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Streamlining Your Business: The Power of System Integration
In today’s digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on a myriad of software systems and tools to manage their operations. However, as the number of these systems grows, so do the complexities and inefficiencies associated with them. This is where system integration comes into play. By streamlining your business through effective system integration, you can …
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Essential Tips for Crafting an MVP: What Startups Need to Know
In the fast-paced world of startups, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) can be the key to validating your business idea, gaining early traction, and securing funding. An MVP is essentially the most stripped-down version of your product that still delivers value to your target audience. But creating an effective MVP requires more than just …
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10+ Classic Freelance Designer Mistakes to Always Avoid
Freelancing is a lot like managing your own business. With every client, you learn something new, and learning from mistakes is also part of that process.
However, there are some mistakes that you should always avoid at all costs. In this post, we look at some of those classic freelance designer mistakes that even the most experienced freelancers make and how to avoid them.
As they say, learning from mistakes is part of every job. But learning from other people’s mistakes is an even better way to avoid trouble. So, take note and see if you’ve made any of these mistakes in your career.
1. Skipping Contracts
Even the smallest freelance gig should start with a good contract
Some clients will ask you to sign a contract right from the beginning. These can be NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) or even service contracts. This is a sign of a good client who values professionalism. Just make sure to read these contracts thoroughly or have a lawyer look at them before signing.
However, most design clients you work with won’t ask you to sign a contract. That doesn’t mean they are unprofessional. It’s because they think it’s unnecessary for smaller projects and gigs. But they are wrong!
Even the smallest freelance gig should start with a good contract, it’s the only way you can protect yourself from clients who skip payments or overwork you beyond the scope of the project. So, when a client doesn’t send you a contract, it’s your responsibility to ask them to sign one.
It’s also worth noting that your email conversations with the client are legally binding. If it’s a short or one-off gig, getting all the facts, requirements, and payment terms explained in an email should be enough to protect yourself. But signing a detailed contract document is the best approach.
2. Not Having a Clear Project Scope
Most of the design clients that approach you won’t have a clear idea of how much work and skill is required to complete a project. And it’s up to you to explain it in detail to them. That’s where the project scope or design brief comes in.
With a clear project scope, you can showcase all the tasks, deliverables, goals, costs, and other important parts of the project in simple terms so that the client understands all the requirements of the project.
Project scope also allows you to ensure you get enough time to complete the project as well as to avoid scope creep.
3. Ignoring Client Red Flags
We get it, when you’re having a rough month without any sign of a client, you will often rush to accept the first client you get a response from. However, even during those tough times, you should take all the precautions to identify the red flags to avoid bad clients.
Most bad clients will often give you subtle telltale signs. Like when they constantly lowball your price, disregard your contracts, ignore important questions you ask, or even ask for free samples.
When you desperately need to pay your bills, you’ll ignore these red flags. But they will only lead to more trouble and conflicts in the future. So think twice before taking on these types of clients.
4. Poor Communication Skills
Clients can recognize unprofessional freelancers from a mile away, especially from the way you talk and write emails. When you address your client as “bro” or “mate”, you are setting yourself up for rejection.
Good communication skill is the key to building good relationships with clients. It’s important to treat your clients with respect and gratitude, rather than being overconfident or showing your ego in your conversations.
Your true self will often show when a client gives feedback and criticism on your work. Learn to handle these situations like a pro and you’ll have a successful career.
5. Forgetting to Set Boundaries
Setting boundaries with your client is just as important as your freelance contract.
If a client keeps coming back to you with more and more requests, additional tasks, and endless revisions, you know you’ve made a mistake. That’s the result of a lack of boundaries.
Setting boundaries with your client is just as important as your freelance contract. You should always outline your work ethic and include some boundaries in your contract or initial agreement.
For example, let your client know how many revisions they are entitled to, how much they have to pay for extra revisions, or even explain the hours you’re available for work.
6. Pricing Too Low
If you’re still charging the same rate you asked for five years ago for your services, you’re missing out. Clients will always come at you with a lowball offer trying to get a discount but that doesn’t mean you need to stick to the same old price.
Oftentimes, asking for a lower price can also be a mistake because the clients who are used to working with professionals will see it as a red flag.
It’s also a good idea to revise your prices every couple of years. It’s perfectly okay to raise your rates as you accumulate more experience, new skills, and knowledge. And let’s not forget inflation and taxes.
7. Missing Deadlines
Missing deadlines and always being late to deliver is one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a beginning freelancer and if not managed you will not succeed as a freelance designer.
While it’s okay to miss a deadline once or twice, you should not let it become a habit. It will not only lose your client’s trust but it will also affect your workflow and schedule.
If you feel like you need more time to deliver a project, it’s best to ask your client for an extension on the deadline beforehand. And in the future, plan your schedule well to ask for more time and deliver early, rather than the other way around.
8. Failing to Specialize
“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one”, this quote by William Shakespeare has a deep meaning. While you should always try to specialize in at least one skill, you should not limit your capabilities to that skill alone.
Whenever you need medical advice, you go to a specialist doctor. Or when you need some work done to a specific part of your car, you go to a mechanic that specializes in that area.
The same applies to freelance designers. You should try to specialize in a skill that outperforms all the other “jack of all trades” types of designers. But you should also learn other skills related to your main specialization to make yourself indispensable.
9. Not Learning New Skills
Not learning new skills is just as big of a mistake as failing to specialize in your skills. Just because you are getting more work doesn’t mean you can stop learning.
For example, there are now far more advanced tools available that allow you to cut the time of your work in half as well as automate the most repetitive tasks.
Ignoring these new technologies and thinking you have it all figured out will only put you at a disadvantage. Before long, you will be replaced with another freelancer who take advantage of new skills and tools.
10. Ignoring New Trends
Graphic design is a constantly changing industry. New trends, concepts, and technologies are introduced almost every day. As a professional, it’s important to stay on top of these new design trends and not ignore them.
Especially in the past few months, there have been rapid advancements in AI tools that help create art, illustrations, and designs. It’s crucial to find a way to incorporate these tools and technologies into your workflow to stay relevant as a freelance designer.
11. Not Updating the Portfolio
With all the work and a busy schedule, it’s easy to forget about maintaining your graphic design portfolio. But don’t forget that your portfolio is the key component in every proposal you send to a client. And it’s also the way clients can discover your work.
So, set aside a few minutes each week or even once a month to update your portfolio. Make sure to showcase your best projects, clients, and designs with details to win over new clients.
12. Using Outdated Software
Imagine having to work on a project that requires Figma when the only software you use is Photoshop CS3. Using old and outdated software is a huge problem among freelance designers and it needs to stop.
Yes, new software can be expensive these days but don’t forget that your entire career depends on these software as well. Besides, there are now far better alternatives to Photoshop and other expensive software that you can use as well.
In Conclusion
No one is perfect and things won’t go perfectly with every client you work with. If you ask any successful freelancer, they will list dozens of mistakes they’ve made in the past. That’s part of being a freelancer.
Hopefully, with the help of this list, you’ll be able to avoid some of the most common mistakes almost every freelance designer tends to make.
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
I was recently asked by a student to help with a seemingly simple problem. She’d been working on a website for a coffee shop that sports a sticky header, and she wanted the hero section right underneath that header to span the rest of the available vertical space in the viewport.
Here’s a visual demo of the desired effect for clarity.
Looks like it should be easy enough, right? I was sure (read: overconfident) that the problem would only take a couple of minutes to solve, only to find it was a much deeper well than I’d assumed.
Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the initial markup and CSS to see what we’re working with:
<body>
<header class=”header”>Header Content</header>
<section class=”hero”>Hero Content</section>
<main class=”main”>Main Content</main>
</body>
.header {
position: sticky;
top: 0; /* Offset, otherwise it won’t stick! */
}
/* etc. */
With those declarations, the .header will stick to the top of the page. And yet the .hero element below it remains intrinsically sized. This is what we want to change.
The Low-Hanging Fruit
The first impulse you might have, as I did, is to enclose the header and hero in some sort of parent container and give that container 100vh to make it span the viewport. After that, we could use Flexbox to distribute the children and make the hero grow to fill the remaining space.
<body>
<div class=”container”>
<header class=”header”>Header Content</header>
<section class=”hero”>Hero Content</section>
</div>
<main class=”main”>Main Content</main>
</body>
.container {
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.hero {
flex-grow: 1;
}
/* etc. */
This looks correct at first glance, but watch what happens when scrolling past the hero.
See the Pen Attempt #1: Container + Flexbox [forked] by Philip.
The sticky header gets trapped in its parent container! But.. why?
If you’re anything like me, this behavior is unintuitive, at least initially. You may have heard that sticky is a combination of relative and fixed positioning, meaning it participates in the normal flow of the document but only until it hits the edges of its scrolling container, at which point it becomes fixed. While viewing sticky as a combination of other values can be a useful mnemonic, it fails to capture one important difference between sticky and fixed elements:
A position: fixed element doesn’t care about the parent it’s nested in or any of its ancestors. It will break out of the normal flow of the document and place itself directly offset from the viewport, as though glued in place a certain distance from the edge of the screen.
Conversely, a position: sticky element will be pushed along with the edges of the viewport (or next closest scrolling container), but it will never escape the boundaries of its direct parent. Well, at least if you don’t count visually transform-ing it. So a better way to think about it might be, to steal from Chris Coyier, that “position: sticky is, in a sense, a locally scoped position: fixed.” This is an intentional design decision, one that allows for section-specific sticky headers like the ones made famous by alphabetical lists in mobile interfaces.
See the Pen Sticky Section Headers [forked] by Philip.
Okay, so this approach is a no-go for our predicament. We need to find a solution that doesn’t involve a container around the header.
Fixed, But Not Solved
Maybe we can make our lives a bit simpler. Instead of a container, what if we gave the .header element a fixed height of, say, 150px? Then, all we have to do is define the .hero element’s height as height: calc(100vh – 150px).
See the Pen Attempt #2: Fixed Height + Calc() [forked] by Philip.
This approach kinda works, but the downsides are more insidious than our last attempt because they may not be immediately apparent. You probably noticed that the header is too tall, and we’d wanna do some math to decide on a better height.
Thinking ahead a bit,
What if the .header’s children need to wrap or rearrange themselves at different screen sizes or grow to maintain legibility on mobile?
What if JavaScript is manipulating the contents?
All of these things could subtly change the .header’s ideal size, and chasing the right height values for each scenario has the potential to spiral into a maintenance nightmare of unmanageable breakpoints and magic numbers — especially if we consider this needs to be done not only for the .header but also the .hero element that depends on it.
I would argue that this workaround also just feels wrong. Fixed heights break one of the main affordances of CSS layout — the way elements automatically grow and shrink to adapt to their contents — and not relying on this usually makes our lives harder, not simpler.
So, we’re left with…
A Novel Approach
Now that we’ve figured out the constraints we’re working with, another way to phrase the problem is that we want the .header and .hero to collectively span 100vh without sizing the elements explicitly or wrapping them in a container. Ideally, we’d find something that already is 100vh and align them to that. This is where it dawned on me that display: grid may provide just what we need!
Let’s try this: We declare display: grid on the body element and add another element before the .header that we’ll call .above-the-fold-spacer. This new element gets a height of 100vh and spans the grid’s entire width. Next, we’ll tell our spacer that it should take up two grid rows and we’ll anchor it to the top of the page.
This element must be entirely empty because we don’t ever want it to be visible or to register to screen readers. We’re merely using it as a crutch to tell the grid how to behave.
<body>
<!– This spacer provides the height we want –>
<div class=”above-the-fold-spacer”></div>
<!– This spacer provides the height we want –>
<div class=”above-the-fold-spacer”></div>
<!– These two elements will place themselves on top of the spacer –>
<header class=”header”>Header Content</header>
<section class=”hero”>Hero Content</section>
<!– The rest of the page stays unaffected –>
<main class=”main”>Main Content</main>
</body>
body {
display: grid;
}
.above-the-fold-spacer {
height: 100vh;
/* Span from the first to the last grid column line */
/* (Negative numbers count from the end of the grid) */
grid-column: 1 / -1;
/* Start at the first grid row line, and take up 2 rows */
grid-row: 1 / span 2;
}
/* etc. */
This is the magic ingredient.
By adding the spacer, we’ve created two grid rows that together take up exactly 100vh. Now, all that’s left to do, in essence, is to tell the .header and .hero elements to align themselves to those existing rows. We do have to tell them to start at the same grid column line as the .above-the-fold-spacer element so that they won’t try to sit next to it. But with that done… ta-da!
See the Pen The Solution: Grid Alignment [forked] by Philip.
The reason this works is that a grid container can have multiple children occupying the same cell overlaid on top of each other. In a situation like that, the tallest child element defines the grid row’s overall height — or, in this case, the combined height of the two rows (100vh).
To control how exactly the two visible elements divvy up the available space between themselves, we can use the grid-template-rows property. I made it so that the first row uses min-content rather than 1fr. This is necessary so that the .header doesn’t take up the same amount of space as the .hero but instead only takes what it needs and lets the hero have the rest.
Here’s our full solution:
body {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: min-content 1fr;
}
.above-the-fold-spacer {
height: 100vh;
grid-column: 1 / -1;
grid-row: 1 / span 2;
}
.header {
position: sticky;
top: 0;
grid-column-start: 1;
grid-row-start: 1;
}
.hero {
grid-column-start: 1;
grid-row-start: 2;
}
And voila: A sticky header of arbitrary size above a hero that grows to fill the remaining visible space!
Caveats and Final Thoughts
It’s worth noting that the HTML order of the elements matters here. If we define .above-the-fold-spacer after our .hero section, it will overlay and block access to the elements underneath. We can work around this by declaring either order: -1, z-index: -1, or visibility: hidden.
Keep in mind that this is a simple example. If you were to add a sidebar to the left of your page, for example, you’d need to adjust at which column the elements start. Still, in the majority of cases, using a CSS Grid approach is likely to be less troublesome than the Sisyphean task of manually managing and coordinating the height values of multiple elements.
Another upside of this approach is that it’s adaptable. If you decide you want a group of three elements to take up the screen’s height rather than two, then you’d make the invisible spacer span three rows and assign the visible elements to the appropriate one. Even if the hero element’s content causes its height to exceed 100vh, the grid adapts without breaking anything. It’s even well-supported in all modern browsers.
The more I think about this technique, the more I’m persuaded that it’s actually quite clean. Then again, you know how lawyers can talk themselves into their own arguments? If you can think of an even simpler solution I’ve overlooked, feel free to reach out and let me know!
WordPress Roundup: August 2024
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Quick Hit #16
“Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic HTML, and Web Components.” — Alex Russell
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WP Engine Appoints Samuel Monti as its Chief Financial Officer
AUSTIN, Texas—SEPT. 5, 2024—WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress, today announced the hiring of a new Chief Financial Officer, Samuel (“Sam”) Monti. In his new role, Monti is responsible for the leadership and management of all aspects of WP Engine’s financial organization, including corporate…
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20+ Best Cinematic Color Grading Presets (For DaVinci, Premiere + More)
Cinematic color grading is all about creating mood, atmosphere, and emotion in your visual narratives. It’s what separates ordinary footage from the breathtaking scenes you see in blockbuster films.
However, mastering color grading can be a complex and time-consuming process. That’s why high-quality presets are a game-changer, offering an efficient way to apply sophisticated looks to your videos with just a few clicks.
In this post, we’ve compiled a selection of the best cinematic color grading presets for popular platforms like DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, and more. Each preset is carefully chosen for its ability to deliver stunning, film-like quality across a variety of styles, from dramatic and moody tones to vibrant, colorful palettes.
Check out the collection below and be sure to download the free LUTs as well.
30 CINEMATIC LUTS for Color Grading
This is a must-have collection of cinematic color grading presets offering 30 professional cinematic color looks designed for any Rec709 color space videos. It also includes a LUT converter for Vlog, Dlog, and Slog to Rec709. Utilize them to infuse color grading effects into your clips, enhancing the visual storytelling. A video tutorial accompanies this pack, simplifying the process for beginners.
Movie Tones Cinematic Color LUTs
This is an impressive array of color grading presets designed to add that bold, movie-like look to your footage. These color grading LUTs can transform your video content into a cinematic masterpiece with a simple click. The LUTs offer color tones ideal for enhancing visual storytelling.
Movie LUTs Color Presets
You can use this cinematic color grading preset pack to achieve Hollywood-movie-like color grading for photos and videos. Compatible with popular software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Davinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro, these presets work perfectly with any FPS and resolution as well as drone cameras.
Bold Cinematic Color Presets
This pack of cinematic color grading presets includes versatile LUTs, ideal for photo and video, including drone footage. They function with any FPS and resolution, require no plugins, and are compatible with many popular software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Davinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro. Easy to use, they can enhance numerous media projects, from production videos to special events.
Cinematic Wedding Color LUTs
A creative color grading preset pack perfect for enhancing wedding videos. This LUTs pack helps to achieve cinematic color grading quickly, bringing a professional touch to your footage. It’s a practical solution for adding depth and charm to precious memories, making them even more memorable. This tool is simple to use yet impactful, guaranteed to elevate your wedding videos.
Cinematic Movie Color LUTs
A unique creative cinematic color grading preset bundle that adds a colorful cinematic touch to your projects. Offering a collection of different color profiles, it ensures your work stands out with aesthetically appealing and professional-looking visuals. It’s incredibly versatile and user-friendly, making it perfect for film enthusiasts and content creators aiming for a high-quality cinematic look.
Film Color Grading LUTs Pack
This color grading preset pack is ideal for rendering a cinematic touch to your visuals. It offers color look-up tables (LUTs) specially designed for film-like color grading looks. These presets are an investment that simplifies your post-production process, enhancing your visuals with the texture and depth of professional film aesthetics.
Cinematic Film Color Grading Presets
A creative collection of color grading presets that provides cinematic color Look-Up Tables (LUTs). This bundle offers modern cinematic visual styles, enhancing your videos with the rich, dramatic tones often associated with professional cinema projects. It’s a great asset for adding a touch of Hollywood flair to your film and video creations.
Modern Cinematic Film LUTs
A creative resource that offers bold cinematic color grades to your films. It transforms your footage into a visually stunning cinematic experience, capturing the essence of tried-and-true film aesthetics. With this asset, creating a compelling visual narrative becomes seamless and straightforward. It’s an essential tool to elevate your film production.
Classic Film Cinematic Color Grading LUTs
This is a creative color grading preset pack that offers a vintage touch to your visuals. These cinematic color Look-Up Tables (LUTs) allow you to transform the color and tone of your media, mimicking the timeless appearance of classic films. A great tool for enhancing your projects with nostalgia-inducing, cinematic flair.
Cinematic Film LUTs Pack
A creative color grading preset pack designed to enhance your visuals with bright cinematic color grades. The presets are highly recommended for elevating the overall aesthetics of your footage, giving you professional-grade cinematic looks in a user-friendly package. Perfect for filmmakers and content creators seeking to level up their projects.
Aerial Cinematic LUTs for Drone Videos
This LUTs pack is designed to transform drone footage into captivating cinematic stories. This pack, tailored for Final Cut Pro X and Apple Motion, includes 21 expertly created LUTs. Incorporating them into your work is straightforward, thanks to the user-friendly controls of the editing software. They help to enhance storytelling with stunning color grading.
Slog2 Cinematic and Standard Color LUTs
An ideal color grading preset collection for enhancing your wide dynamic range videos. These creative tools allow you to achieve that coveted cinematic look, elevating the visual storytelling of your content. Simple to use yet powerful, they promise to transform your footage, adding depth, mood, and captivating color tones to your creative projects.
Blast Cinematic Movie LUTs
Spruce up your videos with this cinematic movie LUTs pack. This pack features 25 cinematic LUTs and 42 “Log to Rec 709” LUTs perfect for films, social videos, presentations, and more. Adding a tasteful color grading to your work is as easy as drag-and-drop, no matter the resolution. Boasting improved modern and stylish visuals, this pack is a true game-changer.
Cinematic Color Grading LUTs Pack
An exciting collection of color grading presets that transforms your video footage with a film-style look. This pack contains unique cinematic LUTs that give your projects an amazing, visually striking dimension. It’s ideal for filmmakers and videographers seeking to elevate their storytelling abilities through immersive, cinema-quality aesthetics.
Vibrant Cinematic Color LUTs
Give your videos a cinematic edge with this professional LUTs collection. Designed specifically for DaVinci Resolve, this pack of 24 high-quality lookup tables enhances colors, boosts contrast, and lends a professional polish to your film projects. Turn ordinary footage into a visual delight and create cinematic masterpieces effortlessly with these LUTs.
70 Cinematic Color Grading LUTs
This bundle offers an easy way to bring professional, film-like aesthetics to your video content. Compatible with various editing software and cameras, these presets enable an outstanding color grading potential with just a few clicks. Whether it’s footage for YouTube, an independent film, or music videos, these LUTs can utterly transform and enhance your visuals.
1000 Cinematic Color Presets Bundle
This color grading preset pack delivers a variety of LUTs to transform your videos into cinematic works of art. Offering 1000 unique presets spread across categories like cinematic, vintage, and travel, the bundle supports popular video editors, including Premiere Pro and After Effects. Beyond color grading, the bundle provides 15 unique VHS looks, 5 old film looks, and light leaks to add a retro touch to your content.
Free Cinematic Color Grading Presets
70 FREE LUTs for Cinematic Color Grading
This is a collection of 70 color-grading LUTs for videos. It includes a wide variety of color looks, including cinematic looks, to give your video projects a professional look. There are also 17 LUTs for enhancing Log footage.
48 FREE Custom LUTs for Log Footage
A hand-crafted bundle of color-grading LUTs for improving and optimizing log footage. This pack includes 48 different LUTs for making your videos look professional. They feature vintage and cinematic filters as well.
29 Free LUTs for Videos
This video LUTs bundle also comes with a mixed collection of color grading presets for both optimizing and enhancing your videos. It includes 29 different LUTs that feature high-quality color looks and filters.
Free Cinematic LUTs for Photos & Videos
This free LUTs pack is designed to give a cinematic look and feel to your videos and photos. It includes several color-grading LUTs with professional-looking filters that will instantly enhance your videos with a more dramatic look.
Node.js or Laravel in 2024: Decoding the Best Framework for Your Next Project
In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, choosing the right framework is crucial for the success of your next project. As we dive into 2024, two popular frameworks often come up in discussions: Node.js and Laravel. Both have their unique strengths and are suitable for different types of projects. In this article, we’ll dissect their …
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55+ Best Brochure Mockup Templates (Free & Premium)
Most clients don’t see designs the way you do. Since they’re not designers it’s hard for them to imagine what a brochure design will look like as a printed document. However, a great-looking mockup will go a long way to help them get there.
With mockups, you can show clients what your design may look like as the end result. This will not only help you to get your designs approved faster but it will help show your professionalism as well.
If you’re working on a brochure design for a client, we handpicked a few great brochure mockups you can use to present your designs in a more attractive way.
In this collection, you’ll find both free brochure mockups and premium ones for multi-page, bifold, and tri-fold brochures with various styles of designs. Take a look.
Glossy Magazine & Brochure Spread Mockup
This is an impressive mockup template ideal for presenting brochure designs using a page spread view. Its greatest features are its versatility, lifelike texture, and high-quality frame. You can easily add your design using the Smart Object layer and see it transform into an inspiring showcase.
Stylish Brochure & Magazine Mockup
This premium brochure mockup offers a realistic effect and an impressively high-resolution look for your presentation. Easy to edit with Photoshop, it features organized layers, a realistic texture, and a changeable background.
Elegant Magazine and Brochure Mockup
This brochure mockup comes with three prepared items within a well-structured PSD file and employs a smart-object feature for quick and easy customization. Suited for both bright and dark designs, it offers customizable background colors, adjustable lighting, and comes with a PDF guide for ease of use.
Bold Magazine & Brochure Mockups
This pack includes smart, high-resolution mockups that offer real-world detail for visualizing your designs in a realistic way. The templates are easy to use; simply drag and drop your design into their clearly organized layers, adjust, and save. Perfect for magazine, letter, and brochure format designs.
Stylish Magazine Cover Mockups
This is a comprehensive brochure mockup template ideal for graphic designers. Its versatile use ranges from professional presentations of cover designs to showcasing editorial layouts. With changeable backgrounds, organized layers, and high resolution, this mockup displays a realistic view of your magazine or brochure designs.
Modern A4 Brochure Mockup
This brochure mockup allows you to professionally present your creative work. It offers a realistic setting that can enhance your presentations and help you impress clients. The template includes organized layers, vibrant color options, and interchangeable backgrounds for maximum versatility.
Landscape Magazine Brochure Mockup
A terrific way to present your brochure designs. Featuring 4 customizable, well-layered PSD items, this mockup kit allows quick and effortless editing via smart objects. It caters to both bright and dark designs with adjustable light, shadows, and customizable background colors.
Creative Bifold Brochure Mockup
This is an exceptional brochure mockup for graphic designers looking to highlight their design prowess. Boasting high-quality, realistic shadows and textures, this mockup is perfect for showcasing corporate branding and design projects across various color schemes and graphics.
Catalog Brochure A4 Mockup
A professionally crafted brochure mockup template that allows for quick and efficient customization via its smart-object feature. The mockup boasts high resolution (4500 x 3000px, 300 DPI), well-organized layers, easily adjustable light settings, and customizable background colors.
Photo Album Brochure Mockup
This mockup template kit is ideal for showcasing portfolios, brochures, and photo collections. Its realistic, high-resolution design includes various views, open spreads, and changeable backgrounds, providing an unparalleled platform for visual presentation. Its versatility makes it perfect for exhibitions, book designs, and thematic photo collections.
A4 Magazine Brochure Mockup
A creative brochure mockup for graphic designers, allowing you to effectively showcase their work and corporate branding to clients. This mockup features a range of layouts including an open spread, upright cover, single page turn, and multiple pages, all presented with high-quality, realistic detailing.
Square Brochure Mockup Template
An excellent mockup template for designers wanting to show off their brochure and magazine designs. This template offers high-resolution images (4500 x 3000px at 300 DPI) that make your designs look their best, either bright or dark. It includes three well-layered PSD files with smart-object features.
A4 Magazine & Brochure Mockup
An elegant brochure mockup template with 03 components that features an easily editable, high-resolution PSD file. Its smart-object feature allows for quick design changes, while its customizable background colors and adjustable light cater to both dark and bright designs.
Bifold Brochure Mockup Template
This is a convenient mockup for presenting your bi-fold brochure designs effectively. With its 4 layered PSD files offering a 4500 x 3000 px mockup, you can easily customize the background and shadow color with smart object layers. Simply double-click the Smart Layer, insert your design, and hit save.
Magazine & Brochure Catalog Mockup
This mockup is perfect for previewing your brochure and magazine design work in a professional and stylish setting. It contains 2 well-organized, high-resolution items, with layered PSD files for easy editing. You can fully customize the background and shadows as well.
Bold Magazine & Brochure Mockup Set
The bold and stylish look of this mockup makes it a great choice for presenting luxury brochure designs. It features three PSD files, easily editable via smart objects with dimensions of 5000 x 3500 px, well-organized layers, and changeable colors.
Simple A4 Brochure Mockup
Another beautiful brochure mockup designed to showcase your publications in a sleek, modern style. With its easy-to-edit, high-resolution design, this mockup allows your content to shine in a minimalist portrait A4 format.
A5 Trifold Brochure Mockup
This A5 brochure mockup template comes with four individually styled mockups. It offers quick and easy editing via smart objects, layered PSDs for organization, and customizable background colors for both light and dark tri-fold brochure designs.
Clean Brochure Mockup Template
A clean and simple look is always a sign of professionalism. This clean mockup will help you present your brochure designs in a way that captivates your clients. It comes in 10 different views of the brochure and you can easily edit it using Photoshop to place your designs via smart objects.
Brochure & Catalog Mockup Template
This mockup doubles as both a mockup for brochures and catalogs. It comes with a simple design that allows you to show both inner pages and cover designs simultaneously. It’s perfect for showcasing your designs on portfolios as well. The template is easily editable and comes in PSD format with changeable backgrounds.
Minimal Bifold Brochure Mockup
Working on a bifold brochure design with a minimal layout? Then this minimal brochure mockup is just what you need to showcase your design. It comes in 8 different views and angles for presenting your brochure like a true professional. The background is customizable and the shadow effect is adjustable as well.
4-Fold Brochure Mockup Template
Brochures with four folds are quite popular these days as they allow you to showcase more information with less space. This mockup is designed for presenting those 4-fold brochure designs. It comes in 5 different mockup styles and in both PSD and AI file formats.
Hands Holding Brochure & Magazine Mockup
A very realistic mockup template for showing the end result of your brochure designs. This mockup is made based on a real photo that shows what your brochure will look like in a real-world environment. There are 10 different angles and scenes to choose from in this pack. And they all feature color effects and a depth of field effect.
Free Standing Tri-Fold Brochure Mockup
Even though this is a free mockup, it features a very premium look that will make your brochure look incredible. This mockup is perfect for presenting a tri-fold brochure with multiple views.
Stylish Magazine & Brochure Mockups
Even though this mockup is made for showcasing magazines, you can easily use it to show off various types of brochure designs too. The bundle includes 4 mockup layouts with customizable backgrounds.
A4 Brochure & Catalog Mockup
This bundle comes with 5 different mockup scenes for presenting your brochure designs. It’s great for showing off catalog designs as well. The template feature customizable shadows, separate objects, and smart object layers.
Simple Catalog Brochure Mockup Template
The simple and minimal design of this brochure mockup will fit in nicely for presenting modern lifestyle and fashion brochure designs. It has a very natural look with its shadow cast over the design.
Modern Trifold Brochure Mockup
A simple and modern mockup kit for presenting tri-fold brochure designs. This bundle includes 4 different mockups with easily customizable backgrounds and smart objects.
Free Brochure Mockup Template
This free brochure mockup is ideal for showing both your brochure cover and inner pages at the same time. It comes in high-resolution and easily customizable smart object layers.
Creative Magazine & Brochure Mockup
Another modern mockup template for showcasing magazines, catalogs, and brochures. This bundle has 4 different mockup scenes for you to choose from. Each template can be fully customized to your preference.
Landscape Magazine Brochure Mockup
If you’re working on a brochure design with a landscape-style layout, be sure to save this mockup set for later. There are 4 different brochure mockups in this pack with editable backgrounds and organized layers.
Simple Bifold Brochure Mockup
A simple and effective mockup template kit for showcasing bi-fold brochure designs. This bundle also comes with multiple mockup layouts for showing your brochures from different angles.
Minimal Magazine Brochure Mockup Set
This is one of the most beautiful mockups on our list. It features an elegant and minimal design for presenting magazines and landscape brochures. There are 8 different mockup scenes in this pack with customizable backgrounds.
Free Modern Tri-Fold Brochure Mockup
You can download this brochure mockup for free to present tri-fold brochures in a creative environment. It has smart objects for easily placing your designs in the mockup as well.
Free Bi-Fold Brochure Mockup Pack
A simple and free mockup template for presenting bi-fold brochures. This template can be customized with smart objects and the background is changeable as well.
Multipurpose Brochure Mockup Template
This is a set of simple and multipurpose brochure mockups that includes 7 different styles of mockup templates. It mainly includes mockups for showcasing brochure covers and has ones to show the brochure being held by hands as well. All mockups are available in fully-layered PSD files with smart object layers.
Square Brochure Mockup Template
Square-shaped brochures are a popular trend in brochure designs, especially for agencies and creative brands. This mockup is designed for showcasing those brochures in style. There are 8 attractive angels and views in this mockup pack for showing both inner pages and covers. You can edit them with Photoshop.
Modern Trifold Brochure Mockups
Want to showcase your tri-fold brochure in a more creative environment? Then be sure to grab this mockup template. It features a very modern and stylish layout for presenting tri-fold brochures like a pro. There are 2 different PSD mockups in this bundle with editable backgrounds.
7 Brochure & Magazine Mockup Templates
With this bundle of brochure mockups, you can show off your brochure designs in all kinds of views and angles. There are mockups with standing views, page-turning views, cover views, and much more. All of the mockups come with smart objects for easily placing your designs and with changeable backgrounds.
5 Tri-Fold Brochure Mockup Templates
This collection features 5 different mockup scenes for showing off tri-fold brochure designs. They are designed for presenting brochures with various angles and views. The mockups come in PSD files with 5 stylish photo filters to make your designs look even more attractive.
Free US Letter Brochure Mockup (PSD)
Grab this free mockup to present and promote your brochure designs on a budget. The template works for both brochure and magazine designs. And it’s easily editable. You can choose from several other views as well.
Free Trifold Brochure Mockup Scene (PSD)
This is a beautiful brochure mockup scene that features a professional environment for showcasing your brochures on websites and portfolios. The PSD template is free to download.
Realistic Brochure & Catalog Mockups
If you’re looking for more realistic looking mockups to make your brochure designs look amazing, this bundle of mockups is for you. It includes several mockup templates based on real photos that let you give a close-up look at your brochure designs. There are 7 mockups in the bundle with various close views and angles.
Page Turning Landscape Brochure Mockup
Presenting your landscape brochure designs will be much easier with this set of mockups. It includes several mockup designs with page-turning hands and horizontal views. The bundle comes with 8 different mockup layouts with smart objects, changeable backgrounds, and a depth of field effect.
Tri-Fold Brochure Mockups with Hands
This brochure mockup bundle includes many creative mockup designs featuring hands holding tri-fold brochures. It allows you to show open, closed, and cover views of your brochures in a professional way. You can customize the templates with Photoshop to even edit the lighting and shadow effects.
Brochure Mockup Templates PSD
Another collection of mockups for showing your designs being held by hands. This set is designed for showcasing brochure and magazine designs. There are 8 mockup styles and views in this collection. All featuring smart objects and editable backgrounds.
A5 Horizontal Brochure Mockups
You can use the mockups in this pack to present your landscape A5 brochures to clients in a creative way. Choosing from 9 high-quality views and styles, these mockups let you easily add a varnish, change backgrounds, and place your designs using smart objects.
Free Folded A4 Brochure Mockup
Another free brochure mockup for showcasing bifold brochure designs. This mockup features a luxury-themed design that will help show off your brochures for high-end brands.
Free A5 Tri-Fold Brochure Mockup
Tris tri-fold mockup is designed for A5 brochures. It comes in multiple views and styles featuring various angles of the brochure. You can download it for free to use with your personal projects.
Creative Brochure & Catalog Mockup
A different style of a brochure mockup you can use to showcase your designs in a creative way. They are ideal for portfolios and websites. You can choose from 8 different mockup templates in this pack.
Bifold Brochure Mockup Template
A simple yet very professional mockup template featuring a clean view. This mockup is perfect for presenting your bifold brochures to clients. It’s easily customizable and comes with changeable paper and background colors.
Stylish Trifold Brochure Mockup
This trifold brochure mockup is designed for modern brochures that use wider layouts. The mockup is easy to edit and includes smart objects for placing your design into the mockup.
Modern Fourfold Brochure Mockup
Another mockup template for four-fold brochure designs. This one features a simple layout that gives a full clean view of your design. The mockup can be customized to change the background as well.
A4 Brochure Mockups Bundle
This is a bundle of 8 stylish brochure mockups. These mockups are designed for A4 brochure designs and it includes multiple angles and views for showing off your brochure in style.
Free Stylish Tri-Fold Brochure Mockup
A simple brochure mockup for showing off your designs in style. This mockup is designed for tri-fold brochures and it includes smart objects for easy editing as well.
Looking for inspiration for your brochure design? Then check out our best professional brochure templates collection.
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20+ Best Disco Fonts (Retro Disco Style)
The disco era was all about bold colors, flashy lights, and an unmistakable sense of fun, and the right font can instantly transport your audience back to that time.
Whether you’re looking for a font that screams “Saturday Night Fever” or a more subtle nod to the carefree disco era, our disco fonts collection has got you covered. From glittery typefaces that shimmer like a disco ball to bold, funky fonts that get the party started, we’ve got the perfect options to help you create designs that dance off the page.
These retro disco fonts are designed to evoke the glitz and glamour of the 70s, with their flashy typefaces, playful curves, and dynamic energy. Perfect for any project that needs a dose of nostalgia and a whole lot of style.
Disco Diva – Groovy Disco Font
Disco Diva is a groovy font that truly encapsulates the vivacious spirit of the 70s disco era! Its four unique weight variants; Base, Inline, Line, and Sketch, offer a potpourri of creative opportunities, adding a funky touch to any project. Whether you are working on posters, branding, or digital content, this simple-to-install typeface will infuse an undeniable retro appeal into your designs.
Disco Rendezvous – Modern Disco Font
Disco Rendezvous is a modern disco font that marries the charm of an elegant script with a sleek sans serif font. It’s inspired by neon-lit nightclubs and legendary disco hits, capturing the essence of the golden age of disco. With abundant creative options offered by OpenType features, Disco Rendezvous brings a genuine hand-crafted feel to your titles.
Alavine Disco – Classic Disco Font
The Alavine Disco is a captivating, disco-style font that perfectly marries futurism with funk. It comes with a unique dot pattern, creating a dynamic feel ideal for eye-catching displays like posters or album covers. Despite its bold, retro look, this typeface is remarkably versatile and user-friendly for headings, banners, logos, and more.
Albercio Disco – Narrow Disco Font
Albercio Disco is a sleek, modern display typeface with a unique disco-inspired dot effect. Its sans-serif condensed design gives it a trendy vibe, perfect for adding a bold touch to any contemporary project. Tailored for display applications, it’s versatile enough for use in posters, advertisements, or digital platforms. It comes in regular and italic styles and includes uppercase, lowercase characters, numerals, and punctuation.
Arshine Disco – Creative Disco Font
Arshine Disco is a versatile, easy-to-use display font that combines retro charm with disco vibes. Its standout feature is a dynamic dot pattern, which brings a touch of vintage flair and modernity to your designs. Perfect for creating eye-catching displays, Arshine Disco works well in various sizes – ideal for headlines, logos, and banners.
Eighties – Retro Script Disco Font
The Eighties retro script font is influenced by the bold mono line, disco-style typography of the 1980s. It not only brings a timeless design to casual handwriting but is also versatile due to its minimal node feature. This font is optimal for branding, logos, social media posts, advertising, and more, with multi-language support and provisions for uppercase, lowercase, numerals, and symbols.
Retro Disco – Modern Retro Disco Font
Check out the RETRO DISCO font, a modern retro disco-style typeface that effortlessly combines quirky boldness with unique letterforms for playful, engaging designs. It offers versatility with upper and lower case modes, and three width types: Narrow, Regular, and Wide, catering to every creative demand.
Disco Queen – Stylish Disco Font
Disco Queen is an exciting, eye-catching disco-style font. Its vibrant nature makes it perfect for quotes, headers, or giving a lively edge to your client’s logo design. Your download comes with complimentary extended licensing, exciting free updates in OTF and TTF formats, and instant access.
Arbane Disco – Modern Disco Font
Arbane Disco is a unique, modern font with a nod to retro charm. Its captivating dot pattern gives it a distinct disco flair, perfect for projects that demand a touch of classic style. Versatile and user-friendly, this font works well for headlines, logos, and eye-catching displays. It comes in both regular and italic versions, supporting multilingual characters, numerals, and punctuation.
Badoney Disco – Classic Disco Style Font
Badoney Disco is a unique serif font with a retro spin, featuring a distinctive dot pattern that adds a playful hint of disco to its traditional style. Versatile and stylish, it’s perfect for creating eye-catching headlines, logos, or other displays that stand out. Despite its lively look, Badoney Disco is easy to use for both small and large typography, adding a touch of vintage charm to any design.
Benicio Disco – Retro Disco Font
Benicio Disco combines vibrant energy and playful aesthetics, delivering a unique bubble-style retro disco font. Ideal for display uses, from posters to social media, its eye-catching design infuses designs with an exciting twist. It comes in regular and italic styles, and includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, punctuation, and accents.
Smokey Brown – Funky Disco Font
Smokey Brown is a vibrant typeface, inspired by the 70’s funk and soul scene. Its bold letters and thin lines give a distinctive style that epitomizes energy and movement. It’s perfect for retro-themed designs, brand logos, or any project aiming to evoke nostalgia. This versatile font offers uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Thunderstorm – Hand Painted
Thunderstorm is a hand-painted typeface inspired by the music and pop culture of the 80s and 90s – with hints of disco, grunge, and retro elements. This versatile font, available in both ttf and otf formats, boasts multilingual support and is excellent for use in logos, posters, apparel, books, invites, quotes, packaging, and even album covers.
Fatbun – Disco Style Font
Fatbun is a whimsical, hand-lettered typeface that draws inspiration from retro disco aesthetics. Its bold style is perfect for use in a variety of formats, from social media posts and logo designs to movie or book titles. The font pack includes standard uppercase and lowercase, numerals, punctuation, multilingual characters, alternates, ligatures, and is PUA encoded.
Boho Melody – Groovy Disco Font
Experience a taste of the ’70s with Boho Melody, a groovy disco-style font. This typeface, with its retro-chic design, exudes the youthful spirit of bell-bottoms and peace signs. Its unique characters dance playfully, adding a nostalgic charm and a modern edge to your projects. Boho Melody is available in both OTF and TTF versions and is perfect for those seeking something distinct yet timeless.
Summer Flowers – Disco Font
Summer Flowers is your go-to retro-style typeface with a funky groove to it. This playful and authentic font is a brilliant addition to any hippie-inspired designs, whether it’s for logos, blog posts, ads, invitations, or even decorations. It comes in a handy zip file containing both OTF and TTF files. Enjoy enhancing your designs with this nostalgic charm!
Saturday Night – Disco Style Font Family
Saturday Night is a retro-inspired font bursting with 70s and 80s flair. This pack includes seven uniquely styled fonts boasting features such as stylistic alternates, swashes, and an impressive 777 pairs of ligatures. Ideal for headings, logos, apparel designs, and so much more, this versatile font family can add a funky vibe to any project.
Free Disco Fonts
Retro Star – Free Disco Font
This is one of the grooviest fonts on our list. It comes with a beautiful letter design with stylish curves and waves. The font features a classic retro design with disco-style elements. It’s free to use with personal projects.
Funky Round – Free Retro Disco Font
Funky Round is another classic retro font featuring a disco-style design. The font comes in two different styles and they work perfectly together to create unique vibes for titles and headings. It’s free to use with commercial projects.
Bafline Disco – Free Retro Font
This free font comes with a classic disco-themed design and it’s perfect for everything from retro graphic designs to cool custom t-shirt prints. The font is free for personal use only.
Godger Disco – Free Groovy Font
Another fun and playful disco font for your creative design projects. This free font comes with a narrow, condensed letter design that will fit perfectly with your title and headings. The font is free to use with personal projects.
Art Disco – Free Retro Font
This free font combines elements from the Disco era with the Art Deco theme to create a unique and stylish letter design. It features uneven strokes and sharp edges to create a professional look and feel as well. The font is free for commercial use.
How to Download a YouTube Video or Channel
The ability to download media on the internet almost feels like a lost art. When I was in my teens, piracy of mp3s, movies, and just about everything else via torrents and apps like Kazaa, LimeWire, Napster, etc. was in full swing. These days sites use blob URLs and other means to prevent downloads. Luckily we have tools like yt-dlp to download individual YouTube videos or entire channels of content.
To download an entire channel, you can use yt-dlp:
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/@beetlejuicearchives3490
If you’re like me and only care for the audio, you can use a few more arguments:
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/@beetlejuicearchives3490
youtube-dl used to be the standard for downloading YouTube videos but yt-dlp seems to have taken the throne. YouTube has such a wealth of information on just about anything, be sure to download content for travel, long walks, or any other reason!
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Unlock Faster Site Speed With Edge Full Page Cache
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