graphic design tips i found on tiktok that changed my life: a thread 🧵✨
this one is helpful for streamers! how to make your own animated alerts:
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including this one because the idea is honestly ‼️ GENIUS ‼️ for building your portfolio!
how to warp text into a shape in adobe illustrator ✨
(this works with any shape, I’ll include more examples in this thread!)
a tip for making sure your fonts are a good pair! It’s such a simple tip but it makes so much sense 🤯
another cutting out difficult objects in photoshop tutorial:
how to easily make ✨ sparkles ✨ in illustrator without using the pen tool 🥺
matching neon lighting in a photoshop composite (lowkey this one still kinda blows my mind)
easily add text to 3D objects in adobe illustrator ✨
I’ll add more to this thread as I find them, these were just the ones I had saved already! 💛
Creating illustrator brushes from vector images:
How to blend a design realistically on a non-flat surface ✨
note: for multicolor designs just skip the color overlay step and change your blending mode to linear light!)
pulling a color palette real time using the Pantone app ☺️
A method for creating custom mockups in photoshop ✨
how to make fuzzy text in illustrator ✨
adobe illustrator’s free transform tool ✨
creating color palettes in illustrator easily using blend mode ✨
creating a fake rgb lighting effect in photoshop ✨
(this guy has a ton of amazing tips, so definitely check out his tiktok / YouTube channel @kevincharlesdc!)
placing designs on any texture using photoshop’s texture mapping method ✨
stuck on ideas for a portfolio piece? try redesigning a board game! ✨
easily create 8-Bit type in photoshop ✨
how to digitize larger pieces of artwork in photoshop (without having to painfully sit there and align everything by hand 🥴) ✨
How to roughen up clean lines in adobe illustrator ✨
font matching in adobe photoshop ✨
this ones for my lovely streamers but here’s how to make a repeating pattern background on Streamlabs OBS ✨
Needing some content ideas? Here’s a few to get the ball rolling ✨
#smm #socialmediamarketing
what to include when delivering the final files to a client ✨
another video on placing text perspectively ✨
(this one is so easy I wanted to scream watching it bc I didn’t know it was actually that easy)
creating a seamless instagram carousel on photoshop ✨
this is actually a banger for your feed. 10/10
every day i research for this thread is another day i realize I am a fraud ‼️‼️‼️ IDK WHAT IM DOING WITH ANY OF THE ADOBE PROGRAMS ‼️‼️‼️
saving image assets in photoshop ✨
(without having to save everything individually bc that’s what I’ve been doing and I feel like a whole 🤡)
easily create accurate perspective interiors for your drawings using procreate ✨
creating a globe wireframe (vaporwave aesthetic) in illustrator ✨
Chrome extensions for designers ✨
(color picking, font finding, and coding /css/indexes)
✨ using typekit’s font photo scanner to find similar fonts!
✨ Custom 3d mockups using things.morflax.com
✨ who was gonna tell me there was a color meter eye dropper already installed on Mac launchpad 😔
✨how to draw pixel art on procreate!
✨ how to make a glass orb effect in photoshop
✨ how to make a seamless puzzle grid in photoshop for instagram (I’m so excited to use this one for something I’ve been wanting to learn this forever 😭)
✨ understanding accessibility in fonts, and making sure you’re choosing good options for everybody 💛
✨ making a 3d postcard effect in adobe illustrator
✨ tips for synchronization on adobe premiere pro
✨ create and edit 3D vectors
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