Type is creative. Type communicates. Type represents you on your scrapbook page. Isn’t it time you mastered type? Pen Scrapper Tiffany Tillman’s Text FX takes you on a learning adventure through basic typographic theory to eye-popping title text effects using eight learning objectives and ten title-work projects.

Learn to install and use a set of three Lightroom Presets to give your portraits and food photography extra pop.

Want an easy way to make your food photos pop and your portraits come alive? Molly has created three Photoshop Actions that you can apply to your photos to get amazing results. Be sure to watch this tutorial after downloading the contest kit — you won’t believe the difference these actions will make to your photos.

Our friends at Confessions of a Homeschooler created a wonderful A-Z package of handwriting PDFs that are perfect for your child (or you!) to practice handwriting.  To use the file: Download the PDF file Open Photoshop or Photoshop Elements Unzip [...]

Illustrator instructor Laura Coyle has created an exercise in Adobe Illustrator to help you practice your Pen Tablet skills while creating unique elements to use in your layouts. Youʼll find two plain elements in this kit; an umbrella and a [...]

Custom brushes are my favorite design secret! I use brushes in every single bit of designing I do

Here’s a fun exercise for working with a tablet in Adobe Illustrator. Create a scribble alphabet by using the Draw Inside Mode. It’s like creating a clipping mask you can doodle in and instantly clip your scribbles to the shape of your letter.

My designer secret is: Photoshop brushes. I use them in all of my designing.