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  • 4 Project Management Tools for Working From Home
    Web & App Design

    4 Project Management Tools for Working From Home

    Work more efficiently from home and make the most of your time with these tools The evolution of technology and the democratization of the internet have made working from home a daily reality for many. Managing projects remotely means that teams can be completely decentralized–a designer in Peru can successfully work on a project for a client in Europe without ever meeting face to face. Foncho Ramírez-Corzo (@cholutions)–a digital marketing expert and consultant–embraces and applauds the home office trend. In this blog, he shares a list of project management tools that will transform your working-from-home routine and help you juggle different tasks and stay organized.

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  • What Kind of 3D Projects Can You Create Using Maya?
    Web & App Design

    What Kind of 3D Projects Can You Create Using Maya?

    3D artist Albert Valls Punsich shows us the incredible scope of this powerful software Albert Valls Punsich (@albert_valls_punsich) specializes in creating 3D digital worlds and modeling and VFX scenarios for film and television. Part of the production company Framestore, he has worked on films such as Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

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  • Whorl, The App to Awaken Your Creativity
    Design

    Whorl, The App to Awaken Your Creativity

    Discover the app that awakens your creativity by appealing to a basic exercise of the imagination: play. There is one significant difference in the way a child thinks compared to an adult. Children can think up and arrive at solutions a grown up would never imagine. Their creativity is boundless and stems from their ability for playfulness, something most of us adults have long forgotten. The Whorl app–designed with adults in mind, but suitable for children alike–aims to awaken our creativity through play.

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  • Storyboarder: Free Digital Storyboarding Software
    Web & App Design

    Storyboarder: Free Digital Storyboarding Software

    This tool allows anyone to create a digital storyboard in just a few seconds, as if it were on paper The maxim that "less is more" becomes especially relevant when speaking about apps. Even more so when we discover that simplifying how they work doesn’t reduce their functionality. Storyboarder, a free and open source software for sketching stories digitally, complies perfectly with this premise, getting rid of unnecessary tools and embracing extreme simplicity to make creating a digital storyboard practically the same as doing it on paper.

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  • Kidpofy: An App to Preserve Children's Handwriting
    Web & App Design

    Kidpofy: An App to Preserve Children's Handwriting

    This site allows us to preserve children's handwriting and use it and any imaginable format Who hasn't ever seen a notebook or drawing from their childhood and been surprised to see the difference between their handwriting then, through their adolescence, to now? Its offers a special window to the past that we risk losing if we only preserve it physically. Kidpofy is a calligraphy digitization project that takes advantage of technology to preserve the handwriting of our children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces. We can then use it in postcards, letters, decorative objects, or anything else we can think of. The process is very simple: on the project's website (with optimized access for cell phones or tablets), children can write the entire alphabet following some practical guides. The letters are then stored in the project's database.

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  • Basic DJ Equipment for Beginners
    Music & Audio

    Basic DJ Equipment for Beginners

    Discover the setup recommended by Chuck Pereda for mixing electronic music Always wanted your own DJ setup? Before you start preparing your set and get ready to make your DJ debut, you will need some basic equipment (in addition to a love of music.) Chuck Pereda (@chuck_pereda), a DJ and radio presenter with more than two decades’ of experience, shares a basic list of essential equipment for beginner DJs. Chuck wants to point out that you will be able to acquire the following material second-hand. These are just recommendations, get together what you can, and turn up the volume.

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  • Over 9000 Free Botanical Illustrations Made by Women
    Web & App Design

    Over 9000 Free Botanical Illustrations Made by Women

    Enjoy this free collection that celebrates the work of female scientists throughout history Women have contributed enormously to biodiversity research and the study of nature. They have collected specimens, researched new species, published books and catalogs, and drawn detailed scientific and botanical illustrations. Women's contributions to science become more significant when considering the obstacles they have had to face throughout history. To honor their work, the Biodiversity Heritage Library compiled this album of female scientists' illustrations from the last three hundred years.

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  • Dot Lung's Favorite Social Media Tools
    Web & App Design

    Dot Lung's Favorite Social Media Tools

    Discover the apps and services that will make your social media strategy stand out It goes without saying: having a social media strategy is essential for any creative. It's the best way to showcase your talent and interact with your community. But, with so much content going around, getting your own creations to stand out can be a challenge.

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  • 12 Great Free Resources for YouTubers
    Web & App Design

    12 Great Free Resources for YouTubers

    These sites and tools will help you perfect and promote your channel We all know that videos are an excellent way to connect. Users prefer video content, and creativity channels are becoming more popular every day. Whether you already have a YouTube channel or are considering starting one soon, the following tools will help you reach its full potential. YouTube Studio This is the dashboard where you can start your channel and create content by uploading videos or streaming live. In this official YouTube tool, you will find helpful tips and all the relevant tools for creators to add audio, review your channels’ statistics,manage monetization, and more.

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  • Bring Your Drawings to Life With This App
    Web & App Design

    Bring Your Drawings to Life With This App

    Learn to use RakugakiAR and make your creations move around in the real world using the magic of augmented reality Have you ever imagined the characters in your illustrations coming to life and jumping out of the paper? That is precisely what RakugakiAR can do thanks to the magic of augmented reality. Created by a team of developers in Japan, this app is guaranteed to put a smile on your face from the very first time you use it.

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  • Oculus Quill: A Tool for Creating VR Universes
    Design

    Oculus Quill: A Tool for Creating VR Universes

    Get to know this design program and learn to paint within a virtual world Federico Moreno Breser (@jackmcfly) is a digital artist and animation director with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. In 2005, he founded Mcfly Studio, one of the most well-known animation studios in Argentina, where he is from. In 2012, he launched a magazine called Moushon! and, three years later, he created Luty Art Studio–an art department dedicated to developing art and concept art for the film, animation, and video game industries.

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  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for TVPaint Animation
    Web & App Design

    Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for TVPaint Animation

    Discover the keyboard shortcuts of one of the most popular 2D illustration and animation programs around TVPaint Animation, with After Effects and Toon Boom Harmony, is one of the most complete and used 2D illustration and animation programs on the market. The program allows you to make storyboards, character designs, and boasts other tools that will help you create two-dimensional animations in the best way possible. A good animator needs to be fast and efficient and, as you use TVPaint Animation, you will realize the amount of time it can save you knowing these useful keyboard shortcuts. Here we compile some of the basic shortcuts on TVPaint Animation:

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  • These Are the Design Apps the Domestika Community Loves
    Design

    These Are the Design Apps the Domestika Community Loves

    We asked the Domestika community on Instagram what their favorite design apps are, and here are the results A good app can inspire you to start a new project, deal with those little repetitive tasks that take the fun out of your creative process, or encourage you to explore new techniques. With this in mind, we asked the Domestika community on Instagram what their favorite design apps are; what programs help them to be more productive or creative. These are your favorites. Mojo Stories have become one of the main features of Instagram and a valuable tool to share creative projects. Fast-paced, fun to watch, and highly addictive, these snippets can be used to tell stories or show a technique. But it can feel a little bit constrained sometimes. Creating attractive designs requires time and effort. Mojo solves this by giving the user hundreds of stunning templates to choose that create eye-catching animated slides, unlock new narrative avenues, and take stories to the next level. A great tool to boost engagement in all of your social posts.

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  • Pixelmator Photo: Edit Like a Professional Using Your iPad
    Photography

    Pixelmator Photo: Edit Like a Professional Using Your iPad

    This photo editing app will convert your iPad into a mini studio that competes with any desktop software Pixelmator is a family of programs and apps, which serves as a basic and intuitive alternative to Photoshop, available for Mac users and all other iOS devices. Now, the company has launched Pixelmator Photo, an iPad app that makes the most of all the benefits this tablet has to offer for editing photos. Pixelmator Photo has a number of features that demonstrate that we can retouch photos from our iPad to professional standards. These are some of the stand-out tools that the app offers:

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  • 7 Free Resources for Bloggers
    Web & App Design

    7 Free Resources for Bloggers

    Make the most of these online tools to improve your blog and reach the right audience For different industries and services, blogs are powerful allies when it comes to reaching your target audience. They allow you to communicate with potential clients and share products, creative processes, and future plans. Or, maybe you want to run one just because you enjoy sharing and exchanging ideas with other people working in the same sector as you. Discover seven resources that will help your blog grow without needing to be an expert in design, content marketing, or programming. Optimizing Images: Tinypng Tinypng will help you compress your images in JPG and PNG format without losing quality (in some cases you can achieve compressions of up to 70%). It’s always advisable to reduce the size of your photos so that your web page can load quicker. It has a Photoshop plugin (plus many other useful tools) that will allow you to preview your images and easily adjust their size.

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  • Monetization Platforms for Creatives
    Web & App Design

    Monetization Platforms for Creatives

    Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of sites like Patreon that allow you to diversify your income More and more creatives are turning to crowdfunding websites to monetize their work these days. There are different platforms where your followers can make small donations to support your creative and artistic work, but not all are alike. Learn about what should consider before choosing any of these platforms, as well as some options available to you. The first thing you should know Donations are not going to start flowing magically. It is good practice to integrate these options into your social media strategy and include information about your crowdfunding account in your social media and website profiles. For example, some creatives periodically make short videos on YouTube or on Instagram and Facebook Stories to ask their followers to contribute. Some will find creatives and projects to support using the search engines on each platform, so you must include complete information about yourself and your work.

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  • 40 Basic Keyboard Shortcuts for Pro Tools
    Web & App Design

    40 Basic Keyboard Shortcuts for Pro Tools

    Discover the basic keyboard shortcuts for one of the most popular audio editing programs Pro Tools is one of the most popular DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) among the creative community involved in audiovisual projects. Due to its friendly interface and the wide variety of plugins it offers for recording, editing, and mixing audio, it has been one of the most recommended software packages of the last three decades for sound professionals. One of the most valued features is that it works both in MacOS and Windows, so it offers flexibility for all kinds of users. Get to know the basic shortcuts —compatible with both platforms— that will optimize your workflow. Download a PDF filw with these shortcuts at the end of this post.

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  • More than 270,000 Free Nature Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
    Web & App Design

    More than 270,000 Free Nature Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Discover this free catalog of nature illustrations dating back hundreds of years and boost your creativity The Biodiversity Heritage Library has been dubbed the world’s largest open-access digital library for resources on natural history and biodiversity. Right now, the world is experiencing a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change. Aware that many heads are better than one, the Biodiversity Heritage Library was launched to pull together resources from libraries all around the world, pushing to advance global research by digitizing their collections and provide free worldwide access to its catalog.

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  • All The Apps You Need to Create Pixel Art
    Web & App Design

    All The Apps You Need to Create Pixel Art

    Daniel Benítez shares a list of software for creating pixel art Daniel Benítez (@dabntz) is the art director and founder of Fourattic, an independent video game studio. He specializes in pixel art, a technique he used when developing the video game Crossing Souls. He uses the pixel as the smallest digital element to obtain an aesthetic similar to that of classic video games.

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  • 8 Free Websites to Draw Poses
    Web & App Design

    8 Free Websites to Draw Poses

    Discover original resources to practice your anatomical drawing Gabriel Suchowolski (@microbians) asked the Domestika community to share some of their favorite resources to practice drawing poses. Below you will find a collection of sites that were shared to help people practice anatomical drawing, develop characters, and discover new ways to approach their art. Pose Space This site allows you to search for all kinds of poses by professional artistic models. Its search engine filters photos by position, genre, lighting, nude photos, and more. There are images to view, download and buy. If you want to save poses, you will need to create an account.

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  • 5 Websites with Free Mockups For Brand, Image and Packaging Design
    Design

    5 Websites with Free Mockups For Brand, Image and Packaging Design

    Discover thousands of editable templates for your packaging designs on these websites Find mockups and reference files that will help you adapt your own designs: no matter if it's for stationery, packaging, or merch, its variety will allow you to take your creativity wherever you want for free and easily. GraphicBurger Raul Taciu is a self-defined Photoshop addict. He created this platform to share his passion and make a wide variety of editable .psd files ready to be integrated into your design ideas. All mockups are royalty-free for both personal and commercial use, and no credit is necessary for creators who contribute to the international creative community’s database.

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  • Creative Tools: HTML
    Design

    Creative Tools: HTML

    This is how the language websites are built with came to be All the websites you have visited share a similar basic structure. Regardless of their complexity, they are built with programming languages ​​that make a site have large or small fonts, bright colors, drop-down menus, or videos. This is how the first, and still the most-used, website building language, HTML, came to be.

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  • 14 Free Typographic Resources
    Web & App Design

    14 Free Typographic Resources

    Discover free websites and tools for your typographic design projects Typography is an essential element for any design project. Regardless of your degree of experience, the sites and resources we have highlighted here will help you research, create, and play with different fonts. Research and inspiration What The Font Have you ever seen a typeface that you like but cannot identify? This site solves this problem. It allows you to upload an image match your font with one of over 130,000 fonts in its database. It will also find similar fonts you can use in your projects.

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  • 7 Free Design Tools
    Design

    7 Free Design Tools

    These websites have you covered for all your graphic, editorial, web, and identity design needs There is nothing more exciting for a graphic designer than starting a project from scratch and creating all its visual elements. Sometimes, however, you need tools to kickstart your creative process. Here is a list of free resources that will inspire you and help you during the research phase. We have also shared tools for downloading free vectors and images that will save you time when creating presentations for a client. Maps Stamen If you are ever have to create layouts that include maps, this site will help you. It contains maps from all around the world and allows you to download them with different styles. For example, you can obtain high contrast maps in black and white, or with watercolor effects. You can show the elevation and vegetation of any given area... there's even a map of Mars! It uses the OpenStreetMap open license, so keep in mind that using the tool is free, but requires attribution.

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