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. What Is a Live Shape in Illustrator?

    What Is a Live Shape in Illustrator?

    Tutorial Beginner

    Let's explore one of the latest features of Adobe Illustrator called Live Shape and see how useful it is in creating designs.

  2. How to Create a Botanical Gel Printing Effect in Photoshop

    How to Create a Botanical Gel Printing Effect in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    What is gel printing? It's a process that uses laser prints to transfer ink on to paper. It's also a bit messy and time-consuming. Today you'll learn how to...

  3. How to Use the Snap to Grid Option in Illustrator

    How to Use the Snap to Grid Option in Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    Welcome to our Illustrator series, in which you can learn an Illustrator skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!

  4. Gradients in Procreate: All You Need to Know

    Gradients in Procreate: All You Need to Know

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Wondering how to do a gradient in Procreate? There are many tools to create beautiful effects. Here you'll know everything about how to make a gradient in...

  5. How to Add Brushes to Affinity Designer

    How to Add Brushes to Affinity Designer

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn about Affinity Designer vector brushes and raster brushes: where to find them, how to install them, and how to use them. It's easy and fast!

  6. How to Wrap Text Around an Image in Affinity Publisher

    How to Wrap Text Around an Image in Affinity Publisher

    Tutorial Beginner

    Affinity Publisher automatically uses transparency to wrap text around images. Learn how to break up boring, blocky layouts by enabling text wrapping in...

  7. How to Convert a Stroke to a Shape in Affinity Designer

    How to Convert a Stroke to a Shape in Affinity Designer

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to expand any simple stroke, multiple strokes or a text outline into shapes that you can further modify and distort as you need.

  8. How to Invert Colors in Illustrator

    How to Invert Colors in Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the following tutorial, you will learn how to invert colors in Illustrator and how to invert the colors of images in Illustrator.

  9. How to Make a File Smaller in Photoshop (Best Tips and Tricks!)

    How to Make a File Smaller in Photoshop (Best Tips and Tricks!)

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you're wondering how to make a file smaller in Photoshop, don't worry. In this tutorial, you'll discover the best ways to use Photoshop to reduce the file...

  10. How to Insert an Image in InDesign

    How to Insert an Image in InDesign

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you're new to InDesign, you might have wondered, "How do you insert a picture in InDesign?" This quick tutorial offers three easy methods to learn how to...

  11. How to Warp Text in InDesign

    How to Warp Text in InDesign

    Tutorial Beginner

    Can you warp text in InDesign? Yes, you can. There's a quick and easy way to do it, so stick around to learn how.

  12. How to Curve a Line in Illustrator

    How to Curve a Line in Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the following tutorial, you will learn how to draw a curved line in Illustrator using different techniques.