When it comes to using free images for your social visuals and other projects, there are many websites that offer free or paid-for images. If you are like me, you have a small budget and can't take great photos. These websites become very important. Let's take a look at a few of my favorite sites.

When you think of Instagram, do you think of animation? Well, animated Instagram visuals are becoming very popular. Here are a few tips you should keep in mind when creating your own animated Instagram visuals.

Canva is one of the most popular free online graphic design software apps. Use Canva to design anything from social media graphics to print invitations. Start from scratch or use one of the thousands of templates. Canva has a free forever plan as well as their Canva for Work monthly plan.

Animated gifs are not a new thing, as they have been around the web since the beginning. However, animated gifs are making a comeback, after falling out of favor several years ago. It's the short duration and subsequent small file size that makes animated gifs perfect for email marketing.

In this review, we will take a look at the Brackets code editor, an open source project by Adobe.

We decided to give the MUSED Literary Review website a new look. Of course, we wanted to use the newest HTML and CSS and that means using Flexbox, CSS Grid and Responsive Web Design. Below are just a few of the best video tutorials that helped me design the new look for MUSED.

This tutorial is for DIY card makers who create watercolor designs for their cards. We will make a simple card project using Rebelle digital watercolors. Rebelle is a new digital painting software from Escape Motions. You will really like the realistic paint diffusion and color blending in Rebelle.

Recently Escape Solutions released an upgrade for Rebelle, their new digital painting software with realistic color diffusion and blending. In this article, I will introduce one of the best features of the software, which is the Stencil feature.

In this free 25 minute video course on Skillshare, Jasmine Love takes you through her digital painting technique using Photoshop and a pen and tablet. She demonstrates her complete process from hand drawn sketch to the final illustration.

I've been researching natural media painting software and Autodesk's SketchBook Pro. I've been curious about SketchBook since the addition of the Copic Color Library and Copic Brushes. What I like is the yearly subscription is $29. My favorite blog articles on the Autodesk website.