To finish off every year I enjoy taking a moment to look back at my content from the past 12 months to compare how all my articles, tutorials, freebies and videos performed in terms of view counts. This is my greatest hits collection for 2017, broken down into individual top 10 roundups for each category. Did you miss any of these most popular posts? Which one from the list was your favourite? Or was there a particular piece of content you found really useful that didn’t make the cut?
My most popular content from 2017
Video tutorials uploaded to the Spoon Graphics YouTube channel now receive more attention in video views than my written content tends to acquire in website traffic statistics. With 167,699 views, my video showing How To Animate a Still Photo in Photoshop takes first place as my most popular post of 2017. Interestingly, the equivalent blog post containing the embedded video, which is sent out to all 130,000+ Spoon Graphics newsletter readers, received just 8,779 views. It just goes to show how YouTube helps push my content to a much larger audience.
From my website content alone, my roundup of 45 T-Shirt Mockup Templates You Can Download for Free gained the most exposure with 77,943 visits. This is followed by my How To Create a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop tutorial with 61,922 visits and my 12 Free Cinematic Photo Effect Actions for Adobe Photoshop with 51,766 vists.
Free resources in general seem to attract the most traffic, closely followed by people consuming my Tutorials. My Articles don’t perform as well in terms of traffic statistics, but they acquire the most social media shares. Despite my video tutorials receiving much more attention on YouTube, they’re my least popular posts on the Spoon Graphics blog.
My Top 10 Freebies from 2017
51,766 Views: 12 Free Cinematic Photo Effect Actions for Adobe Photoshop
48,816 Views: 10 Free Retro Text Effect Graphic Styles for Adobe Illustrator
45,557 Views: 9 Free “Washed & Worn” Aged T-Shirt Effect Textures
35,466 Views: 10 Free Black Grunge Textures Made From The Ashes of Hell!
34,236 Views: 25 Film Dust Textures to use as Backgrounds and Overlays
26,380 Views: 12 Free Wax Crayon Effect Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
25,629 Views: 40 Free Duotone Gradient Presets for Adobe Photoshop
23,207 Views: 12 Free Halftone Texture Brushes for Adobe Photoshop
21,810 Views: Free Pack of Vintage Style Marquee Bulb Sign Letters
20,592 Views: 10 Free Grainy Vignette Textures with PNG Transparency
My Top 10 Tutorials from 2017
61,922 Views: How To Create a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop
35,479 Views: How To Create an Editable Retro Text Style in Illustrator
27,561 Views: How To Create a Vintage Style Large Letter Postcard Design
23,611 Views: How To Create a Vector Popsicle in Adobe Illustrator
20,971 Views: How To Create Digital Particle Waves in Adobe Illustrator
19,906 Views: Three Ways to Add Textures to Vintage Logos & Type Designs
15,987 Views: How To Create a Vintage Film Title Text Effect in Photoshop
14,514 Views: How To Create Colourful Gradient Orbs in Illustrator
12,554 Views: How To Create a Geometric Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
9196 Views: How To Create a Distressed Vintage Style Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator
My Top 10 Articles from 2017
77,943 Views: 45 T-Shirt Mockup Templates You Can Download for Free
24,065 Views: 35 Scenic Landscape Illustrations with Vibrant Colors
15,702 Views: 50 Creative Logos & Branding Designs for Craft Breweries
12,312 Views: 60 Creative Outdoors & Adventure Themed Logo Designs
12,051 Views: 30 Mind Blowing Pieces of Algorithmic Fractal Art
11,546 Views: 20 Brilliant Design Case Studies That Neatly Present Brand Identity Concepts
10,935 Views: 45 Mascot Logo Designs for Sports & eSports Teams
10,804 Views: Showcase of Creative Album Cover Designs & Illustrations
9514 Views: 25 Redesigned Movie Posters for Your Favourite 80s Films
8693 Views: 30 Custom Lettering Designs with Drips, Runs and Splatters
My Top 10 Videos from 2017
167,699 Views: How To Animate a Still Photo in Photoshop
76,690 Views: Airbrushed Film Poster Photo Effect
73,228 Views: How To Create a Single Weight Line Art Logo
32,294 Views: How To Colorize a Black and White Photo
29,735 Views: Retro Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
29,679 Views: Thor Ragnarok Style Text Effect in Illustrator
26,204 Views: Surreal Collage Style Artwork in Photoshop
25,001 Views: How To Create a Realistic Chalk Lettering Effect
23,851 Views: Pencil Sketch Drawing Effect in Adobe Photoshop
21,389 Views: Vintage Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator
Thanks for sharing popular posts. I loved Duotone Gradient and used a lot in my projects. Happy new year Chris.
Hi, Thank you. I get a lot of inspiration for my future project. Happy new year to you
I look forward to these posts, Chris! LOL It is so interesting to see what ranked. I have to agree with your stats! LOL
Happy New Year to You and Yours!
Su
Hi Chris, you are amaizing designer. Thank you for your posts and this sympathic magic I can feel here. Happy New Year!
Hey Chris,
Your articles are always amazing, and the t-shirt mockup templates really helped me a lot. Hope you’ll keep up the good work and share more awesome templates in 2018 as well!
Hi Chris,
Thank you for all of the awesome tutorials and freebies. I think I used over half of the tutorials on you list last year. Can’t wait to see what you bring for 2018!
All of these resources are wonderful, thank you very much for these freebies and video tuts.
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