There’s nothing worse than slaving over a design just to realize it’s low resolution and won’t print very well. Or, even worse, sell it to someone and have them send you a nasty message about how pixelated and blurry the printed version of your design ended up. What went wrong? Most likely, it was the …
In so many ways, technology has made our lives a lot easier. We can magically edit photos with one click, make designs from endless amounts of stock photos, and create beautiful pieces of art. Wait, wait, wait; that last one isn’t easy. Digital art is surprisingly hard. Maybe we love drawing with pencil and paper …
Procreate is a powerhouse of a program, but that sometimes means that the most basic of functions can be hard to figure out. There’s no easy “⌘C and ⌘V” to help you out when you’re using a touchscreen without a keyboard. Luckily, Procreate understands the importance of copying and pasting and makes it easy to …
The great thing about iPads is that they are touch sensitive and we can use our fingers to operate them. Most of the time, our fingers are our styluses of choice! It gets a little bit murky though when we’re talking about drawing programs like Procreate. Can you actually use your finger to create amazing …
Procreate is a drawing and art program that has really become one of the hallmarks of the digital art world since its launch in 2011. To say that it is a powerhouse is an understatement. I LOVE Procreate and can honestly give a glowing Procreate review. Procreate is a digital art app that is worth …
There’s no doubt that Canva is taking the digital design world by massive storm. It’s easy to use, powerful, and downright beautiful. I started out as a free user of Canva and was really impressed with everything it could do. Once I was hooked, I decided to give the free trial of Canva Pro a …
Canva is a powerful program for designing cards, banners, infographics, social media posts, and more. One feature that people often forget though is Canva’s ability to make beautiful presentations. With tons of pre-made templates, Canva makes it easy to spice up even the most boring of topics. Once you’re done, Canva has its own presentation …
Whether you’re a seasoned graphic designer or not, curving text is something that most of us will need to do at some point in our design lives. Just look around and see how often it’s incorporated into the designs we see around us. Luckily, Canva DOES have a text curving option! There’s also a way …
Transparent overlays can add a lot of style and class to a design. They can be customized to match a brand’s color scheme, can tone down images so that words or elements pop, and let designers have more control over the colors that their designs highlight. In Canva, you can make a transparent overlay by …
The free version of Canva has a lot of capabilities. It’s an amazing, easy to use, free choice for designers. That said, one of the biggest features you lose by going with the free version as opposed to the Pro is being able to resize images. With the free version, you cannot change the size …