Have you ever tried to put together some shelves, but you didn’t have the right tools? You’ve got all of the pieces to build them—boards, nails, and screws—yet, it seems impossible to mash these elements together into a usable piece of furniture. A shoe or butter knife might do the job, but it’ll be a heck of a lot more difficult and an unstable product in the end. That’s kind of what using the wrong graphic design software is like.…

It sure seems like everyone sings their praises to Photoshop. Of course, it’s an incredibly powerful program with a load of features so vast and robust, you could spend a lifetime learning everything it can do. In the graphic design world though, you’d be surprised that Photoshop isn’t the main program for a lot of artists. Illustrator is. Illustrator is included with Adobe Creative Cloud and is the first program that most graphic design students learn. It is flexible, powerful,…

No one likes their photos straight out of the can. Especially for fashion and bridal photography, your clients want to look their absolute best. That means glowing, blemish-free skin, colors that pop, and not a hair out of place. Touching up portrait photography is kind of a nightmare. Even the most beautiful models need some color adjustments to make the picture sing. With that level of detail, Photoshop actions can help make your workflow quicker. With a touch of a…

One of the best gifts that Photoshop gave to the creative community over the years is time. If you’ve ever developed photography the old fashioned way in a traditional darkroom, painstakingly working on the contrast of the images you captured, you know what I mean. Before technology took hold, graphic designers rendered many of their designs by hand. Their jobs involved the painstakingly slow task of creating pasteboards and mockups using photos and art cut by hand. Photoshop, when you…

When you have a lot of layers in your Photoshop file, it’s sometimes useful to merge layers together in order to reduce the total number of layers in your project. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to merge layers in Photoshop, when you should and shouldn’t use merge layers, as well as exploring some alternatives to merging layers. A refresher on the concept of layers Layers are one of the most basic functions of Photoshop. Think of them like sheets…

Have you seen those awesome 3D photos in your Facebook news-feed lately? In this post, you’ll learn how to manually create one from scratch on your computer using Photoshop. We even include a free Photoshop template you can use for creating a depth map. (A depth map is the secret sauce for creating a 3D image on Facebook.) Facebook 3D photo overview In late 2018, Facebook announced the 3D photos feature, which allowed iPhone users (supposedly works on other phones…

4 free Instagram post templates for Photoshop. Editable with Photoshop CC and CS. 1080px x 1080px banners. Use them for Instagram, Pinterest or featured image on your blog post. Resize to use them as regular web banners.

Create a Tik Tok app style text with few simple steps. You can also directly download the text style from the end of the post and use it in Photoshop and create the look with one click.

Free gold social media icons download. All icons are 128x128px PNG on a transparent background so you can use them on any color background. Do you think it’s missing an important social media icon? Leave a comment and let me know. I might add it and build the freebie up on request.

Enhance the details in your photo with these free HDR actions. Includes 2 faux HDR actions for you to bring out the details in your pictures. The actions are 100% customizable and non-destructive.

3 free gold layer styles to make your text sparkle. The download includes 1 ASL file with 3 styles, gold foil and gold glitter layer styles.

This free snow action set for Photoshop will add snow and tone to your photo and turn them in to a beautiful winter scene photos. Includes 3 actions.

In this tutorial, we are going to create a resume template in Photoshop. The resume will include adjustable donut charts, bar charts, icons and for demonstration purposes, a photo. You can replace the photo with a monogram if you don’t want/need to use a photo.

Free summer flyer download for photoshop. The summer flyer is fully layered and you can edit all the details, colors and elements. Designed for print but you can save it for web and use it online as well to promote your party.