Graphic Design Techniques & Workflow

Use these techniques to improve your graphic design workflow and be more productive. With the time you save, what creative new designs will you come up with?

All Techniques & Workflow tutorials:

  1. Quick Tip: Enhance Your Designs With Adobe Color in InDesign

    Quick Tip: Enhance Your Designs With Adobe Color in InDesign

    Tutorial Beginner

    Adobe has made some exciting new changes to the way InDesign manages color. Let’s review what you need to know about the newly renamed Adobe Color CC...

  2. Quick Tip: How to Use Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries

    Quick Tip: How to Use Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you regularly use both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Creative Cloud Libraries offer a way to keep all of your frequently-used assets in one place....

  3. Quick Tip: Perfect Your Designs With the Measure Tool in Adobe InDesign

    Quick Tip: Perfect Your Designs With the Measure Tool in Adobe InDesign

    Tutorial Beginner

    The Measure Tool is an often overlooked InDesign feature, which can be really useful for documents where you need to keep a close eye on dimensions. It can...

  4. The 7 Habits of Highly Efficient Adobe Illustrator Users

    The 7 Habits of Highly Efficient Adobe Illustrator Users

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Here's how to customize your Illustrator experience for speed and productivity, so you can concentrate on the fun stuff.

  5. 3 Tips for Building a Cohesive Design Across Your Print Designs

    3 Tips for Building a Cohesive Design Across Your Print Designs

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial, I'm sharing my top three tips that will not only help you plan out your print designs, but show you how to maintain a consistent design...

  6. How to Optimize Inkscape With Zoom and View

    How to Optimize Inkscape With Zoom and View

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you've worked with advanced drawing in Inkscape before, you may have noticed that Inkscape starts to seriously slow down. In this quick tip, we'll go over...

  7. How to Use Focus Area Selection in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Use Focus Area Selection in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In June of 2014, Adobe released it's largest update to Photoshop since migrating to the Creative Cloud subscription model. Today, we're looking at using the...

  8. Tips for Getting a Web Design from Illustrator into the Browser

    Tips for Getting a Web Design from Illustrator into the Browser

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Scenario: someone hands you an Illustrator document with their latest web layout and it's your job to convert it into working HTML and CSS. How do you do...

  9. How to Use Pixelmator's Liquify Tools to Make an Eye Popping Portrait

    How to Use Pixelmator's Liquify Tools to Make an Eye Popping Portrait

    Tutorial Beginner

    Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the Liquify Tools in Pixelmator....

  10. What's New in Filter Forge 4.0?

    What's New in Filter Forge 4.0?

    Tutorial Beginner

    Filter Forge is a versatile Photoshop plugin, which can be used to create many different types of textures and effects. Its online Filter Library provides...

  11. Protecting Your Data: How to Back Up Your Design Files

    Protecting Your Data: How to Back Up Your Design Files

    Tutorial Beginner

    Losing your project work to accidental deletion or hardware failure can be one of the most stressful situations a designer or photographer will face,...

  12. Photoshop's Role in a Web Design Workflow

    Photoshop's Role in a Web Design Workflow

    Tutorial Beginner

    The web has undergone some serious changes in recent years and the way in which the web is designed is changing along with it. Photoshop may still be the...