Creating images for your blog or website that can be shared far and wide and still lead back to your business, blog or website doesn't have to be tedious or difficult - especially if you set up your file once and use it again and again with new images and text to...
If you’re looking to increase your mailing list signups, having an interactive PDF download as an incentive is a great way to encourage more people to sign up. A printable PDF is fine, but often people will download it, forget to print it out and never look at it...
A mood board is a composition of images, colours and type that forms a theme, style or mood for your project. They're really useful in determining the direction of your visual branding, and often form the basis of a more formal style guide down the track. Creating a...
Why do you need an email signature? These days, in the times of algorithms across social media, page rankings in Google and exorbitant print-ad costs (along with declining print readership and no “click through rate”), email, for the time being, remains one of the...
While you're still fairly new to the market stall game, it's generally accepted that you'll spend a certain amount of time perfecting your market stall set-up and visual merchandising, in order to get it just right. When I was attending markets regularly, I went...
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I've put together a very short (less than 2 minutes!) video showing you how you can crop a profile photo to a circle and save with a transparent background to use in your email signature, on your website, across the web or on other graphics for your business. [UPDATE]...
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I've put together a very short 3 minute video showing you how you can create an effective email signature in Gmail, going through inserting images and formatting text, but also showing you how you can float an image of yourself to the left or right of your text info. ...
If you have recently installed the Divi framework from Elegant Themes, you might not yet understand how to import and load .json files into a new page layout. In this video I give a brief demonstration of how to use the import feature. If you're interested in The...
If you have recently installed the Divi framework from Elegant Themes, you might not yet realise how incredible the Visual Builder is, or how it works. In this video I give a brief over-view of how to use the visual builder to create a simple opt-in page. If you're...
If you have recently installed the Divi framework from Elegant Themes, you might be a little confused about how the sections, rows and modules work together. Here is a very brief video introduction to the interface, which will hopefully make...
Have you ever needed a beautiful wash of watercolour to use as a background element for your website or in a design, but haven't been able to find exactly what you wanted? Well my friend, I've got a super quick and easy little DIY video tutorial for you, and you'll...
After a long period of not attending any markets (to focus on The Makers' Hub, which I've now closed), I decided to dip my toes back into the market stall game a couple of year ago. In the lead-up, I whipped up a shelving display to use at the Market. Here's exactly...
This post is to help you make your home studio look GREAT (on a budget!), by organising and upgrading in just a few simple steps. When you work from home, you really need a dedicated space to work from, be it a home studio, a small study nook or office,...
Here's a quick tutorial on how to trace and digitise your hand lettering or brush script in Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial you will use the live trace command, the selection tools, ungroup command, make compound path command, smooth tool, edit using anchor points...
I've created a video to demonstrate recreating a design in order to practice technical skills in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial. Let me know in the Makers Co Community if you found this helpful and what you might like to see me demonstrate next, either as an Adobe...