Access All Areas members have a great new font to download this week, courtesy of Design a Lot. Coastly is a relaxed, handwritten font that was inspired by the Amalfi Coast in Italy and its lemons (which explains its name and colour palette) with thoughts of limoncello, granita, ice cream, the beach and ferry trips. It’s ideal for headlines, posters, product design, quotes, branding, marketing materials and more. The font supports all major characters and punctuation, and even comes bundled with 10 bonus quote designs with a Summer theme.
We all love having a vast library of quality fonts to work with, but they can often be far too expensive for the average designer to afford. While the high price tags do justify the quality and craftsmanship that goes into premium typefaces, the total soon adds up when you’re trying to establish a varied collection. This brand new Design Cuts bundle brings you a range of unique fonts from a select group of hugely respected type designers and font foundries. The massive 99% discount brings the $2474 cost down to just $29 for a limited time, making it an ideal opportunity to upgrade your font library while saving a fortune!
Access All Areas members have a great collection of Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. This set of Clean Tones effects transform your images with a bright, clean and warm look. A variety of file formats are supplied, making these photo effects compatible with Adobe Photoshop, the mobile and desktop versions of Adobe Lightroom, and the Adobe Camera RAW tool. These 15 actions and presets can be applied with a single click to instantly enhance your photos. All the settings can then be customised should you want to tweak the result.
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a simple technique to create what has become known as double colour exposure, where two images are overlaid to produce an interesting effect with contrasting colours. It’s a similar visual style to 3D anaglyph images, or the overprint effect used in old school print designs. The steps to create the basic double colour exposure are very simple, so stick around until the end to also see a few additional tips and tricks to add colour grading effects to finish off the artwork.
Using the cute and cuddly hand-crafted resources in this new bundle, you can create wonderful artwork for children’s books, greeting cards, kids’ clothing and more! You’ll find graphics, fonts, brushes and patterns that will help you easily create soft, fluffy, joyful and whimsical artwork for endless creative designs. You’ll have access to the tools from some of the most talented illustrators, including Lisa Glanz, Pretty Little Lines and Julia Dreams, to name a few. With the 92% discount, you can get this bundle of cute artistic products for just $29 for a limited time only!
It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2022 marking 15 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my design portfolio website in 2007. Every April I take some time to reflect on the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed. Last year I talked about how it was nice to see traffic levels plateau somewhat after the massive declines over recent years, so let’s take a look at the latest stats and figures and see how things are going another year on.
