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Design trends for 2025: creative leaders share their vision for the future

Creative Boom

In Photoshop, for example, you can use the Generative Fill feature to remove, fix, or generate content with just a few clicks. Yet, we are washed with Gen Z insight reports and briefs that request us to target those who happened to be born between the years of 1997 and 2013. Beyond that, new AI platforms like Exactly.ai

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Joe Boyd's illustrations of nature, place and movement show a never-ending thirst for adventure

Creative Boom

However, his move to Leeds in 2013 to study illustration marked a pivotal moment in his career. Once these sketches are digitised, he turns to Photoshop and uses a Wacom tablet. Growing up in the serene landscapes of Cumbria, at just 16, he enrolled in art college in Carlisle.

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Creative Boom launches its fourth podcast season, bringing the inside scoop from leading artists and designers

Creative Boom

Founded in 2013 by two former Apple engineers, Matt Ronge and Giovanni Donelli, Astropad Studio has been used by leading animation studios and is trusted by millions of artists around the world. This next season has been made possible by our sponsor, Astropad Studio.

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Spoon Graphics Turns 14 Years Old — Still Steadily Ticking Along

Spoon Graphics

Highest Traffic Peak (All Time): Tuesday November 11th 2014 – 44,592 visitors ( How To Create a Realistic Painted Effect in Photoshop ). Highest Traffic Peak (This Year): Tuesday April 27th 2020 – 32,403 visitors ( 20 Free Old Paper Textures with Creases, Folds and Stains ).

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9 Years Building the World’s Marketplace for Design

Creative Market

2013 marked the beginning of a distinctively retro, rugged aesthetic. Photoshop had just rolled out Linked Smart Objects in January 2014, making detailed mockup files much smaller in size. Realism was the look to aim for, which is why this icon set’s popularity comes as absolutely no surprise: However, not all is flat in 2021.

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The No Bulls**t Guide To Drawing Tablets

Booooooom

I purchased my first drawing display in 2013, and without it, True Grit Texture Supply wouldn’t exist. Adobe Photoshop – Kinda However, there’s a tonne of features missing compared to the desktop version. Adobe Illustrator – Kinda Like Photoshop, it’s not a full version. All words and illustrations by Andrew Fairclough.

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Why Adobe needs to “Figmatize” and not the other way around

UX Collective

Brushes, markers and letter-set are examples of tools which are referenced in the toolbars from software like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. For example, Photoshop 3.0 Adobe began to see these apps as digital editing hubs with multiple purposes, which had overlaps between what you could do in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

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