Setting up templates for documents you need to create often, like social media posts, can shave hours (if not weeks) off the time you spend in the office. Organising your computer files, creating templates, labelling and naming items properly according to a system can...
Exciting new update to the Portrait Creator!
Can you believe the first two months of 2018 are pretty much done and dusted! I usually take it easy over this period (our summer months), but instead I decided to put my head down and work hard on completing the latest update to the Portrait Creator. And I'm so glad...
How to change the hair colour in Adobe Photoshop
The Personalised Portrait Creator includes 5 standard hair colours with each hairstyle. But what if the person you are creating has blue hair? Or pink hair? Or even green hair! The good news is, you can quickly and easily change the colour of any hairstyle in Adobe...
A look at the process of design
In this weeks episode of the Honest Designers Show, we talk about each of our design processes. We look at everything from the initial brainstorm, to the initial ideas, early stage designs, refinements, and final mockups. This is an insight into the workflow of four...
Best free flower images
It's no secret that I love flowers. A recurring theme you'll see in both my graphic products and pattern designs. I even have a pinterest board dedicated to just flowers with over 325 pins and growing! I'm always on the look out for beautiful free floral stock images...
Clients don’t have to be scary monsters!
Clients often get a bad rap. They can drive you crazy with all their bad briefs, late payments and unattainable expectations. But often these problems are actually our own doing! Early on in my design career I pretty much blamed all the stress I experienced in my job...
Overcoming isolation as a designer
Working from home alone can be a dream come true for some designers. I know for me, it's truly a blessing and something I don't take for granted at all. But you do run the risk of becoming too isolated, and as a creative, that could potentially have a negative impact...
What to charge for graphic design work?
As designers, a lot of us struggle with pricing ourselves at some point in our careers. How much should you charge? Should you raise your rate? Should you ever work for free? We discuss all things pricing in Episode 5 of The Honest Designers Show. You can't miss this...
Is formal design education worth it?
So many of us are self taught in our creative fields. Even though I went the formal route to study graphic design, I'm actually almost completely self-taught when it comes to illustration. I did art at school, but that's about it. So I've experienced both sides of the...
How to use Textures in your Designs in Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial shows you how you can incorporate textures in Adobe Illustrator into your design work, and transform it from a simple design into something special in minutes. I’ve used my Tasty Texture Pack in this tutorial and created my layout in Adobe Illustrator....