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In this video, Nicte Cuevas demonstrates how to build a more intentional brand system by aligning purpose, audience, and color. She walks through strategies for understanding an audience, evaluating color associations, and organizing a brand’s colors into a flexible palette system. Nicte then shows how this approach can create visual communication that stays on brand while giving designers room to grow.

In this PowerPoint how-to video, Stephy Hogan shows how to elevate a basic clustered bar chart into a beautiful mirrored version. To create the mirror effect, she converts some of her data to negative numbers and then aligns the data bars. Finally, she fancies up her chart with placeholder bars and rounded corners. Subscribe to the CreativePro YouTube channel for more helpful design tips! Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me

In this short Illustrator how-to video, Khara Plicanic shows how to selectively change the thickness of a stroke. Using Illustrator’s Width tool, you can create a more expressive stroke and keep your path editable. Subscribe to the CreativePro YouTube channel for more helpful design tips! Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me

This excerpt from The InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects will make you an effects wiz without touching Photoshop. Making text or other objects look like they have been carved into wood is “two” easy. To create something similar to the example below, just use two effects (Bevel and Emboss, and Basic Feather), two blend modes (Multiply and Screen), and two copies of the “carved” object. Start with a good photo of stained wood, placed into InDesign.

Photoshop’s neural filters are yet another way to level up your Photoshop game. Khara shows you what you need to know to get started. This CreativePro Livestream event takes place on Thursday, August 27, 2026. Subscribe to the CreativePro YouTube channel for more helpful design tips! Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me

In this Photoshop how-to video, Steve Caplin shows how to create a tracking zoom effect on a still photo. Instead of using Free Transform for a simple zoom, his technique separates the photo’s subjects onto different layers. This allows him to zoom in on each subject at a slightly different rate to create a camera tracking effect. Subscribe to the CreativePro YouTube channel for more helpful design tips! Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me

In this video, Nick Brazzi shows how to use text-based video editing tools like those found in Descript, CapCut, and Premiere. He demonstrates how AI-generated transcripts let you quickly search, select, and delete dialogue directly from your timeline. Nick also highlights the best unique AI special features from each of these programs. This is just a taste of the great content you’ll learn in Nick’s upcoming session at The Design + AI Summit 2026: Part 2, being held online September 17–18.

In the movie Spinal Tap, guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly shows off his custom amplifier with volume knobs that “go to eleven.” Not to be outdone, our own Nigel (French) delivers the eleventh installment of his How to Be a Better Graphic Designer series in this month’s feature article.

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Good designers are storytellers and problem-solvers. The strongest design work is more than just a visual arrangement of type, image, and space. It’s a narrative. And every decision you make—typeface, color, composition, scale—is a part of that narrative. Our designs are about more than what they look like. They pose the question: Why? Of all the myriad possibilities, all the directions not taken, why has the designer chosen to make it look like this?