Previously we discussed the workspace options for starting a project from a prebuilt template. Now we will explore options for starting a project from scratch.

Adobe Portfolio is free with a Creative Cloud membership and is a very easy-to-use WYSIWYG browser based website editor. Once you've created your Adobe ID and Creative Cloud membership, you can begin using Adobe Portfolio.

Artboard Studio is a browser-based online graphic design software for creating product mockups and more. It's in beta now and I'm lucky to be one of the beta testers. Let's take a tour of Artboard Studio.

Gutenberg is a new website editor for Wordpress. With this new editor, which will be part of the Wordpress 5.0 release later this year, you can build a Wordpress webpage one block at a time.

Now that BellaOnline has upgraded to a mobile friendly responsive layout, each article needs a featured image. If you are familiar with Wordpress, you know about featured images. A featured image represents the contents of the article.

If you are a creative in need of a new portfolio, you might want to consider Adobe Portfolio, which is free with any Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

With the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, you not only get Photoshop CC but also Photoshop Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic CC, Adobe Spark Premium, Adobe Typekit, Adobe Portfolio and 20GB Cloud Storage.

When creating a sell or tear sheet for your surface pattern collection, including mockups of your pattern collection on potential products can play a big part in presenting your art for licensing. These mockups can range from simple flat 2D line drawings to 3D product mockups.

Now that we have the Elementor Wordpress plugin installed, we can install our Wordpress theme. Astra is one of the themes suggested by the Elementor team and I found it very easy to use. So let's move on and install the Astra theme and set the basic options for the theme.

After using Sketchbook Pro, digital sketching software from Autodesk, for almost a year, several of my favorite features include the Flipbook animation, digital Copic Markers, Radial Symmetry, Predictive Stroke and unlimited brushes for just about any project, from Manga to fine art. Now it's free.