Tutorials

Banner design for AHOJ! Souvenirmanufaktur

PVC vinyl banners are an ideal way to make your brand stand out. These eye-catching advertising tools are real head-turners in exhibition halls, at construction fences or sports ev...

Logo design made easy

Designing a logo is an art in itself. The aim of a logo is to represent a company or product. To make sure that the logo is appropriate for the company or the product, there are so...

Embedding fonts with InDesign, Photoshop & Illustr...

Users can choose from an almost infinite variety of fonts: whether the Arial typeface included with Microsoft Windows or the popular Helvetica font to implement your print projects...
Photoshop Actions

Creating, loading and using Photoshop actions

Does this sound familiar: You want to enhance your photos visually and repeat the same editing steps over and over again? Fortunately, there is an easier way: Photoshop actions ena...
Google Nik Collection

Photoshop tutorial: Google Nik Collection

Users were enthusiastic when Google made the Google Nik Collection available for free in March 2016. Google promises users to "easily create the photos you've imagined" with this A...

Gold in CMYK

You don't have to buy expensive jewellery to enjoy the luxury of gold. Make your graphic design projects sparkle too by adding a touch of class and sophistication using gold highli...
Featured Picture: 5th colour

The 5th colour: relief varnish, UV coating and spot col...

Whether you add relief varnish, blacklight ink or a spot colour to highlight elements in your artwork, the steps required to do this are always the same in Adobe InDesign. This tut...

20 free Photoshop brushes you will love

There is a huge variety of free Photoshop brushes out there. To spare you the hassle of downloading, installing and trying out the different types, we have put together the best br...

Tutorial: Designing an ambigram in 5 steps

Ambi-what? You have no clue what an ambigram is? That's a shame really because ambigrams are special. They add a modern, tasteful and contemporary touch to designs. However, creati...

Ctrl + E: Exporting print-ready PDFs with InDesign

When an online print shop asks you to supply "print-ready PDF files", chances are you don't have a clue what they are talking about. That's not surprising since not everyone is flu...