If you do enjoy these kind of videos on my channel, make sure to let me know with a like and a share. I understand how complex and daunting colour can be in graphic design, so I’m glad to bring such videos to you all, enabling you to master colour theory.

Today 6 graphic design rules you should never break! How many of these graphic design rules do you break, or have you broken? This is a collection of 6 golden rules to graphic design, and they are all unwritten rules of course, so check them out and see what you think!

It’s Tom with Satori Graphics back with another graphic design video. Today we are looking at 6 graphic design rules YOU should NEVER break! There are a lot more than 6, but the 6 rules that I’ve chosen for this video are long the most important to keep in mind. Graphic design is an industry of creativity and artistic flow, but it is also precise and thus there are unwritten rules you need to follow.

Hey folks, in this video I am going to show you how you can create an amazing Sliced Text Effect in Canva. It's a step-by-step Canva tutorial video so please watch the full video so you can create this design easily.

You can watch my other Canva tutorials too on this channel. if you have any suggestions or questions please ask me in the comment section below so I can help you.

I upload Canva Tutorials and Canva hacks by which you can get some more ideas to create amazing content.

This is your ultimate guide to the most popular fonts in 2022. Explore these fonts and more on Envato Elements

In this Canva text effects video, I kept it simple and to straight to this point. You don't need Canva Pro for this. Let's get started!!

How to create wavy text in Canva??? Simple!!

1. Find the text you want and apply it

2. Go to cava effects tab

3. Apply curved text and adjust.

How to edit in Adobe Photoshop | This Video is Basic Tutorial of Adobe Photoshop CS5 .

Selecting Color Range

To select out the different colors, create a new layer and go to Select - Color Range. Click on the color you want to sample with the regular eyedropper tool. You can play with the fuzziness to get more of an accurate selection. Also, if you need to add or take away from your selection, you can use the eyedroppers with the plus and minus symbols next to them to do so.

Next, go to Layer - New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation. This will load your selection directly into the Hue/Saturation layer so that you can adjust the hue sliders and change only the colors you want to change!

Refining Layer Masks

If you have small unwanted parts in a selection, you can always paint over it with a brush tool on the layer mask.

Tip: If you hold alt/opt and click on a layer mask, it will appear as black and white. This can be very helpful for seeing tiny stray colors in your selections.

The best, and also the easiest way to make backdrops seamless and wrinkle-free with Photoshop! In this lesson, learn how to simply recreate the original backdrop resulting in smooth and flawless background. To make the composite look realistic, we will also learn how to add lights and shadows to mimic the original image.

Learn how to fit image in circle, square, triangle or any simple or complex shape in Photoshop. In this video, we are going to learn how to fit any image to any object, be it an abstract brush stroke, or even text, in Photoshop. Using Clipping mask we are able to make the lower layer act as a placeholder the the above layer on while clipping mask is applied.

Ever wanted your picture to fit into a heart shape or a circle like many social media platforms? If that's sounds cheesy, there's more to it. Using Photoshop and a simple technique of clipping mask we can fit any image into an object, other image or text. In this video, I have shown you all of these three scenarios where you might want to confine your images to a shape or you want to show a pattern only through that shape like a cutout. Doesn't matter how complex or simple the shape or the image is, all clipping mask does is that, it makes any object in the layer below the layer in which clipping mask has been applied to act as a placeholder for the image which is present in the clipping mask layer. The clipping mask layer can also be an adjustment layer. In that way, a clipping mask layer only allows the effects on the object of the layer below it. It acts as a mask using the layer below as a reference. To summarize it, simply, a Clipping Mask is nothing but a mask on any kind of layer where the mask is nothing but the layer that it below the clipping mask layer.

This can be very useful as you can just create placeholders like rectangles and circles if you are designing a Magazine or a Brochure and just import the images into layers in the form of clipping masks instead of fiddling with the size and cropping out again and again. This can be fitting picture or an image to a box, or the area that you might have defined near the text.

The great thing about the clipping mask tool is that it can be applied to anything. Be it a shape, object, image, brush strokes and even an adjustment layer. In this video, we are going to take advantage of this to fit images, object or text to almost anything.

Firstly, we need to make or import the shape layer. This can be a transparent png, or a vector shape or something that you created with a transparent background. It can also be text. But, there are two criteria, one, this has be to a separate shape on a separate layer and two, it must not have a background. If it has a background, clipping mask won't be able to identify which part of the image would you want to make a placeholder.

Secondly, once your object or the structure is ready, the second step is to bring the image that you want to fit to the shape on the later above the shape layer that you just made.

Thirdly, press and hold the Alt key on Windows, Option key on Mac and move the cursor in between the two layers. You would see that the cursor has changed to a rectangle and a down arrow. When that happens, click the mouse button and Clipping Mask will be applied.

If you’re looking to truly establish your brand identity, here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to create your own, custom brand board.

Discover An Amazing Technique to Color Grade Automatically in Photoshop! Just pick whatever color you wish and make few clicks! Learn how to set the highlights, shadows, and mid-tones of any area to your desired colors using Curves.

In this video, we will learn a hidden feature of the Curves Adjustment Layer to shape the colors and stylize our images. Hope this tutorial helps, thank you for watching :)

Learn how to select a subject in white on a white background or a subject wearing dark on black backgrounds using an incredibly easy trick in Photoshop! In this tutorial, in addition to using the traditional method of Adjustment Layers to create the difference between the subject and the background, we will also learn how to use Photoshop's new A.I. feature: Select Subject, to further improve the selection.

The Right Way to Use Color Range to Mask Hair in Photoshop! Learn how to precisely select and remove the background even with difficult hair. Explore essential tips and tricks to refine the mask according to the new background.

In this tutorial, we will also learn how to remove edge fringe or halos and create a cleaner composite using the power of blend modes and clipping masks.

3 PLACES WITHIN CANVA WITH FREE RESOURCES TO CREATE POLAROID DESIGNS (Canva Tutorial)

In this video I'm going to show you how I create seamless / flowing Carousel posts with 10 slides in Canva.

Choosing colors for a new project is a daunting task for many (including myself).

There's so much ambiguity involved:

How do I decide on my primary color?

How do I match it with other great colors?

How do I apply all of my colors thoughtfully to my website?

All of these questions are answered in this video through a simple & reliable 3-step process that you can apply to any project.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:39 Choosing a dominant color

2:00 Add two more colors

4:12 How to apply your colors

Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator and how to use the most common tools and functions to create vector art! This is not your typical tutorial, this is a very quick video showing as many of the basics as possible.

A compilation of 15 most common design mistakes committed by non-designers and amateur visual artists. They include how to avoid using too many words instead of visuals, Poor readability, and lack of negative space.

This video goes DEEP into the science of typography. In graphic design, typography is way more interesting and profound than you probably think.

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Once you start to understand the importance of the science and psychology of typography, your designs then excel and become a whole lot more targeted and effective. In the video we look at certain brands such as British Airways, and how the brand message totally changes when the font is simply replaced. It's remarkable how the style of typeface has such a strong hold over what your design says and how it's perceived by others.

So when you're working on typography, or on a design where you come to edit typography, make sure you keep in mind the science behind the typography!

Favourite place to source fonts & mockups.

This is exactly how to create our own covers for Instagram highlights using Canva and place them on your Instagram account.

Create your own covers to add to your profile's visual theme and brand.

STEP BY STEP tutorial of how to design Your Own Mock-ups with free app Canva | Create Your Own T-shirt and Tumbler Mock-up with free app. Stop buying your mockups!!! create your own.

How to make an Instagram puzzle feed seems to be a super hot topic for many of you and, since you requested it, we're super happy to share this tutorial with you! Getting more followers and interactions on your Instagram feed is quite a lot of work and dedication and sometimes inspiration is missing: creating a puzzle is actually a great way to draw attention and, if it's well done, it makes your feed look really nice. Plus, on Canva you can create your own puzzle for free using their ready-made templates... Let me show you how... and give you some extra personal tips!

In this video we are create awesome drop shadow text effect that helps you create your design & project looking like awesome so, please watch this tutorial till the end & learn how to use this.

Canva is the best platform that helps you to create your awesome design so we started a new series for canva tutorial for beginners

so, stay connected with us for more awesome graphics & design.

In this video, I'm gonna show you How To Make Instagram 3D Pop-Out Photo Effects In Canva so , watch this full tutorial.

In this video, I'm gonna show you how to change t-shirt colour in Canva in Canva so, watch this full tutorial.

Canva "From Wallpaper to Reality" Effect by Nino Justino

This is all done using Canva (Pro)

If you don't have Canva pro, you can use the tool below to remove the background for free

Remove.bg - (Removing backgrounds quick free and online when you don't have Canva Pro)

Time to level up your freebies and design gorgeous lead magnets with this new Canva Tutorial and give potential clients that ''wow'' experience + rep your legit brand.

In this video I'll teach you how to add a metalic or gold texture in text with Canva.

In today's Adobe Photoshop tutorial I'm going to show you a handy technique for creating a gold foil effect that looks just like the hot foil stamping printing finish that adds luxurious embellishments to printed products. We'll first create a shiny gold texture, then apply it to some text with the help of a mask. To simulate the appearance of real foil stamping, we'll finish it off with subtle effects like a paper texture and minor edge distortions.

In this photo editing tutorial, learn how to add a smooth blur to your photo backgrounds easily in photoshop. Fantasy soft light blurring effect.

First open the photo you would like to work on.

Now choose select and mask tool. i'm using ps cc 2017 version, if your version doesn't contain select and mask tool then you may use refine edge tool.

select view mode to your liking, I’ve already chosen to use On overlay mode.

Take Quick Selection Tool. click & drag the area you want to select.

The mark you make doesn’t need to be precise, because the Quick Selection tool automatically and instinctively creates a border.

Now we will want to have a look at our mask radius, so tick this "Show Radius" checkbox.

if you increase the "Radius" value sightly, you will see a outline appearing - that's the edge of our mask.

In this case i will set radius at 8px. If your image has both sharp and soft edges, select Smart Radius.

Untick show radius option.

Now use the "Refine Edge Brush Tool" to refine edges.

Brush over soft areas such as hair to add fine details to the selection.

When you've completed brushing the edges, take subtract selection tool and delete unnecessary selections.

Finally, tick the Decontaminate Colours box to remove any color fringing with the color of fully selected nearby pixels.

use the Output Settings. I almost always use New Layer with Layer Mask. Click the OK button, and you’re done.

we successfully cut out main subject from its background.

To see layer mask itself, hold down Alt/Opt key and click on layer mask thumbnail.

If we zoom in, you may notice some areas that needed some touchup.

Take soft brush and change brush blending mode to overlay. select black color and paint on areas to clean.

Now we need to remove main subject from the background.

To do that duplicate background layer CTRL + J Simply select the subject using lasso tool.

Now go to edit menu and fill the selection with content aware tool.

Deselect the selection CTRL + D.

Now we need to add lens blur to the layer. go to filter menu, select lens blur.

Add blur radius to your preference.

Image looks good enough. But i will add color lookup adjustments to make image more beautiful.

i will choose fall colors look to color tone the image.

That's it.

DSLR like Very Expensive Lens Photography. Shallow Depth of Field Effect Using Lens Blur. Blur Background Fantasy Photo Effect Editing. How to create Bokeh background blur. Fantasy Soft Light Photo Effects & Blur Background.

22 INSANELY USEFUL Canva Tips and Tricks 2021. In this video we will run through the best Canva tips for beginners and experts alike.

In this video, you will learn how to create product mockups with SmartMockups and Canva. Whether you want to create an eBook cover, book cover, t-shirt mockup, or laptop mockup, this step-by-step tutorial will show you how to use SmartMockups and Canva to create professional-looking product mockups.

How to create shadow for Elements in canva - Simple Hack - add shadow to text in Canva . It’s easy to create shadow for texts and images BUT how to add shadow for elements???? It’s super easy using a simple hack.

Photoshop is, without a doubt, one of the best photo editors that have ever been made, making it easy to see why it's also one of the most popular. It's been the industry leader in innovation for the past 30 years, with no sign of stopping anytime soon!

So let's celebrate 30 years of Photoshop by looking at 30 tips and tricks that all Photoshop users should know!

30 Tips & Tricks All Photoshop Users Should Know

1. Select Colors From Anywhere

Stop screenshotting things just to grab colors from them! Simply select the Eye Dropper tool, minimize Photoshop, click the dropper onto your canvas, and then drag anywhere outside of Photoshop!

2. Install Custom Photoshop Brushes

Don't feel tied to using just the brushes that come pre-installed in Photoshop. Try installing one of the thousands of brushes the internet has to offer by going into your bushes, clicking the Gear icon, and choosing Import Brushes.

3. How to Create a Rain Texture

Falling raindrops are a great way to add some drama to your photography, but sometimes nature doesn't agree with your plans. Make it rain yourself by creating a new layer filled with black, adding some Noise, then a slanted Motion Blur, and finally set the layer to Screen! Add some contrast, and you have instant rain.

4. Create a Quick Light Bleed Effect

Add a subtle light bleed to help blend any image by creating a new layer, and painting white towards the top of your image using a big fluffy white brush. Finish it off by lowering the opacity of the layer!

5. How to Use Blend If

Use Blend If to blend anything onto everything by double-clicking the layer you'd like to blend, going down to Blend If, and while holding Shift, playing with the sliders! The topmost layer will start blending into the layers below.

6. How to Copy Layer Styles Quickly

Have a layer style you need to apply to several other layers? Hold down the Alt key and drag the FX icon from the original layer to the target layers. The layer styles will be applied instantly—no need to fiddle with settings!

7. How to Create Multiple Stroke Effects on Text

Why have one line stroke when you could have two? Double-click the text layer to apply a Stroke layer effect. Press the Plus icon to add another Stroke. Add as many as you'd like!

8. Make a Trendy Double Exposure Effect

Create an easy double exposure effect by getting one high contrast black and white image, and then clipping a second image into it. Set the second image to Screen. The real magic is in the clever composition.

9. How to Merge Shapes

Create quick custom shapes using the shapes you've already created by selecting your shape layers and then Right-Click > Merge Shapes. Bam! Now multiple shapes have become one!

10. How to Use Motion Blur

Use Motion Blur to give some speed to any object by creating a feathered selection around the edges of an object and then adding a subtle Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

10. How to Use Motion Blur

Use Motion Blur to give some speed to any object by creating a feathered selection around the edges of an object and then adding a subtle Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

11. How to Create Instagram Photo Filters

Want the Instagram filter without having to log in to Instagram? Create a mustard-yellow Color Fill layer and then set it to Multiply. Instant vintage effect! Add some red on a layer set to Screen for added faded glory.

12. How to Create an Animation in Photoshop

Did you think Photoshop is just for image editing? Think again! Go to Window > Timeline and click on the Create Video Timeline icon to create GIFs and other simple animations!

13. How to Warp Text in Photoshop

With your text layer selected and the Type Tool active, look towards the top-right of the Type Tool's toolbar. You will see an icon of a "T" with a curved line underneath. Hit that icon to see a slew of built-in text arcs and bends!

14. How to Change a Brush’s Flow Rate

Having trouble blending your shadows? Select the Brush, look up to the top toolbar, and lower the brush's Flow. Now, each pass of the brush will slowly build up color, perfect for shading and lighting!

15. How to Paint Makeup

Forgot to hire a makeup artist for your shoot? No worries! Create a new layer, set it to Soft Light, and paint in the eyeshadow yourself! The Soft Light and Overlayer layer modes will turn you into a post-production makeup artist pro.

16. How to Make a Frequency Separation Photoshop Action

Do you ever wonder how photographers get that perfect high-fashion skin? It's called frequency separation! Split your image into two layers, one with a Gaussian Blur and the other with a High Pass filter. Set to Linear Light. Use the blurred layer to fix the color and skin tone and the high pass layer to fix the texture!

17. How to Use the Blur Gallery

Add more depth to your photos by blurring the background. Duplicate your image, and then go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Field Blur. Set your blur, and then mask out your subject, so that they are no longer blurred, but their background is. Instant depth!

18. How to Create Chromatic Aberration

Miss the old days of broken VHS tapes or glitchy 90s computer monitors? Duplicate your layer, double-click the layer, uncheck the R channel, and then move the layer over by 3-5 pixels. Finally, grab your 3D glasses!

19. How to Quickly Change Brush Size and Hardness

Did you know that you can use the square bracket keys [ and ] to change the size of your brush? You can also hold down Shift while tapping the bracket keys to change the hardness of the brush! All without having to visit the Brush panel!

20. How to Create a Smart Object

Layers automatically become Smart Objects when brought into Photoshop, but did you know you can turn any layer into a Smart Object? Start using this non-destructive editing powerhouse by right-clicking the layer and choosing Convert to Smart Object.

21. Hide Layers Quickly

Want to focus on one layer, but the others are in your way? Hold down the Alt key and click on the Eyeball icon of the layer you want to isolate. When you Alt-click again, the other layers will switch right back on.

22. What Is a Color Lookup Layer?

Want to add an instant color grade to your image? Use Photoshop's lesser-known Color Lookup adjustment layers! With dozens of presets to choose from, they make a great starting point for any color grade.

23. How to Create Guides in Photoshop

Did you know you can create a guide in Photoshop just by clicking and dragging on the side rulers? If you don't see the rulers, bring them in by hitting Control-R!

24. How to Get Rid of Color Banding in Photoshop

Having trouble with color banding? Banish that banding away by creating a new layer, filling it with black, adding a subtle Noise filter, and then setting the layer to screen! This will help disperse the colors and ease the banding.

25. How to Turn on Pressure-Sensitivity

Did you know that as long as you have a tablet, all brushes can use pressure sensitivity? Turn it on by going into the Brush Settings, Shape Dynamics, and then setting Control to Pen Pressure and Minimum Diameter to 0%.

26. How to Organize Your Brushes

Long gone are the days of unorganized, chaotic brushes! Go into your Brush panel and Right-Click > Create Group to tidy up and sort your brushes.

27. Give Yourself More Undos

Ever wish you could just have one more undo? Well, you can actually have up to 1,000! Go to Edit > Prefences > Performance to set your History States. I'd keep them around 75 or lower, however.

28. How to Create a Photoshop Brush

Did you know that you can turn any black and white image into a custom brush? Once your image or object is greyscaled, crop it down as small as you can and then go to Edit > Define Brush Preset.

29. How to Use a Layer Style on an Empty Layer

Want the layer style but not the layer? Add a layer style to your layer, and then bring the layer's Fill down to 0%!

30. How to Use Refine Edge in Photoshop

Is the Quick Selection tool not doing it for you, but you don't have time to extract everything by hand? Once you have a quick selection around your subject, add a Layer Mask, and double-click it. Choose Select and Mask. Here you will find the Refine Edge Brush. Check the Smart Radius box and then get to brushing. Photoshop will refine the edge to near perfection!

QUICK SUMMARY ↬ The article will cover 5 main principles which will provide you with the practical guidance how to select, apply and mix different fonts. In the end, you will learn how to pick the right typeface and what it requires.

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations.

Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography.

1. Dress For The Occasion #

Many of my beginning students go about picking a font as though they were searching for new music to listen to: they assess the personality of each face and look for something unique and distinctive that expresses their particular aesthetic taste, perspective and personal history. This approach is problematic, because it places too much importance on individuality.

For better or for worse, picking a typeface is more like getting dressed in the morning. Just as with clothing, there’s a distinction between typefaces that are expressive and stylish versus those that are useful and appropriate to many situations, and our job is to try to find the right balance for the occasion. While appropriateness isn’t a sexy concept, it’s the acid test that should guide our choice of font.

My “favorite” piece of clothing is probably an outlandish pair of 70s flare bellbottoms that I bought at a thrift store, but the reality is that these don’t make it out of my closet very often outside of Halloween. Every designer has a few favorite fonts like this — expressive personal favorites that we hold onto and wait for the perfect festive occasion to use. More often, I find myself putting on the same old pair of Levis morning after morning. It’s not that I like these better than my cherished flares, exactly… I just seem to wind up wearing them most of the time.

Every designer has a few workhorse typefaces that are like comfortable jeans: they go with everything, they seem to adapt to their surroundings and become more relaxed or more formal as the occasion calls for, and they just seem to come out of the closet day after day. Usually, these are faces that have a number of weights (Light, Regular, Bold, etc) and/or cuts (Italic, Condensed, etc). My particular safety blankets are: Myriad, Gotham, DIN, Akzidenz Grotesk and Interstate among the sans; Mercury, Electra and Perpetua among the serif faces.

2. Know Your Families: Grouping Fonts #

The clothing analogy gives us a good idea of what kind of closet we need to put together. The next challenge is to develop some kind of structure by which we can mentally categorize the different typefaces we run across.

Typefaces can be divided and subdivided into dozens of categories (Scotch Modern, anybody?), but we only really need to keep track of five groups to establish a working understanding of the majority of type being used in the present-day landscape.

The following list is not meant as a comprehensive classification of each and every category of type (there are plenty of great sites on the web that already tackle this, such as Typedia’s type classifications) but rather as a manageable shorthand overview of key groups. Let’s look at two major groups without serifs (serifs being the little feet at the ends of the letterforms), two with serifs, and one outlier (with big, boxey feet).

1. GEOMETRIC SANS #

I’m actually combining three different groups here (Geometric, Realist and Grotesk), but there is enough in common between these groups that we can think of them as one entity for now. Geometric Sans-Serifs are those faces that are based on strict geometric forms. The individual letter forms of a Geometric Sans often have strokes that are all the same width and frequently evidence a kind of “less is more” minimalism in their design.

At their best, Geometric Sans are clear, objective, modern, universal; at their worst, cold, impersonal, boring. A classic Geometric Sans is like a beautifully designed airport: it’s impressive, modern and useful, but we have to think twice about whether or not we’d like to live there.

Examples of Geometric/Realist/Grotesk Sans: Helvetica, Univers, Futura, Avant Garde, Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Gotham.

2. HUMANIST SANS #

These are Sans faces that are derived from handwriting — as clean and modern as some of them may look, they still retain something inescapably human at their root. Compare the ‘t’ in the image above to the ‘t’ in ‘Geometric’ and note how much more detail and idiosyncrasy the Humanist ‘t’ has.

detail and idiosyncrasy the Humanist ‘t’ has.

This is the essence of the Humanist Sans: whereas Geometric Sans are typically designed to be as simple as possible, the letter forms of a Humanist font generally have more detail, less consistency, and frequently involve thinner and thicker stoke weights — after all they come from our handwriting, which is something individuated. At their best, Humanist Sans manage to have it both ways: modern yet human, clear yet empathetic. At their worst, they seem wishy-washy and fake, the hand servants of corporate insincerity.

Examples of Humanist Sans: Gill Sans, Frutiger, Myriad, Optima, Verdana.

3. OLD STYLE #

Also referred to as ‘Venetian’, these are our oldest typefaces, the result of centuries of incremental development of our calligraphic forms. Old Style faces are marked by little contrast between thick and thin (as the technical restrictions of the time didn’t allow for it), and the curved letter forms tend to tilt to the left (just as calligraphy tilts). Old Style faces at their best are classic, traditional, readable and at their worst are… well, classic and traditional.

Examples of Old Style: Jenson, Bembo, Palatino, and — especially — Garamond, which was considered so perfect at the time of its creation that no one really tried much to improve on it for a century and a half.

4. TRANSITIONAL AND MODERN #

An outgrowth of Enlightenment thinking, Transitional (mid 18th Century) and Modern (late 18th century, not to be confused with mid 20th century modernism) typefaces emerged as type designers experimented with making their letterforms more geometric, sharp and virtuosic than the unassuming faces of the Old Style period. Transitional faces marked a modest advancement in this direction — although Baskerville, a quintessential Transitional typeface, appeared so sharp to onlookers that people believed it could hurt one’s vision to look at it.

In carving Modernist punches, type designers indulged in a kind of virtuosic demonstration of contrasting thick and thin strokes — much of the development was spurred by a competition between two rival designers who cut similar faces, Bodoni and Didot. At their best, transitional and modern faces seem strong, stylish, dynamic. At their worst, they seem neither here nor there — too conspicuous and baroque to be classic, too stodgy to be truly modern.

5. SLAB SERIFS #

Also known as ‘Egyptian’ (don’t ask), the Slab Serif is a wild card that has come strongly back into vogue in recent years. Slab Serifs usually have strokes like those of sans faces (that is, simple forms with relatively little contrast between thick and thin) but with solid, rectangular shoes stuck on the end. Slab Serifs are an outlier in the sense that they convey very specific — and yet often quite contradictory — associations: sometimes the thinker, sometimes the tough guy; sometimes the bully, sometimes the nerd; sometimes the urban sophisticate, sometimes the cowboy.

They can convey a sense of authority, in the case of heavy versions like Rockwell, but they can also be quite friendly, as in the recent favorite Archer. Many slab serifs seem to express an urban character (such as Rockwell, Courier and Lubalin), but when applied in a different context (especially Clarendon) they strongly recall the American Frontier and the kind of rural, vernacular signage that appears in photos from this period. Slab Serifs are hard to generalize about as a group, but their distinctive blocky serifs function something like a pair of horn-rimmed glasses: they add a distinctive wrinkle to anything, but can easily become overly conspicuous in the wrong surroundings.

Examples of Slab Serifs: Clarendon, Rockwell, Courier, Lubalin Graph, Archer.

3. Don’t Be A Wimp: The Principle Of Decisive Contrast #

So, now that we know our families and some classic examples of each, we need to decide how to mix and match and — most importantly — whether to mix and match at all. Most of the time, one typeface will do, especially if it’s one of our workhorses with many different weights that work together. If we reach a point where we want to add a second face to the mix, it’s always good to observe this simple rule: keep it exactly the same, or change it a lot — avoid wimpy, incremental variations.

This is a general principle of design, and its official name is correspondence and contrast. The best way to view this rule in action is to take all the random coins you collected in your last trip through Europe and dump them out on a table together. If you put two identical coins next to each other, they look good together because they match (correspondence). On the other hand, if we put a dime next to one of those big copper coins we picked up somewhere in Central Europe, this also looks interesting because of the contrast between the two — they look sufficiently different.

What doesn’t work so well is when put our dime next to a coin from another country that’s almost the same size and color but slightly different. This creates an uneasy visual relationship because it poses a question, even if we barely register it in on a conscious level — our mind asks the question of whether these two are the same or not, and that process of asking and wondering distracts us from simply viewing.

When we combine multiple typefaces on a design, we want them to coexist comfortably — we don’t want to distract the viewer with the question, are these the same or not? We can start by avoiding two different faces from within one of the five categories that we listed above all together — two geometric sans, say Franklin and Helvetica. While not exactly alike, these two are also not sufficiently different and therefore put our layout in that dreaded neither-here-nor-there place.

If we are going to throw another font into the pot along with Helvetica, much better if we use something like Bembo, a classic Old Style face. Centuries apart in age and light years apart in terms of inspiration, Helvetica and Bembo have enough contrast to comfortably share a page:

Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as just picking fonts that are very, very different — placing our candy cane font next to, say, Garamond or Caslon does not guarantee us typographic harmony. Often, as in the above example of Helvetica and Bembo, there’s no real explanation for why two faces complement each other — they just do.

But if we want some principle to guide our selection, it should be this: often, two typefaces work well together if they have one thing in common but are otherwise greatly different. This shared common aspect can be visual (similar x-height or stroke weight) or it can be chronological. Typefaces from the same period of time have a greater likelihood of working well together… and if they are by the same designer, all the better.

4. A Little Can Go A Long Way #

‘Enough with all these conventional-looking fonts and rules!’ you say. ‘I need something for my rave flyer! And my Thai restaurant menu! And my Christmas cards!’ What you’re pointing out here is that all the faces I’ve discussed so far are ‘body typefaces’, meaning you could conceivably set a whole menu or newspaper with any of them; in the clothing analogy presented in part one, these are our everyday Levis. What of our Halloween flares?

Periodically, there’s a need for a font that oozes with personality, whether that personality is warehouse party, Pad Thai or Santa Claus. And this need brings us into the vast wilderness of Display typefaces, which includes everything from Comic Sans to our candy-cane and bunny fonts. ‘Display’ is just another way of saying ‘do not exceed recommended dosage’: applied sparingly to headlines, a display font can add a well-needed dash of flavor to a design, but it can quickly wear out its welcome if used too widely.

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5. Rule Number Five Is ‘There Are No Rules’ #

Really. Look hard enough and you will find a dazzling-looking menu set entirely in a hard-to-read display font. Or of two different Geometric Sans faces living happily together on a page (in fact, just this week I wound up trying this on a project and was surprised to find that it hit the spot). There are only conventions, no ironclad rules about how to use type, just as there are no rules about how we should dress in the morning. It’s worth trying everything just to see what happens — even wearing your Halloween flares to your court date.

In Conclusion #

Hopefully, these five principles will have given you some guidelines for how to select, apply and mix type — and, indeed, whether to mix it at all. In the end, picking typefaces requires a combination of understanding and intuition, and — as with any skill — demands practice. With all the different fonts we have access to nowadays, it’s easy to forget that there’s nothing like a classic typeface used well by somebody who knows how to use it.

Some of the best type advice I ever received came early on from my first typography teacher: pick one typeface you like and use it over and over for months to the exclusion of all others. While this kind of exercise can feel constraining at times, it can also serve as a useful reminder that the quantity of available choices in the internet age is no substitute for quality.

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