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Let’s face it: video editing can be an endless rabbit hole of tweaks and techniques. You’ve got the footage, but turning it into something captivating? That’s the real art! And Adobe Premiere Pro is undoubtedly a powerhouse in the editing world. But who doesn’t love a good shortcut, especially when it’s free? That’s where Adobe Premiere Templates come in—pre-designed, ready-to-use assets that can turn your video from “meh” to “whoa” without hours of fiddling.

Using free Premiere Pro templates isn’t about taking shortcuts; it’s about finding clever ways to streamline your workflow. Imagine you’re on a tight deadline, or maybe you’re looking to impress with a sleek promo video but don’t want to start from scratch. These templates, from transitions to titles, are like tools in a magician’s kit, letting you focus on storytelling while the heavy lifting’s done for you.

Whether you’re hunting for the perfect title slide, a cinematic opener, or some eye-popping transitions, there’s no shortage of free Premiere Pro templates to download. The beauty? You get all the professional polish without the steep price tag. So, go ahead, explore these handpicked gems, and let your creativity take the reins!

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We had fun in my previous article exploring the goodness of scrolly animations supported in today’s versions of Chrome and Edge (and behind a feature flag in Firefox for now). Those are by and large referred to as “scroll-driven” animations. However, “scroll triggering” is something the Chrome team is still working on. It refers to the behavior you might have seen in the wild in which a point of no return activates a complete animation like a trap after our hapless scrolling user ventures past a certain point. You can see JavaScript examples of this on the Wow.js homepage which assembles itself in a sequence of animated entrances as you scroll down. There is no current official CSS solution for scroll-triggered animations — but Ryan Mulligan has shown how we can make it work by cleverly combining the animation-timeline property with custom properties and style queries.

That is a very cool way to combine new CSS features. But I am not done being overly demanding toward the awesome emergent animation timeline technology I didn’t know existed before I read up on it last month. I noticed scroll timelines and view timelines are geared toward animations that play backward when you scroll back up, unlike the Wow.js example where the dogs roll in and then stay. Bramus mentions the same point in his exploration of scroll-triggered animations. The animations run in reverse when scrolling back up. This is not always feasible. As a divorced Dad, I can attest that the Tinder UI is another example of a pattern in which scrolling and swiping can have irreversible consequences.

Scroll till the cows come home with Web-Slinger.css

Believe it or not, with a small amount of SCSS and no JavaScript, we can build a pure CSS replacement of the Wow.js library, which I hereby christen “Web-Slinger.css.” It feels good to use the scroll-driven optimized standards already supported by some major browsers to make a prototype library. Here’s the finished demo and then we will break down how it works. I have always enjoyed the deliberately lo-fi aesthetic of the original Wow.js page, so it’s nice to have an excuse to create a parody. Much profession, so impress.

Teach scrolling elements to roll over and stay

Web-Slinger.css introduces a set of class names in the format .scroll-trigger-n and .on-scroll-trigger-n. It also defines --scroll-trigger-n custom properties, which are inherited from the document root so we can access them from any CSS class. These conventions are more verbose than Wow.js but also more powerful. The two types of CSS classes decouple the triggers of our one-off animations from the elements they trigger, which means we can animate anything on the page based on the user reaching any scroll marker.

Here’s a basic example that triggers the Animate.css animation “flipInY” when the user has scrolled to the <div> marked as .scroll-trigger-8.

<div class="scroll-trigger-8"></div>
<img 
  class="on-scroll-trigger-8 animate__animated animate__flipInY" 
  src="https://i.imgur.com/wTWuv0U.jpeg"
>

A more advanced use is the sticky “Cownter” (trademark pending) at the top of the demo page, which takes advantage of the ability of one trigger to activate an arbitrary number of animations anywhere in the document. The Cownter increments as new cows appear then displays a reset button once we reach the final scroll trigger at the bottom of the page.

Here is the markup for the Cownter:

<div class="header">
  <h2 class="cownter"></h2>
  <div class="animate__animated  animate__backInDown on-scroll-trigger-12">
    <br>
    <a href="#" class="reset">🔁 Play again</a>
  </div>
</div>

…and the CSS:

.header {
  .cownter::after {
    --cownter: calc(var(--scroll-trigger-2) + var(--scroll-trigger-4) + var(--scroll-trigger-8) + var(--scroll-trigger-11));
    --pluralised-cow: 'cows';

    counter-set: cownter var(--cownter);
    content: "Have " counter(cownter) " " var(--pluralised-cow) ", man";
  }

  @container style(--scroll-trigger-2: 1) and style(--scroll-trigger-4: 0) {
    .cownter::after {
      --pluralised-cow: 'cow';
    }
  }
  
  a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color:blue;
  }
}

:root:has(.reset:active) * {
  animation-name: none;
}

The demo CodePen references Web-Slinger.css from a separate CodePen, which I reference in my final demo the same way I would an external resource.

Sidenote: If you have doubts about the utility of style queries, behold the age-old cow pluralization problem solved in pure CSS.

How does Web Slinger like to sling it?

The secret is based on an iconic thought experiment by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who once asked: If the view() function lets you style an element once it comes into view, what if you take that opportunity to style it so it can never be scrolled out of view? Would that element not stare back into you for eternity?

.scroll-trigger {
  animation-timeline: view();
  animation-name: stick-to-the-top;
  animation-fill-mode: both;
  animation-duration: 1ms;
}

@keyframes stick-to-the-top {
  .1%, to {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
  }
}

This idea sounded too good to be true, reminiscent of the urge when you meet a genie to ask for unlimited wishes. But it works! The next puzzle piece is how to use this one-way animation technique to control something we’d want to display to the user. Divs that instantly stick to the ceiling as soon as they enter the viewport might have their place on a page discussing the movie Alien, but most of the time this type of animation won’t be something we want the user to see.

That’s where named view progress timelines come in. The empty scroll trigger element only has the job of sticking to the top of the viewport as soon as it enters. Next, we set the timeline-scope property of the <body> element so that it matches the sticky element’s view-timeline-name. Now we can apply Ryan’s toggle custom property and style query tricks to let each sticky element trigger arbitrary one-off animations anywhere on the page!

/** Each trigger element will cause a toggle named with 
  * the convention `--scroll-trigger-n` to be flipped 
  * from 0 to 1, which will unpause the animation on
  * any element with the class .on-scroll-trigger-n
 **/

:root {
  animation-name: run-scroll-trigger-1, run-scroll-trigger-2 /*etc*/;
  animation-duration: 1ms;
  animation-fill-mode: forwards;
  animation-timeline: --trigger-timeline-1, --trigger-timeline-2 /*etc*/;
  timeline-scope: --trigger-timeline-1, --trigger-timeline-2 /*etc*/;
}

@property --scroll-trigger-1 {
  syntax: "<integer>";
  initial-value: 0;
  inherits: true;
}
@keyframes run-scroll-trigger-1 {
  to {
    --scroll-trigger-1: 1;
  }
}

/** Add this class to arbitrary elements we want 
  * to only animate once `.scroll-trigger-1` has come 
  * into view, default them to paused state otherwise
 **/
.on-scroll-trigger-1 {
  animation-play-state: paused;
}

/** The style query hack will run the animations on
  * the element once the toggle is set to true
 **/
@container style(--scroll-trigger-1: 1) {
  .on-scroll-trigger-1 {
    animation-play-state: running;
  }
}

/** The trigger element which sticks to the top of 
  * the viewport and activates the one-way  animation 
  * that will unpause the animation on the 
  * corresponding element marked with `.on-scroll-trigger-n` 
  **/
.scroll-trigger-1 {
  view-timeline-name: --trigger-timeline-1;
} 

Trigger warning

We generate the genericized Web-Slinger.css in 95 lines of SCSS, which isn’t too bad. The drawback is that the more triggers we need, the larger the compiled CSS file. The numbered CSS classes also aren’t semantic, so it would be great to have native support for linking a scroll-triggered element to its trigger based on IDs, reminiscent of the popovertarget attribute for HTML buttons — except this hypothetical attribute would go on each target element and specify the ID of the trigger, which is the opposite of the way popovertarget works.

<!-- This is speculative — do not use -->
<scroll-trigger id="my-scroll-trigger"></scroll-trigger>
<div class="rollIn" scrolltrigger="my-scroll-trigger">Hello world</div>

Do androids dream of standardized scroll triggers?

As I mentioned at the start, Bramus has teased that scroll-triggered animations are something we’d like to ship in a future version of Chrome, but it still needs a bit of work before we can do that. I’m looking forward to standardized scroll-triggered animations built into the browser. We could do worse than a convention resembling Web-Slinger.css for declaratively defining scroll-triggered animations, but I know I am not objective about Web Slinger as its creator. It’s become a bit of a sacred cow for me so I shall stop milking the topic — for now.

Feel free to reference the prototype Web-Slinger.css library in your experimental CodePens, or fork the library itself if you have better ideas about how scroll-triggered animations could be standardized.

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One recent emerging trend is an increased use of gothic styles and themes. This trend captures everything from imagery and color schemes to fonts and overall styling.

It’s an almost natural progression and evolution from all of the dark mode designs we’ve seen in recent years to reversion to gothic style.

Here, we’ll look at gothic style design and how you can make this design trend – potentially – work for you. Whether that’s in a poster, flyer, typographic choice, or a website. Let’s dive in!

What is Gothic Style?

Gothic style derived from architecture in the 18th century and was later applied to graphic design. It is characterized by its use of ornate, intricate details, pointed arches, and vertical lines and is a design style that has ebbed and flowed over time.

In modern graphic design, gothic style design often refers to a contemporary interpretation of this historic design style. You’ll often find bold, blocky, or ornate lettering and graphics with a dark, moody color palette.

Characteristics of the Gothic Style

The first identifier of gothic style is often imagery. If you’ve been watching the Netflix series, “Wednesday,” you are no stranger to this style. There’s a distinct gothic vibe from the title typography to every image promoting the series and therein.

The gothic style has a distinctive influence on graphic design and can be seen in various design elements. Here are some other things to look for in gothic design elements:

• Ornate and intricate details: Pay special attention to borders, patterns, and typography.
• Dark color palette: You’ll find a lot of black, gray, and dark red or purple, which can create a sense of drama and mystery.
• Textures: Stone, metal, or wood to create a sense of authenticity and age.
• Symbolism and iconography: Symbolic elements, such as crosses, skulls, or gargoyles can be used to convey a sense of power, mystery, or horror.
• Emphasis on verticality: Vertical lines and forms, which can create a sense of height and grandeur are popular and often come across in visuals such as tall, narrow windows or pointed arches.
• Rough edges: Sharp lines might be offset by ragged or rough edges for lines, type elements, or even image containers.
• Gothic typography: Blackletter fonts are a common characteristic of Gothic design, often used in titles, headlines, and logos.

Gothic Fonts

There are two schools of gothic typography – more traditional blackletter or Old English fonts and modern, more experimental styles that pay homage to the old style.

Modern gothic fonts often have sharp, angular shapes and intricate details, which can evoke a sense of mystery, elegance, and sophistication. They are commonly used in branding and advertising for products and services that target a younger, edgier demographic.

Regardless of the time period, almost all of the typography in a gothic style shares some common visual details.

• Sharp, pointed edges that create a sense of drama and intensity. The letters often have pointed serifs or sharp, triangular shapes.
• Intricate details with highly decorative loops, swirls, and embellishments to create an ornate appearance.
• Vertical emphasis with tall, narrow letterforms that create a sense of height and grandeur.
• Lack of curves focusing on straight lines and sharp angles.
• Old-world charm that evokes historical roots, feelings of tradition or elegance, and maybe a hint of spookiness.

Tips for Using this Trend Well

The gothic style can be a striking choice, but it isn’t for every type of project. Context is extremely important here; the wrong content with a gothic style can feel off-base and jarring.

There are, though, many ways you can use gothic styles. Use this design trend with content that has historical or traditional themes, gothic-inspired products or services, elements that need high drama, or to create a high-end feel.

Remember that gothic doesn’t have to feel “dark.” It can also feel traditional.

The gothic style has a long history and is associated with many different historical periods and artistic movements, so it can be used to evoke a sense of authenticity and tradition.

You’ll find this style is often associated with heavy metal music, establishing that hard-edge connection between the visual aesthetic and the audio. For the same reason, you’ll often find gothic design themes with scary movies and medieval themes.

Gothic design can work exceptionally well for projects that have an intense vibe. Bold shapes and dark color help put extra emphasis on this feeling. Additionally, this can create a sense of authority and power.

Pair gothic images and typefaces with more simple and neutral elements so the design doesn’t get overwhelming. That may include simple complementary textures, backgrounds, images, and body text in a regular sans-serif style.

Finally, you might associate elements of a gothic style with high-end luxury. This can be especially true when gothicism is minimalized but elements are there, such as just using typography in this style. This creates a sense of elegance and sophistication, to help reinforce a brand’s premium status.

Templates with Gothic Styles

Start projects in a gothic style a little bit quicker with a template or font that’s in a gothic style. Here are a few downloadable options from Envato Elements that we love.

Gothic Birthday Invitation

Live Music YouTube Thumbnail

Moustache Party Flyer

Trotont Gothic Font

Cambridge Bold Decorative Gothic Font

Samaz Gothic Vintage Typeface

Conclusion

A gothic style can be a moody and fun way to design something a little differently. Just keep in mind that it may not be suitable in all design contexts. You’ll likely avoid gothic elements in designs aimed at children or those that require a more playful or whimsical aesthetic.

This design trend has come and gone a few times, and it’ll be interesting to see how much staying power it has now.

Color is an element that can make or break a design, and that rule holds true for presentation design as well. Choosing the right PowerPoint color scheme is super important.

But there’s one extra thing to consider – where your presentation will be given. A PowerPoint presentation can look quite different on a computer or tablet versus on a projected screen.

When it comes to selecting a PowerPoint color scheme, this is an important consideration. We’ve rounded nearly stylish PowerPoint color schemes as inspiration. While darker color schemes might look great close-up on screens, opt for lighter backgrounds (for enhanced readability) for projected presentations.

Note: The last color in each scheme is for the slide background.

1. Shocking Orange

When it comes to marketing and creative presentations, the orange color is the go-to choice among professionals. It not only works perfectly with both light and dark color pairings but also helps highlight all the important parts of a slide more clearly than any other color.

In this example, the bright orange (identified as Shocking Orange) instantly grabs the attention on top of the white background and makes the black typography highly visible and much easier to read.

2. Neon Green

Neon-themed high-contrast colors are a popular choice among marketers these days as they are quite effective as an accent color. These bright colors instantly pop out, highlighting key objects and text above all else.

Colors like Neon Green work best with a darker background. When you combine it with white color typography, you will come up with a color scheme that delivers results.

3. Orange and Greyish Turquoise

As we mentioned before, orange color is a popular choice in PowerPoint color schemes. But it doesn’t always have to be the dominating color. Sometimes, when you pair it with another light, secondary color, it gives you a pleasant and soothing color scheme.

In this example, you can see a light orange color being used to highlight the call to actions (CTAs) across the slideshow while a greyish-turquoise color is used to bring balance to the overall look and feel.

4. Bright Purple and Dark Blue

When creating a PowerPoint color scheme, choosing the right accent color is the key to achieving a professional vibe for the entire presentation. The important thing is to choose a color that sticks out without taking away the attention from the rest of the elements.

A color scheme with a bright purple accent goes perfectly with a dark background. Then you can add another dark blue to the mix to create another accent color to balance the attention.

5. Blue and Orange

A great thing about the orange color is how it goes well together with many other colors. It’s the king of accent colors. Blue is another color that comes out on top of the list.

Much like orange, the color blue is a great choice for creating attractive accents. And it works even better when you put those colors together.

6. Black and Gold

If your goal is to create a high-end and luxurious vibe across a PowerPoint slideshow, then no other color scheme works better than the simple yet elegant black and gold.

The classic black and gold color combination is considered one of the most iconic color schemes that have been used for decades by everyone from high-end fashion brands to luxury hotels and more. It’s the ideal color pairing for a classic, timeless look.

7. Pink and Gray

If you’re a fan of soft, pastel colors, this color scheme will work wonders for your presentation design. It’s especially an effective choice for lifestyle and fashion-related slideshows.

In this example slideshow design, you will see multiple shades of Pink, sometimes even as gradients, for the accents. This color blends beautifully with the light grayish background.

8. Red and White

PowerPoint color schemes don’t always have to be so complicated. Sometimes, a simple basic color combination is more than enough to create a compelling presentation design. This red and white color scheme shows how it’s done.

The color red is often associated with courage and authority. As a result, it is a go-to choice among modern brands and businesses for creating presentations that showcase their dominance in the market.

9. Cream and Green

This beautiful and soft color combination is a great choice for adding a soothing aesthetic to your presentation. It’s perfect for making PowerPoint slideshows for fashion, lifestyle, and travel-related topics.

In this design, the cream color works in harmony with the green to create a well-balanced look for the entire presentation. The color scheme also makes it much easier to bring more attention to the text and images.

10. Gray and Yellow

The color yellow is a great choice for accents but with the wrong color combination, it could mean disaster.

The gray color used in the above example is made of a combination of blue and cyan, which gives the design a unique background to effectively highlight the yellow accents without straining the viewer’s eyes.

11. Blue, Gray Green & Orange

With a bright overall scheme that’s easy on the eyes, this color scheme can help you create a modern PowerPoint presentation that’s readable and friendly. You can even tweak the colors somewhat to better work with your brand, if necessary.

The best thing about this color palette is that it lends itself to plenty of different presentation styles and applications.

12. Violet Gradient

Using the first two colors noted above, you can create a dark-to-light monotone gradient that can make for a modern PowerPoint design style.

Take this concept and expand it to any other colors you like for your spin on this modern color scheme.

13. Mint and Orange

On paper, these colors don’t seem to blend all that well, but with the right application min and orange on a black background can work.

Use a pair of colors like this for presentations where you are trying to make a bold statement or impact. This concept is often great for trendy topics or ideas that are a little unconventional.

14. Bright Blue and Light

The brighter, the better! Bright blue color schemes are a major trend in PowerPoint design … and for good reason. The color combination creates a bright, light feel with easy readability. Those are two things that pretty much everyone wants in a presentation template design.

The other thing that’s great about a color scheme like this – which focuses on one color – is that it matches practically everything else in the design with ease. It’s great for image-heavy presentations or those where text elements are a key focal point.

15. Teal and Lime

Two colors that you might not expect to see paired create a classy combo that’s interesting and engaging. Both teal and lime are considered “new neutrals” and work with a variety of colors easily. (What’s somewhat unexpected is putting them together.)

What’s great about this PowerPoint color scheme is that the extra interest from the hues can help generate extra attention for slides. The template in the example also mixes and matches teal and green primary color blocks to keep it interesting from slide to slide.

16. Colorful Gradients

Gradients are a color trend that just keeps reinventing and resurfacing. In the latest iteration, gradients are bright with a lot of color. Designers are working across the color wheel for gradients that have more of a rainbow effect throughout the design, even if individual gradients are more subtle.

What you are likely to see is a variety of different gradients throughout a project with different colors, but maybe a dominant color to carry the theme. Use this for presentation designs that are meant to be more fun, lighter, and highly engaging.

17. Light Blue Minimal

This color scheme with light blue and a minimal aesthetic is super trendy and so easy to read. You can add a lot of style with a black-and-white style for images or a deep blue accent for header text.

While a pale blue is ideal here, you could also consider experimenting with other pastels and the same overall theme for a modern presentation design.

18. Bright with Dark Background

The combination of bright colors on a dark background can be fun and quite different from the traditional PowerPoint color schemes that are often on white or light backgrounds. This design style for a presentation is bold and engaging but can be a challenge if you aren’t comfortable with that much color.

When you use a style like this, it is important to think about the presentation environment to ensure that everything will look as intended. A design like this, for example, can work well on screens, but not as well on a projector or in a large room.

19. Navy and Orange

The navy and orange color combination is stylish and classic for presentation design. To add a fresh touch consider some of the effects such as the template above, with color blocking and overlays to add extra interest.

What makes this color combination pop is the element of contrast between a dark and a bright pair. The navy here is almost a neutral hue and works with almost any other design element.

20. Dark and Light Green

A modern take on a monotone color scheme involves using two similar colors that aren’t exactly tints and tones of one another. This pairing of dark green and light (almost minty) green does precisely that.

What’s nice about this color scheme is that the colors can be used almost interchangeably as primary elements or accents. It provides a lot of flexibility in the presentation design.

21. Bright Crystal Blue

Blue presentation color schemes will always be in style. The only thing that changes is the variance of the hue. This pair of blues – a bright crystal blue with a darker teal – works in almost the same way as the pair of greens above.

What’s nice about this color palette though is that the dark color is the accent here. That’s a modern twist on color design for presentations.

22. Blue and Yellow

Blue and yellow are classic pairings and can make for a striking presentation color combination. With a bright white background, these hues stand out in a major way.

What works here is the element of contrast. A darker blue with a brighter yellow creates an almost yin and yang effect with color. The only real caution is to take care with yellow on a white or light background with fonts or other light elements.

23. Teal

Teal is a personality-packed color choice. If you are looking for a bold statement with a PowerPoint template, start here.

While the above color scheme also includes a hint of yellow for accents, the teal color option is strong enough to stand alone. You could consider a tint or tone for a mono-look. It also pairs amazingly well with black-and-white images.

Teal is a fun color option that will provide a lot of practical use with your slide deck.

24. Bright Coral

This color scheme is one of those that you will either love or hate. The bright coral color is powerful and generates an immediate reaction.

It’s also quite trendy and will stand out from many of the other more bland PowerPoint colors that you may encounter. This is a great option for a startup that wants to present with a bang or a brand that has a similar color in its palette. It may not work so well for more traditional brands or those that are more conservative with their slide designs.

25. Dark Mode Colors

A dark mode color scheme might be the biggest trend in all of design right now, and that also applies to presentation design.

This purple and emerald color paired with black with white text looks amazing. It is sleek, modern, and has high visual appeal without having to use a lot of images.

This works best for digital presentations when you don’t have concerns about room lighting to worry about.

If you aren’t ready to jump into dark mode on your own, the Harber template above is a great start with nice color, gradients, and interesting shapes throughout the slide types.

26. Navy and Lime

A navy and lime combination is a modern take on colorful neutrals that are anything but boring.

These colors have a nice balance with a white or light background and are fairly easy to use. With so many brands already using blue in their base color palette, this is an option that works and is an extension of existing elements for many brands. (Use your blue and add the lime to it.)

Also, with this color combination, the idea of a minimal overall slide structure is nice so that the power of the colors and impact comes through. They work beside images in full color or black and white.

27. Modern Blue

When you aren’t planning to use brand colors – or maybe as a startup or independent contractor so you don’t have them yet – a modern color combination can add the right flair to a PowerPoint presentation.

The bright grayish-blue in the Lekro PowerPoint template – you can find it here – adds the right amount of color without overwhelming the content. Plus, subtle orange accents help guide the eye throughout this PowerPoint color scheme. https://elements.envato.com/lekro-powerpoint-presentation-67YW3M

28. Blackish and Yellow

While at first pass, black and yellow might seem like a harsh color combination, it can set the tone for a project that should emanate strength. This PowerPoint color scheme softens the harshness of the duo with a blackish color, that’s grayer and has a softer feel.

Pair this combo on a light background or with black and white images for a stylish, mod look.

29. Orange and White

A bright color can soften the harshness of a stark PowerPoint design. Especially when used for larger portions of the content area, such as background swatches or to help accent particular elements.

The Sprint template makes great use of color with a simple palette – orange and white with black text – but has slide ideas that incorporate the color throughout for something with a more “designed” look to it. (And if you aren’t a fan of the orange, change the color for use with this template to keep the modern feel.)

30. Purple

Purple presentations are in. The color, which was once avoided by many in design projects, has flourished with recent color trends.

Because more funky, bright colors are popular, a presentation with a purple focus can be acceptable for a variety of uses. The use in Batagor template has a modern design with a deep header in the featured color, which works best with images that aren’t incredibly bold in terms of color.

31. Blue-Green Gradients

Another trending item in color is the use of gradients. This trend can be applied to PowerPOint presentations as well.

Use a blue-to-green gradient for a soft and harmonious color scheme that won’t get in the way of content. Use each hue alone for accents and informational divots throughout the presentation design.

32. Black and White

Minimalism is a design trend that never goes away. A black-and-white (or gray) presentation screams class and sophistication.

It can also be easy to work with when you don’t want the color to get in the way of your message. And if a design can stand alone without color, you know it works.

33. Reds and Black

If you are designing a presentation for viewing on screens, such as desktops or tablets, a dark background with bright color accents and white text can work well. (This combination gets a lot trickier on projector displays.)

While reverse text and red aren’t always recommended, you can see from the Nova template that they can be a stunning combination. But note, this modern color scheme is best for specific content and audiences.

34. Blue and Pink

This color scheme is a spin on Pantone’s colors of the year from 2016. https://designshack.net/articles/graphics/how-to-use-the-pantone-color-of-the-year-in-design-projects/ The brighter, bolder versions of rose quartz and serenity and fun and sophisticated.

The unexpected combo sets the tone with a strong, trustworthy blue and adds softness with the paler pink. The colors work equally well with white or darker backgrounds.

35. Blue and Green

Blue and green accents can help a black or white background come to life in a presentation template. The colors here can work with either background style, based on how you plan to display your presentation.

What’s nice about these colors is that they are pretty neutral – since both are found in nature – and can be used with ease for design or text elements in a PowerPoint color scheme.

36. Beige and Gray

If you are looking for a softer color palette, consider beige and gray. These hues can work well on screens or projected, making them a versatile option.

The nice thing about such a neutral palette is that it gives content plenty of room, so that will be the true focus of the presentation.

37. Tints and Tones

While the purplish blue-gray in the Business PowerPoint Presentation template is stunning, it represents a greater trend in presentation design. Pick a color – maybe your dominant brand color – and use tints and tones for the presentation color scheme.

By mixing the color with white or black and gray, you’ll end up with a stunning set of color variations that match your messaging.

38. Bold Rainbow

While most of the color schemes featured here only include a color or two, bright color schemes with wider color variations are trending.

This distinct “rainbow style” can be somewhat difficult to use without rules for each color. Proceed with caution.

39. Bright Neutrals

Lime green is the brightest “neutral” you might ever use. A fun palette that’s versatile can be a solid foundation for a color palette.

It works exceptionally well in the Rouka PowerPoint template thanks to a pairing with a subtle gray background. Using a light, but not white, background can be great for screens and projected presentations because it takes away some of the harshness of a white background. The subtle coloring is easier on the eyes for reading and viewing.

40. Rich Browns

Browns aren’t often what comes to mind when thinking of building a color scheme, but rich browns can be a modern option.

Pair a neutral beige-brown with a darker color for an interesting contrast that works with almost any style of content.

41. Mint Green

Go super trendy with a modern and streamlined palette of mint green and gray on white. While this combination can have a minimal feel, it also adds a touch of funkiness to the design.

Add another hint of color – think orange – for extra accents.

42. Dark Gray and Blue

It doesn’t get more classy than a combination of grays and blues. This new take on a classic color scheme adds another brighter blue as well to pick up on modern trends.

Just be careful with text using a dark background such as this one. White is probably your best option for typography (and look for a font with thicker strokes!)

When the days are gray and misty as they are in many parts of the world in November, there’s no better remedy than a bit of colorful inspiration. To bring some good vibes to your desktops this month, artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creative ideas and designed unique and inspiring wallpapers that are bound to sweeten up your November.

The wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar for November 2024 and can be downloaded for free — as it has been a monthly tradition here at Smashing Magazine for more than 13 years already. As a little bonus goodie, we also added a selection of November favorites from our wallpapers archives to the post. Maybe you’ll spot one of your almost-forgotten favorites in here, too?

A huge thank-you to everyone who shared their wallpapers with us this month — this post wouldn’t exist without you. Happy November!

• You can click on every image to see a larger preview.
• We respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience through their works. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves.
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  Feeling inspired? We are always looking for creative talent and would love to feature your desktop wallpaper in one of our upcoming posts. We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with!

“Today, we celebrate the saxophone, an instrument that has added its signature sound to jazz, rock, classical, and so much more. From smooth solos to bold brass harmonies, the sax has shaped the soundtrack of our lives. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just love its iconic sound, let’s show some love to this musical marvel!” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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“The end of the year is approaching, and winter is just around the corner, so we’ll spend this month in the Alps. The snow has arrived in the mountains, and we can take advantage of it to ski or have a hot coffee while we watch the flakes fall.” — Designed by Veronica Valenzuela from Spain.

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Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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Designed by Cronix from the United States.

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“A peaceful, minimalist wallpaper of a lone cartoon astronaut floating in space surrounded by planets and stars.” — Designed by Reethu from London.

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Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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Designed by Cronix from the United States.

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“November 25th is the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.” We wanted to create a wallpaper that can hopefully contribute to building awareness and support.” — Designed by Friendlystock from Greece.

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“When playing with lines, which were at the beginning displaying a square, I finally arrived to this drawing, and I was surprised. I thought it would make a nice wallpaper for one’s desktop, doesn’t it?” — Designed by Philippe Brouard from France.

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“Inspired by the transition from autumn to winter.” — Designed by Tecxology from India.

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“November is autumn in all its splendor. Earthy colors, falling leaves, and afternoons in the warmth of the home. But it is also adventurous and exciting and why not, different. We sit in Bali contemplating Pura Ulun Danu Bratan. We don’t know if it’s sunset or dusk, but… does that really matter?” — Designed by Veronica Valenzuela Jimenez from Spain.

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“Autumn coziness, which is created by fallen leaves, pumpkins, and cups of cocoa, inspired our designers for this wallpaper. — Designed by MasterBundles from Ukraine.

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“Been looking for a mysterious, gloomy, yet beautiful desktop wallpaper for this winter season? We’ve got you, as this month’s calendar marks Jellyfish Day. On November 3rd, we celebrate these unique, bewildering, and stunning marine animals. Besides adorning your screen, we’ve got you covered with some jellyfish fun facts: they aren’t really fish, they need very little oxygen, eat a broad diet, and shrink in size when food is scarce. Now that’s some tenacity to look up to.” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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“Autumn can be dreary, especially in November, when rain starts pouring every day. We wanted to summon better days, so that’s how this colourful November calendar was created. Open your umbrella and let’s roll!” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Spain.

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“I designed some Halloween characters and then this idea came to my mind — a bat family hanging around in the moonlight. A cute and scary mood is just perfect for autumn.” — Designed by Carmen Eisendle from Germany.

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Designed by Glynnis Owen from Australia.

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“Kindness drives humanity. Be kind. Be humble. Be humane. Be the best of yourself!” — Designed by Color Mean Creative Studio from Dubai.

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“Anbani means alphabet in Georgian. The letters that grow on that tree are the Georgian alphabet. It’s very unique!” — Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Georgia.

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“By the end of autumn, ferocious Poseidon will part from tinted clouds and timid breeze. After this uneven clash, the sky once more becomes pellucid just in time for imminent luminous snow.” — Designed by Ana Masnikosa from Belgrade, Serbia.

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Designed by Bart Bonte from Belgium.

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“It is autumn! It is raining and thus… it is mushroom season! It is the perfect moment to go to the forest and get the best mushrooms to do the best recipe.” — Designed by Verónica Valenzuela from Spain.

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“The smell of winter is lingering in the air. The time to be home! Winter reminds us of good food, of the warmth, the touch of a friendly hand, and a talk beside the fire. Keep calm and let us welcome winter.” — Designed by Acodez IT Solutions from India.

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“We were inspired by the nature around us and the universe above us, so we created an out-of-this-world calendar. Now, let us all stop for a second and contemplate on preserving our forests, let us send birds of passage off to warmer places, and let us think to ourselves — if not on Earth, could we find a home somewhere else in outer space?” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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Designed by Elise Vanoorbeek from Belgium.

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Designed by ActiveCollab from the United States.

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Designed by Maria Porter from the United States.

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“November is the Peanut Butter Month so I decided to make a wallpaper around that. As everyone knows peanut butter goes really well with some jelly so I made two sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly. Together they make the best combination.” — Designed by Senne Mommens from Belgium.

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“On December 7, we mark International Civil Aviation Day, celebrating those who prove day by day that the sky really is the limit. As the engine of global connectivity, civil aviation is now, more than ever, a symbol of social and economic progress and a vehicle of international understanding. This monthly calendar is our sign of gratitude to those who dedicate their lives to enabling everyone to reach their dreams.” — Designed by PopArt Studio from Serbia.

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“Those chill November nights when you see mountain tops covered with the first snow sparkling in the moonlight.” — Designed by Jovana Djokic from Serbia.

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Designed by Xenia Latii from Germany.

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“Whether or not you celebrate Thanksgiving, there’s certain things that always make the harvest season special. As a Floridian, I’m a big fan of any signs that the weather might be cooling down soon, too!” — Designed by Dorothy Timmer from the United States.

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“Universal Children’s Day, November 20. It feels like a dream world, it invites you to let your imagination flow, see the details, and find the child inside you.” — Designed by Luis Costa from Portugal.

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Designed by Cedric Bloem from Belgium.

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When was the last time you updated your design portfolio? (If you’re like me, it’s probably been a while.) Maintaining a fresh portfolio is a good way to show off your skills to potential clients and can be helpful when looking back on work for annual contest entries.

If you’ve fallen behind with your portfolio design, or just need a new portfolio in general, this is a great opportunity to create something using trendy techniques and visuals.

A modern portfolio using design trends can make a great impression. A portfolio is also a representation of your skills — so design wisely! Here’s a look at some of our favorite portfolio design trends.

Personal Touch

A portfolio is a place to show off who you are, your style, and serve as an introduction to potential clients or employers. Make it personal.

By using language and a tone that feels like you and a photo or video that shows your personality, you can start to establish a connection online with those who visit your portfolio. People who know you personally might even say they can “really see you” in the design – literally or figuratively.

In the example above, Colin Reitz uses a fun video to help show he’s a personable, friendly, enthusiastic designer. It’s an inviting option that makes him feel approachable, a good thing for a freelancer.

Brutalist Style

The brutalist trend that’s popped up all over website design also applies to portfolio sites as well.

The good thing about brutalism for a portfolio is that it can give images and work more room to shine without so many effects in the design. The challenge is that it could turn off some potential connections that might not appreciate the bluntness of the design.

An “almost brutal” aesthetic is the balance that most designers go with for their portfolios.

A Curated Homepage

Michael Collins is an experienced director and design strategist who likes to work at the intersection of curiosity, reasoning, and imagination to create one of a kind user experiences and future-oriented solutions.

What stands out in his portfolio website is the way the homepage has been curated. Having a clean and simple layout that does not require too much scrolling helps in providing an easy user experience.

Unexpected Visuals

If there is a single image on the homepage of a portfolio, it tends to be of the designer or of a specific piece of work. But what if it is something completely unexpected?

That’s what designers are doing more of. They are creating interesting elements to help set their portfolios apart so that they don’t look like the sea of other portfolio sites that potentially come across hiring managers’ desks.

In the example above, Ryo Irago uses a bit of beautifully created imagery to draw you in. The design of the homepage is stunning, the image is captivating, and if nothing else you’ll likely scroll to learn more (which is exactly the intention of a portfolio design such as this).

Subtle Animation

A website portfolio is a perfect place to show off some of your design skills. Use a cool technique or trendy element to create just the mood to show your design style and ability. For many designers right now, this includes using subtle animated effects – often with other bold elements – to bring attention to portfolio designs.

Eumray’s portfolio does just that with big, bold typography that explains what they do with a nifty animation with the photo. (A headshot on a portfolio website is another design trend that’s hung on for a long time.)

The use of space here and a black-and-white color scheme are also trendy elements, making this portfolio seem very in the moment. There are other subtle animations below the scroll that tie everything together beautifully as well.

Show, Don’t Tell

The “show, don’t tell” concept has been a big part of website design for a long time. It can work equally well for portfolio sites, by telling visitors what the design does or where to find information about their work.

Here, Rekhchand Sahu uses bouncing icons to help take you to design elements and information. The overall aesthetic is simple and easy to understand with a clear headline/hero text area.

Click on the icons for more work or scroll for a selection of pieces. The design feels modern and shows the type of style that you’ll get from this designer/developer.

Cute Illustrations

Cute illustrations are becoming increasingly popular in portfolio design as they add a touch of personality and whimsy to the presentation. These illustrations often feature playful characters, soft color palettes, and hand-drawn elements that make the design feel approachable and fun.

By incorporating charming and lighthearted illustrations, portfolio sites can establish an immediate connection with visitors, making the content more memorable. This trend works particularly well for creatives in fields like illustration, animation, or children’s media, where a friendly and engaging aesthetic can help showcase the artist’s unique style.

Incorporating cute illustrations doesn’t mean compromising on professionalism. When used thoughtfully, these elements can enhance the storytelling aspect of a portfolio, guiding users through the site with visual cues that add context and personality.

High Contrast Colors

High-contrast colors make a bold statement in portfolio site design by using vivid and opposing hues to draw attention to key elements. This approach involves pairing light and dark colors, or complementary colors, to create a striking visual effect that captures the viewer’s eye. High-contrast designs are particularly effective for portfolios that want to make a memorable first impression.

Using high-contrast colors can also enhance the site’s usability by clearly differentiating sections, buttons, and calls to action. When implementing this trend, it’s important to maintain a balance to avoid overwhelming the user; choose colors that complement each other while ensuring readability is not compromised.

Text-Only Design

Text-only design strips away images and illustrations to focus entirely on typography as the main visual element. This minimalistic approach relies on the power of words and fonts to make a statement, using large headings, creative layouts, and varied fonts to keep the design engaging.

Text-only portfolios can create a clean and modern look that emphasizes the content and message, making them well-suited for writers, copywriters, and content creators who want their words to take center stage. By playing with font sizes, weights, and styles, text-only designs can still achieve a dynamic and visually compelling effect without relying on imagery.

The text-only trend also offers greater flexibility for designers to experiment with spacing, alignment, and motion. For instance, animated text or interactive elements can add interest and guide the user through the site in an engaging way.

Neon Accents

Neon accents are making a comeback in portfolio site design, adding a futuristic and energetic feel to layouts. These bright, luminous colors can be used to highlight important elements such as buttons, headings, or featured projects, drawing the eye to key areas of the site.

To make the most of neon accents without overwhelming the design, use them sparingly to add pops of color that enhance the visual hierarchy. Incorporating subtle neon effects, such as glows, gradients, or outlines, can create a sense of depth and movement, making the site feel more dynamic.

Pairing neon accents with clean layouts and neutral colors can balance the boldness, ensuring the design remains professional while still making a visual impact. Neon accents can give portfolios a cutting-edge appeal that captures attention and keeps users engaged.

Creative Layouts

Creative layouts break away from traditional grid-based designs, offering more freedom and flexibility in the arrangement of content. By using asymmetrical layouts, overlapping elements, or unconventional scrolling effects, designers can create a unique and engaging user experience.

The key to successful creative layouts is maintaining a sense of balance while experimenting with the arrangement of elements. While the design may be unconventional, it should still guide the viewer’s eye naturally through the content, ensuring that important information is easily accessible.

Thoughtful use of whitespace, layering, and animation can add depth and visual interest without sacrificing usability. When executed well, creative layouts can transform a portfolio into a memorable and interactive experience that resonates with viewers.

3D Interactive

The 3D Interactive trend in portfolio site design brings depth and realism to web experiences by incorporating three-dimensional elements that users can engage with. This approach involves using 3D models, animations, and effects that respond to user interactions, such as hover states, clicks, or scrolling.

It creates a sense of immersion that makes the portfolio feel more dynamic and engaging, as visitors can explore the content in a more interactive way. This trend is especially impactful for portfolios in industries like digital art, game design, or 3D modeling, where showcasing technical skills and creativity through interactive elements can leave a lasting impression.

To successfully implement 3D interactive elements, you should balance realism with usability, ensuring that animations and effects enhance the user experience rather than detract from it. Strategic placement of 3D components can guide users through the portfolio in an intuitive manner, while subtle animations can be used to draw attention to key content without overwhelming the visitor.

Over-the-Top Design

While minimal portfolio styles are popular, over-the-top portfolio designs are beginning to trend. (Likely because they are so disruptive in a sea of black and white, minimal designs.)

This portfolio uses a lot of trending elements together and it works. There’s the big hero headline with a gradient color treatment, liquid animated effects, and funky type elements.

As you scroll, the entire portfolio website has an almost brutalist feel to it with slab font choices and a dark outline. Although the design has a bit of harshness to it, there’s reason to scroll and get into the design and learn more about the designer.

Layered Graphic Elements

Cool layered effects, especially those that include nifty CSS effects such as parallax scrolling or hints of animation can make for fun layers.

This portfolio technique is gaining popularity and provides a good opportunity for designers to play with certain effects before deploying them on a client project.

This one-page portfolio by Sophie Doukhopelnikoff uses transparencies and text elements in layers that create depth and visual interest. Having letters both behind and in front of images is rather stunning and draws you into the design. Sans serif typography lends an even more classic feel to the overall design.

Subtle Color Effects

You’re going to have to click through and hang out on this portfolio website for a few minutes to get the full effect of the design.

The simple “Hello There” first expands to fill the screen with other text elements that better explain the portfolio, then the background color softly changes every few seconds for a rainbow effect. It’s simple, subtle, and very beautiful.

This is a color effect that could have a lot of applications elsewhere and speaks to the creative nature of a portfolio website itself.

Super-Simple Aesthetic

It seems like there’s a trend in portfolio design where designers don’t lead with their work. Their websites are simple and visually interesting and then lead you into their project only after a first glance.

The simple design here is sleek and intriguing. It works equally well with dark or white backgrounds and simple typography and graphic elements.

Valentin Semes makes the most of the super-simple aesthetic with neat interactive divots – pay attention to the mouse hover – to keep you moving through the design so that you see elements of the portfolio.

Magazine-Style Layouts

Magazine-style layouts have long been popular for blogs but can also help show off a portfolio as this trend shows.

Each block can be used to highlight a different type of work or individual project in a way that gives each design room of its own.

Antoine Barres uses this format to show a variety of creative pieces in a way that makes it easy to see each design. The gray background blocks with the white grid have an incredibly classic style that gives each design even more room to shine.

Homepage Bios

There’s no rule that your bio has to be on the About page of your portfolio website. One of the strongest trends in portfolio design is to move that bio – or at least a short version of it – to the homepage.

It’s a great way to tell people exactly what you do from the start. There will be no guessing what your portfolio is about and what type of creative you are.

It’s a place where you can create a personal statement or even highlight various projects. Bill Chien’s portfolio does this beautifully with a movie-credits-style bio that scrolls on the homepage. His bio is simple, and to the point, showing his creative mindset.

Lots of Interactivity

Interactive portfolios are in.

Many of these portfolio designs are visually loud, packed with movement, color, and things to click or cool changing hover states. There’s an almost limitless opportunity to use effects and design techniques.

What’s neat about a highly interactive portfolio is that it provides a place to show off some supreme UX skills.

The challenge is that sometimes the designs can get just a wee bit overwhelming. Make sure to track user behavior and engagement and if you are losing visitors, it might be worth a chance. (It can also be a good test for deploying similar techniques in other projects.)

Unusual Design Patterns

Portfolios that test new design patterns are also trending. Moving traditional navigation elements, obscuring text, and even experimenting with animation states are all common.

This trend might be popular because it provides an opportunity for designers to have a little playground to test techniques and effects. What’s nice about it, is that this trend pushes our idea of what is and isn’t the right way to do something.

The example above uses a few visual trends and unusual patterns at the same time. There’s outline typography that’s partially obscured, an animated hover state for the color orb, and navigation that is on the vertical edges of the screen.

The portfolio trend makes you think about design norms and how you feel about them as you dive into the work.

Black and White

Black and white designs, often with a color accent, are huge right now.

The biggest contributing factor might be that black-and-white design patterns make it easy to see portfolio works, which are often in color. It gives the thing you want people to see greater attention when it does appear on the screen.

Paired with this black-and-white trend is another common factor. Portfolio pieces don’t appear on the homepage; users have to click through to find them.

Trendy Typography

You can never go wrong with amazing typography. Whether you are using a trending type element, such as the outlines above, or simply a beautiful typeface, this trend never gets old.

Strong typography skills will help your portfolio shine and help others understand the quality of your work. This trend shows why creating a portfolio that represents the strength of your skills is important.

Potential employers and clients will often get an impression of the kind of creative you are simply by looking at your portfolio website. Almost every designer would love to be thought of as someone with strong typography skills. Using trendy typography well definitely fits the bill.

High-Performance Effects

Because web designers, photographers, and other creatives are using their portfolios to show off what they can do, there’s a distinct shift to more high-performance designs. (Some of which are too much for mobile displays. Make sure you have an alternative gateway if you go this route.)

These high-performance designs are packed with nifty JavaScript, animation, and effects that are designed to wow users.

Victor Costa’s portfolio is a prime example of how to create a high-performance portfolio. It opens with an option for users – standard or high-performance. The portfolio is filled with interactive elements, fades and scroll actions, and animation. These techniques match the elements he references in his bio and is not only a showcase of past work but an indicator of what else he can do for clients.

Plenty of Space

Something that’s been popping up in more designs across the board is making its way into portfolio design as well – plenty of space between elements and objects.

This trend seems to have roots in ensuring that items are appropriately separated on mobile devices and have plenty of tap space, but the additional space can look great on desktop screens as well. (Granted, I’ve always been a fan of white space.)

Lotta Nieminen’s portfolio is a perfect example of this design in action. The super-deep header takes up more than a third of the screen while the vertical and horizontal space between portfolio images is super wide. Each element stands on its own and the exaggerated spacing gives each project room to stand on its own, which can be particularly nice for a portfolio design with the potential for so many different types of images.

Groovy UI

Pairing a minimally-styled design with stylish user interface effects can create quite a stunning portfolio. This combination of visual simplicity and complex interaction can delight users and keep them looking through different screens and portfolio projects.

Click through the example above to see how each portfolio project glides onto the screen with a cool ripple effect before it stops. The cursor shifts and shapes as well, denoting click elements to take users through each project in a way that’s more than just reading about how the design came together.

This is a portfolio you could spend hours with thanks to the groovy UI.

Large Typography

Strong typography and language can be the perfect introduction to your work (and portfolio). Most people probably know of Tobias van Schneider from his ventures as a designer or podcaster, but would you expect his portfolio home page to be mostly text?

Typography and text are some of the most frequently overlooked design elements when planning a project or portfolio. Most of us are so concerned with visuals or animation.

This example shows why so many designers are opting for portfolios that feature strong typography. It sets the right tone – you know what he does and what the site is about – before getting into the deeper visuals. (This option also highlights his strength for designs that feature a lot of text.)

Portfolios That Don’t Look Like Portfolios

One of the biggest trends in portfolio design is crafting a portfolio that looks like another type of website altogether.

Robin Mastromarino’s portfolio looks like a website for a bar or fashion designer or professional athlete, depending on which part of the slider you view first. It’s beautiful and simple and what’s most impressive is the room each project has to shine.

Subtle cues help users understand elements of the portfolio, such as small numerals above the headline, and the date below. Plus, the slide element encourages left-to-right scrolling with partial headlines from other projects.

The other things that are so nice about this portfolio style are that as a designer you don’t have to come up with something completely new to show off your work. With big “art” for projects, completed jobs are the focus, rather than creating something completely new. (How’s that for creating something you can update quickly?)

Split-Screen Patterns

Split-screen patterns have been trending for a while and more portfolios are using this design, even if they don’t use the functionality. It works because the pairing of elements helps drive users across the screen to take in everything in front of them.

Xavier Cusso uses a split-screen design with great parallax scrolling effects to move from project to project. The color-block screen design helps emphasize that the website is his creation, while the element in the middle is the portfolio project to examine. It puts some separation between the portfolio and project designs.

This is a nice way to handle big-name projects – note the graphic for Adidas Climaheat here – while maintaining your identity in the portfolio design. (Make sure to click through and visit individual projects here; the overall portfolio design is impressive.)

Minimalism-Inspired Design

The best thing about a minimalism-inspired portfolio is that it gives the design plenty of room to shine. The design of the actual portfolio becomes relatively invisible so that all the focus is on the elements that you want people to see.

Designer Shawn Park recently wrote about how he redesigns his portfolio every year for UX Collective – I highly recommend that you go read that article here – and the current design (above) shows an evolution of design trends in itself.

Park includes iterations of his portfolio design in the post, beginning in 2013, and you can see how design trends impacted his portfolio. You can also see how this fresh minimal style makes it easier to see his work today than in previous incarnations.

Oversized Homepage Headshots

Big headshots are a big deal, particularly with developers and interaction designers.

This portfolio trend might be popular because it’s harder to visually show this work: Do you highlight code?

The trick to making this portfolio design work is a strong image. It needs to be more than a headshot; it needs to have a moodiness to it. Then pair it with strong typography to make it obvious that this is a portfolio website and what you do. Keep all of that information above the scroll for the best chance of keeping visitors moving through the design.

And a few nifty effects can’t hurt either.

Modular Grids

One portfolio design trend that never seems to fade is the use of modular grids to show off projects. This is a great – and functional – option because you can “float” images of different projects on a single canvas.

Kimi Lewis does something a little bit different with her portfolio, above. Rather than lots of small blocks to show portfolio projects, this design goes big. It mixes and matches squarer and long horizontal images in an oversized grid.

Users get a good feel for each project right from the start. Add the oversized grid images to some exaggerated spacing between elements and this portfolio might be one of the easiest to digest that I’ve seen in a while. There’s also a nifty hover animation on each image with the client name and project type to provide extra information before you click through.

Color Overlays

One of the most challenging things about creating a portfolio is the homepage. How do you preview work or project sections in a way that will entice users to actually click through?

The answer might be to partially obscure the work. Using interesting color overlays on preview image links can be a visually engaging way to encourage clicks to individual projects. It’ll keep your homepage cleaner with a consistent look and style for different sections of the website, ensure that one page isn’t too heavy and slow to load, and provides an opportunity to highlight something about a project before the click.

Heather Shaw’s portfolio, above, works because each project is so different, but the color overlays give the homepage a connected feel. The user also knows what kind of project they are about to view thanks to labels with client names and project types right there. This is a highly navigable and easy-to-understand format that appeals visually.

Streamlined Project Showcase

And then there’s the opposite end of the spectrum – portfolios that have a more streamlined look and feel. There can be a benefit to only showing a handful of projects.
It ensures that users only see what you want them to focus on and not get distracted.

Stefanie Bruckler also uses a module grid format but with fewer items in a more contained space. Plus, it’s all below the main scroll which features a minimal business card-style design.

It has a look that’s polished and classy, setting a distinct tone for the work of this designer.

Conclusion

Still not quite ready to redesign your portfolio? While it is a creative project, this is also an investment in your business, whether you work for a company or as a freelancer.

Potential clients are looking for you before you even know they exist. A modern, trendy portfolio with your best projects can make a strong first impression.

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They’re out! Like many of you, I look forward to these coming out each year. I don’t put much stock in surveys but they can be insightful and give a snapshot of the CSS zeitgeist. There are a few little nuggets in this year’s results that I find interesting. But before I get there, you’ll want to also check out what others have already written about it.

• Josh Comeau digested his takeaways in a recent newsletter.

Oh, I guess that’s it — at least it’s the most formal write-up I’ve seen. There’s a little summary by Ahmad Shadeed at the end of the survey that generally rounds things up. I’ll drop in more links as I find ’em.

In no particular order…

Demographics

Josh has way more poignant thoughts on this than I do. He rightfully calls out discrepancies in gender pay and regional pay, where men are way more compensated than women (a nonsensical and frustratingly never-ending trend) and the United States boasts more $100,000 salaries than anywhere else. The countries with the highest salaries were also the most represented in survey responses, so perhaps the results are no surprise. We’re essentially looking at a snapshot of what it’s like to be a rich, white male developer in the West.

Besides pay, my eye caught the Age Group demographics. As an aging front-ender, I often wonder what we all do when we finally get to retirement age. I officially dropped from the most represented age group (30-39, 42%) a few years ago into the third most represented tier (40-49, 21%). Long gone are my days being with the cool kids (20-29, 27%).

And if the distribution is true to life, I’m riding fast into my sunset years and will be only slightly more represented than those getting into the profession. I don’t know if anyone else feels similarly anxious about aging in this industry — but if you’re one of the 484 folks who identify with the 50+ age group, I’d love to talk with you.

Before we plow ahead, I think it’s worth calling out how relatively “new” most people are to front-end development.

Wow! Forty-freaking-four percent of respondents have less than 10 years of experience. Yes, 10 years is a high threshold, but we’re still talking about a profession that popped up in recent memory.

For perspective, someone developing for 10 years came to the field around 2014. That’s just when we were getting Flexbox, and several years after the big bang of CSS 3 and HTML 5. That’s just under half of developers who never had to deal with the headaches of table layouts, clearfix hacks, image sprites, spacer images, and rasterized rounded corners. Ethan Marcotte’s seminal article on “Responsive Web Design” predates these folks by a whopping four years!

That’s just wild. And exciting. I’m a firm believer in the next generation of front-enders but always hope that they learn from our past mistakes and become masters at the basics.

Features

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this section. When there are so many CSS features, how do you determine which are most widely used? How do you pare it down to just 50 features? Like, are filter effects really the most widely used CSS feature? So many questions, but the results are always interesting nonetheless.

What I find most interesting are the underused features. For example, hanging-punctuation comes in dead last in usage (1.57%) but is the feature that most developers (52%) have on their reading list. (If you need some reading material on it, Chris initially published the Almanac entry for hanging-punctuation back in 2013.)

I also see Anchor Positioning at the end of the long tail with reported usage at 4.8%. That’ll go up for sure now that we have at least one supporting browser engine (Chromium) but also given all of the tutorials that have sprung up in the past few months. Yes, we’ve contributed to that noise… but it’s good noise! I think Juan published what might be the most thorough and thoughtful guide on the topic yet.

I’m excited to see Cascade Layers falling smack dab in the middle of the pack at a fairly robust 18.7%. Cascade Layers are super approachable and elegantly designed that I have trouble believing anybody these days when they say that the CSS Cascade is difficult to manage. And even though @scope is currently low on the list (4.8%, same as Anchor Positioning), I’d bet the crumpled gum wrapper in my pocket that the overall sentiment of working with the Cascade will improve dramatically. We’ll still see “CSS is Awesome” memes galore, but they’ll be more like old familiar dad jokes in good time.

(Aside: Did you see the proposed designs for a new CSS logo? You can vote on them as of yesterday, but earlier versions played off the “CSS is Awesome” mean quite beautifully.)

Interestingly enough, viewport units come in at Number 11 with 44.2% usage… which lands them at Number 2 for most experience that developers have with CSS layout. Does that suggest that layout features are less widely used than CSS filters? Again, so many questions.

Frameworks

How many of you were surprised that Tailwind blew past Bootstrap as Top Dog framework in CSS Land? Nobody, right?

More interesting to me is that “No CSS framework” clocks in at Number 13 out of 21 list frameworks. Sure, its 46 votes are dwarfed by the 138 for Material UI at Number 10… but the fact that we’re seeing “no framework” as a ranking option at all would have been unimaginable just three years ago.

The same goes for CSS pre/post-processing. Sass (67%) and PostCSS (38%) are the power players, but “None” comes in third at 19%, ahead of Less, Stylus, and Lightning CSS.

It’s a real testament to the great work the CSSWG is doing to make CSS better every day. We don’t thank the CSSWG enough — thank you, team! Y’all are heroes around these parts.

CSS Usage

Josh already has a good take on the fact that only 67% of folks say they test their work on mobile phones. It should be at least tied with the 99% who test on desktops, right? Right?! Who knows, maybe some responses consider things like “Responsive Design Mode” desktop features to be the equivalent of testing on real mobile devices. I find it hard to believe that only 67% of us test mobile.

Oh, and The Great Divide is still alive and well if the results are true and 53% write more JavsScript than CSS in their day-to-day.

Missing CSS Features

This is always a fun topic to ponder. Some of the most-wanted CSS features have been lurking around 10+ years. But let’s look at the top three form this year’s survey:

• Mixins
• Conditional Logic
• Masonry

We’re in luck team! There’s movement on all three of those fronts:

• A new CSS Functions and Mixins Module draft was published in late June after the CSSWG resolved to adopt the proposal back in February. (Read our notes.)
• The CSS Working Group (CSSWG) resolved to add an if() conditional to the CSS Values Module Level 5 specification. (Read our notes.)
• There are competing proposals for how to forge ahead with a CSS-y approach to masonry layouts. One is based on the CSS Grid Layout Module Level 3 draft specifcation and the other is a fresh new module dedicated to masonry. Apple has planted its flag. So has Chrome. Let the cage-match continue!

Resources

This is where I get to toot our own horn a bit because CSS-Tricks continues to place first among y’all when it comes to the blogs you follow for CSS happenings.

I’m also stoked to see Smashing Magazine right there as well. It was fifth in 2023 and I’d like to think that rise is due to me joining the team last year. Correlation implies causation, amirite?

But look at Kevin Powell and Josh in the Top 10. That’s just awesome. It speaks volumes about their teaching talents and the hard work they put into “helping people fall in love with CSS” as Kevin might say it. I was able to help Kevin with a couple of his videos last year (here’s one) and can tell you the guy cares a heckuva lot about making CSS approachable and fun.

Honestly, the rankings are not what we live for. Now that I’ve been given a second wind to work on CSS-Tricks, all I want is to publish things that are valuable to your everyday work as front-enders. That’s traditionally happened as a stream of daily articles but is shifting to more tutorials and resources, whether it’s guides (we’ve published four new ones this year), taking notes on interesting developments, spotlighting good work with links, or expanding the ol’ Almanac to account for things like functions, at-rules, and pseudos (we have lots of work to do).

My 2024 Pick

No one asked my opinion but I’ll say it anyway: Personal blogging. I’m seeing more of us in the front-end community getting back behind the keyboards of their personal websites and I’ve never been subscribed to more RSS feeds than I am today. Some started blogging as a “worry stone” during the 2020 lockdown. Some abandoned socials when Twitter X imploded. Some got way into the IndieWeb. Webrings and guestbooks are even gaining new life. Sure, it can be tough keeping up, but what a good problem to have! Let’s make RSS king once and for all.

That’s a wrap!

Seriously, a huge thanks to Sacha Greif and the entire Devographics team for the commitment to putting this survey together every year. It’s always fun. And the visualizations are always to die for.

State of CSS 2024 Results originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Whether you’re designing a simple website or building complex web applications, security needs to be a priority from day one. Cyber threats like data breaches, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injections are becoming more sophisticated, targeting every weakness they can find. 

Fortunately, various security tools exist to help developers and designers safeguard their projects and ensure users enjoy a seamless and secure experience. This article will explore essential security tools that should be part of every developer’s toolkit.

1. OWASP ZAP

OWASP ZAP is an open-source tool that identifies vulnerabilities in web applications. It scans for security weaknesses like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and authentication flaws. OWASP ZAP offers automated and manual testing options, making it useful throughout the development lifecycle. Developers can also integrate it into their CI/CD pipelines, catching vulnerabilities before they reach production.

By using OWASP ZAP early and often, development teams can adopt a proactive approach to security, preventing common attacks from slipping through the cracks. It also provides detailed reports that guide developers on mitigating issues, ensuring every code change aligns with security best practices.

2. Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a powerful tool designed for web application security testing. It provides developers with tools to inspect HTTP requests, manipulate data, and simulate attacks. Burp Suite’s automated scanner detects vulnerabilities, while its manual tools allow security experts to perform deep-dive testing on complex issues.

The platform’s modular nature makes it easy to customize testing processes. With features like Intruder for brute-force testing and Repeater for request manipulation, Burp Suite offers flexibility for both automated and manual testing. These capabilities help developers address logic flaws, broken authentication, and access control issues that automated scanners might miss.

3. VPN

Remote work becoming the new norm, VPNs are essential for developers who need secure access to servers, platforms, and databases from various locations. A reliable VPN ensures that online activities remain encrypted and private, helping prevent data leaks and unauthorized access. By using industry-standard AES-256 encryption and specialized protocols, VPNs provide a secure option for accessing sensitive environments—even on public Wi-Fi.

VPNs can also mask IP addresses, allowing developers to test web applications from multiple regions without compromising security. With a global network of servers, VPNs offer access to geo-restricted content and tools, enabling seamless and secure workflows regardless of the developer’s location. For example, services like AstrillVPN offer features tailored for developers, enhancing both privacy and functionality across diverse use cases.

4. Nmap

Nmap is a well-known tool for network discovery and auditing. It helps developers identify open ports, running services, and network misconfigurations that attackers could exploit. Nmap’s comprehensive scans offer insights into the entire network infrastructure, making it easier for developers to secure their systems proactively.

Using Nmap during the early stages of development ensures that potential entry points are identified and secured before launch. It’s also a valuable tool for periodic security audits, keeping infrastructure resilient against evolving threats.

5. Acunetix

Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner that fits perfectly into DevOps workflows and offers continuous security monitoring. It automates the detection of vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and broken authentication and generates detailed reports for quick remediation. Acunetix supports CI/CD integration, making it a great fit for teams practicing agile development.

This tool stands out for its speed and accuracy, which helps developers keep up with tight release schedules while ensuring robust security. Its seamless integration into development environments allows teams to detect issues without slowing their workflow.

6. Wireshark

Wireshark is a go-to tool for analyzing network traffic and troubleshooting security issues. It provides deep insights into how data travels between a web application and its backend systems, enabling developers to detect bottlenecks, data leaks, or malicious activities. Wireshark captures and inspects data packets in real-time, allowing teams to identify and respond to anomalies quickly.

Wireshark ensures that communication channels remain secure and efficient for developers working on complex web applications. Its robust filtering options allow users to pinpoint specific traffic flows, making it an indispensable tool for network analysis and security debugging.

7. Metasploit

Metasploit enables developers to adopt an attacker’s mindset by simulating real-world cyberattacks. It provides a library of known exploits that can be used to test applications and systems, helping teams assess how well their defenses will perform under pressure. Metasploit’s penetration testing framework is essential for anyone serious about security, as it gives developers a clear understanding of their application’s vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.

8. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)

WAFs act like gatekeepers, monitoring incoming traffic and blocking anything that looks suspicious. By filtering HTTP requests, tools like AWS WAF protect against the most common web attacks, including SQL injection and XSS. For developers managing high-traffic websites or online platforms, WAFs ensure that malicious traffic never reaches the application’s backend, maintaining performance while keeping attackers at bay.

9. Secure Coding Practices and Code Reviews

Secure coding practices are the foundation of any secure web application. Developers should sanitize inputs, use parameterized queries to prevent SQL injection and apply access control mechanisms to restrict unauthorized access. Embedding security principles into the codebase from the start ensures that vulnerabilities are minimized.

Regular code reviews, both automated and manual, are essential to catch security flaws early. Developers can also use Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools to identify vulnerabilities during development, keeping code secure throughout the project lifecycle.

10. GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a crucial tool for developers working with code repositories. It continuously scans repositories for exposed credentials, such as API keys, tokens, or passwords that may have been accidentally committed. With GitGuardian, developers can avoid the risk of attackers exploiting leaked secrets, ensuring that sensitive information stays protected. It also provides real-time alerts, enabling teams to act when potential exposures are detected immediately.

11. Snyk: Manage Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Snyk specializes in finding vulnerabilities within open-source libraries and dependencies. Modern web applications rely heavily on open-source components, so Snyk helps developers identify and patch vulnerabilities early. It integrates with DevOps tools, offering continuous monitoring to ensure dependencies remain secure throughout development cycles.

12. Security Audits and Continuous Testing: Stay One Step Ahead

Regular security audits and continuous testing play a crucial role in safeguarding digital environments. By incorporating automated testing tools alongside thorough manual audits conducted at regular intervals, organizations can swiftly identify and address emerging risks. This proactive strategy not only aids teams in adhering to established security standards but also serves as a preventive measure, ensuring that minor security concerns do not escalate into significant incidents that could jeopardize sensitive information or disrupt operations. Such diligence fosters a culture of security awareness and resilience within the organization.

13. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Two-factor authentication is a simple yet powerful way to protect accounts from unauthorized access. By requiring users to provide two verification forms, like a password and a code sent to their phone, 2FA ensures that attackers can’t gain access even if passwords are compromised. Developers should implement 2FA wherever sensitive data or user information is involved, adding an extra layer of security to the application.

14. Regular Security Audits and Continuous Testing

Security isn’t something you set up once and forget, it requires continuous monitoring and improvement. Regular security audits help identify vulnerabilities introduced through updates or changes in the infrastructure. Continuous testing ensures that applications remain compliant with security standards and are ready to face new threats as they emerge. With automated scanning tools and periodic manual testing, developers can avoid potential risks and maintain a strong security posture.

In today’s digital landscape, web security is essential for developers and designers building everything from simple sites to complex applications. This article explores top security tools, including OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, and GitGuardian, that help identify vulnerabilities, secure sensitive data, and protect against cyber threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. By integrating these tools into development workflows, teams can ensure a seamless, secure user experience and maintain robust defenses against evolving threats. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting, these tools provide the foundation for building safer, more resilient web applications.

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Today, we bring you a unique collection of calligraphy brushes for Procreate and Photoshop that are ideal for everything from wedding invitations and branding to social media graphics.

Whether you’re a professional calligrapher, a designer, or someone who simply loves creating beautiful lettering, these brushes offer the perfect blend of traditional calligraphy charm and modern digital convenience.

With the right brush, you can easily craft stunning hand-lettered artwork, logos, invitations, and more, all from your iPad or computer.

This collection features a variety of calligraphy brushes designed to mimic real brushstrokes, ink, and pen textures, giving you the freedom to explore different styles—from classic script to modern lettering.

Each brush set is tailored for a seamless digital experience, allowing for precise control and smooth flow that feels just like working with traditional tools. Have a look.

Procreate Calligraphy Brushes

Twentyletter – Procreate Calligraphy Brushes

This Procreate calligraphy brush pack offers a range of 20 smooth, easy-to-use brushes ideal for crafting calligraphy lettering for logos, illustrations, and more. Convenient for users of all skill levels, these brushes can be seamlessly imported into your Procreate brushes panel via Files App, transforming your iPad into a versatile digital art studio.

Procreate Monoline Calligraphy Brushes

This is a set of over 15 brushes specially crafted for the Procreate app. They offer a wide range of colors and neat effects like neon and rainbow in each stroke, making it the perfect tool for design, lettering, digital art, logo creation, and social media. These user-friendly brushes are compatible with Procreate 5X and earlier versions.

40+ Procreate Calligraphy & Lettering Brushes

This Procreate calligraphy brush pack provides a diverse variety of styles and textures for use in the iOS app, including lettering, calligraphy, ribbon, shawl, Japanese, modern, monoline, signature, spray, fire, and shadow brushes. It is important to note that these brushes are not compatible with Photoshop or other applications.

Firstype – Procreate Lettering Brushes

Firstype Procreate calligraphy brush set is specifically designed for beginners using the iOS app, Procreate, and contains over 20 different types of brushes including Calligraphy, Watercolour, and Blackletter. They are great for expanding your skills in lettering, calligraphy, and typography design. The package also includes six guides for lettering.

10 Procreate Lettering & Calligraphy Brushes

Another versatile set of Procreate calligraphy brushes perfect for digital lettering artisans. From refined calligraphy to playful lettering, these Procreate brushes provide a broad spectrum of possibilities, allowing your creative expression to flow effortlessly.

Procreate Blackletter Calligraphy Brush

This is a creative Procreate calligraphy brush set that has been carefully crafted for lettering artists seeking to merge the analog and digital realms.  The set comes with six uniquely designed brushes, enabling you to create vivid lettering designs, posters, flyers, and more with remarkable authenticity.

10 Lettering Brushes for Procreate

A useful Procreate brush pack for anyone interested in calligraphy. With ten distinct, smooth brushes, you can transform your iPad into a canvas for beautiful lettering. This means you get to enjoy the freedom and versatility of Procreate Brushes while achieving stunning lettering effects easily and efficiently.

Procreate Chalk Lettering Brushes

This is a unique set of Procreate calligraphy brushes designed to replicate the distinct texture of chalk strokes. They offer a wide variety of chalk brushes including coarse chalk, wet chalk, dusty chalk, and chalk eraser. Ideal for lettering and blackboard-like illustrations, they’re perfect for creating educational content, cafe menus, decorations, or lettering artwork.

Procreate Blackletter Calligraphy Brush 2

A fantastic Procreate calligraphy brush set for digital lettering enthusiasts. This versatile brush set enables users to effortlessly create analog-style artwork digitally using iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Whether it’s calligraphic designs, posters, or flyers, these handmade, high-quality brushes offer a limitless scope for your creative expression.

Procreate Lettering Brushes

This is a diverse set of brushes exclusively designed for Procreate. Their simplicity makes them a great choice for both beginners and professionals. Excellent for various tasks such as font creation, lettering, logo development, and even designing stationery, the pack includes textured, monoline, calligraphy, and signature brushes. Compatible with Procreate 5 and prior versions, they are ready for you to enjoy.

Dry Marker Brushes for Procreate

An exceptionally curated set of 15 high-quality, original brushes designed for diverse styles and effects. Ideal for crafting quotes, lettering, fonts, and graphics, these brushes also come with a bonus Procreate-specific calligraphy brush. The set, which requires an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and Procreate App to use, is designed solely for Procreate.

Photoshop Calligraphy Brushes

45 Calligraphy Photoshop Stamp Brushes

This calligraphy brush pack offers a unique touch to any digital project. They’re compatible with all versions of Photoshop and feature a high resolution of 2500 pixels. These versatile brushes are not simply tools, but creative assets that can bring a special charm to photos, print templates, and social media content.

Inktober – 44 Photoshop Brushes Pack

The Inktober Photoshop brushes pack is an eclectic set of ink brushes designed for digital artists. Inside you’ll find a diverse range of brushes perfect for line art, calligraphy, painting, as well as specialized effects like spray, wet edge, and grunge. It imitates numerous painting styles, from pen drawings to Chinese art, and includes 15 bonus textures.

50 Calligraphy Photoshop Stamp Brushes

A versatile calligraphy brush pack perfect for a variety of projects. These high-resolution brushes (2500 pixels) can be used as clipart or decorative elements in print and web-based designs, as well as on posters and cards. Included is a selection of 50 unique brushes in .ABR format and 50 isolated .PNG images.

45 Underline Photoshop Stamp Brushes

Enhance your projects with this underline Photoshop stamp brush pack, compatible with all versions of Photoshop from CS2 to CC. With a generous size of 2500 pixels, these high-resolution brushes can be a game changer in adding ornamental value to photos, print templates, and even social media content.

Illustrator Calligraphy Brushes

Illustrator Hand Lettering Brushes

This Illustrator brush pack is perfect for those who find hand-drawn typography a tad challenging. These tools are excellent for both calligraphy and drawing. Each brush has a unique texture which mimics real-life brush strokes and can be adjusted in terms of color, thickness, and length. The set includes a whopping 74 brushes, each grouped and named for easy usage.

Japan ProBrush – Illustrator Brush Pack

Japan ProBrush is an Illustrator brush pack ideal for creating Japanese-style calligraphy. This pack, compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS3 and above, features 39 high-quality digital, ink, and Asian calligraphy brushes. Included in the pack are 14 ProBrush Japan Brush, 14 ProBrush Japan Digital, and 11 ProBrush Watercolor REALISTIC brushes, providing professional designers, illustrators, and artists with versatility and precision in their digital creations.

Free Calligraphy Brushes

Free Valentine Calligraphy Photoshop Brushes

This is a collection of creative calligraphy-style stamp brushes you can use in Photoshop to craft romantic typography designs for Valentine’s Day greeting cards and various other designs. The brushes are free to download.

55 Free Calligraphy Photoshop Brushes

This free calligraphy brush pack for Photoshop includes 55 different brushes for crafting unique calligraphy lettering for your design projects. It’s free to use with commercial projects.

Free Unique Calligraphy Brushes for Photoshop

A collection of 15 unique calligraphy brushes for Photoshop. This bundle includes multiple styles of calligraphy designs to make your lettering designs look more authentic.

Free 26 Underline Tail PS Brushes

This is a collection of underline and tail brushes for Photoshop. You can use these to add a creative and decorative touch to your graphic designs. There are 26 different brushes included in this pack.

Free 20 Calligraphy Alphabet Set PS Brushes

This is a free calligraphy brush pack for Photoshop that includes the alphabet in calligraphy style. You can use this brush pack to craft beautiful calligraphy lettering without any prior experience in calligraphy art.

Every generation is different in very unique ways, with different habits, views, standards, and expectations. So when designing for Gen Z, what do we need to keep in mind? Let’s take a closer look at Gen Z, how they use tech, and why it might be a good idea to ignore common design advice and do the opposite of what is usually recommended instead.

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When we talk about Generation Z, we usually refer to people born between 1995 and 2010. Of course making universal statements about a cohort where some are adults in their late 20s and others are school students is at best ineffective and at worst wrong — yet there are some attributes that stand out compared to earlier generations.

Gen Z is the most diverse generation in terms of race, ethnicity, and identity. Research shows that young people today are caring and proactive, and far from being “slow, passive and mindless” as they are often described. In fact, they are willing to take a stand and break their habits if they deeply believe in a specific purpose and goal. Surely there are many distractions along that way, but the belief in fairness and sense of purpose has enormous value.

Their values reflect that: accessibility, inclusivity, sustainability, and work/life balance are top priorities for Gen Zs, and they value experiences, principles, and social stand over possessions.

What Gen Z Deeply Cares About

Gen Z grew up with technology, so unsurprisingly digital experiences are very familiar and understood by them. On the other hand, digital experiences are often suboptimal at best — slow, inaccessible, confusing, and frustrating. Plus, the web is filled with exaggerations and generic but fluffy statements. So it’s not a big revelation that Gen Zs are highly skeptical of brands and advertising by default (rightfully so!), and rely almost exclusively on social circles, influencers, and peers as main research channels.

They might sometimes struggle to spot what’s real and what’s not, but they are highly selective about their sources. They are always connected and used to following events live as they unfold, so unsurprisingly, Gen Z tends to have little patience.

And sure enough, Gen Z loves short-form content, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to a short attention span. Attention span is context-dependent, as documentaries and literature are among Gen Z’s favorites.

Most design advice on Gen Z focuses on producing “short form, snackable, bite-sized” content. That content is optimized for very short attention spans, TikTok-alike content consumption, and simplified to the core messaging. I would strongly encourage us to do the opposite.

We shouldn’t discount Gen Z as a generation with poor attention spans and urgent needs for instant gratification. Gen Zs have very strong beliefs and values, but they are also inherently curious and want to reshape the world. We can tell a damn good story. Captivate and engage. Make people think. Many Gen Zs are highly ambitious and motivated, and they want to be challenged and to succeed. So let’s support that. And to do that, we need to remain genuine and authentic.

Remain Genuine And Authentic

As Michelle Winchester noted, Gen Zs have very diverse perspectives and opinions, and they possess a discerning ability to detect disingenuous content. That’s also where mistrust towards AI comes into play, along with AI fatigue. As Nilay Patel mentioned on Ezra Klein Show, today when somebody says that something is “AI-generated”, usually it’s not a praise, but rather a testament how poor and untrustworthy it actually is.

Gen Z expects better. Hence brands that value sincerity, honesty, and authenticity are perceived as more trustworthy compared to brands that don’t have an opinion, don’t take a stand, don’t act for their beliefs and principles. For example, the “Keep Beauty Real” campaign by Dove (shown below) showcases the value of genuine human beauty, which is so often missed and so often exaggerated to extremes by AI.

Gareth Ford Williams has put together a visual language of closed captions and has kindly provided a PDF cheatsheet that is commonly used by professional captioners. There are some generally established rules about captioning, and here are some that I found quite useful when working on captioning for my own video course:

• Divide your sentences into two relatively equal parts like a pyramid (40ch per line for the top line, a bit less for the bottom line);
• Always keep an average of 20 to 30 characters per second;
• A sequence should only last between 1 and 8 seconds;
• Always keep a person’s name or title together;
• Do not break a line after conjunction;
• Consider aligning multi-lined captions to the left.

On YouTube, users can select a font used for subtitles and choose between monospaced and proportional serif and sans-serif, casual, cursive, and small-caps. But perhaps, in addition to stylistic details, we could provide a careful selection of fonts to help audiences with different needs. This could include a dyslexic font or a hyper-legible font, for example.

Additionally, we could display presets for various high contrast options for subtitles. This gives users a faster selection, requiring less effort to configure just the right combination of colors and transparency. Still, it would be useful to provide more sophisticated options just in case users need them.

Support Intrinsic Motivation

On the other hand, in times of instant gratification with likes, reposts, and leaderboards, people often learn that a feeling of achievement comes from extrinsic signals, like reach or attention from other people. The more important it is to support intrinsic motivation.

As Paula Gomes noted, intrinsic motivation is characterized by engaging in behaviors just for their own sake. People do something because they enjoy it. It is when they care deeply for an activity and enjoy it without needing any external rewards or pressure to do it.

Typically this requires 3 components:

• Competence involves the need to feel capable of achieving a desired outcome.
• Autonomy is about the need to feel in control of your own actions, behaviors, and goals.
• Relatedness reflects the need to feel a sense of belonging and attachment to other people.

In practical terms, that means setting people up for success. Preparing the knowledge and documents and skills they need ahead of time. Building knowledge up without necessarily rewarding them with points. It also means allowing people to have a strong sense of ownership of the decisions and the work they are doing. And adding collaborative goals that would require cooperation with team members and colleagues.

Encourage Critical Thinking

The younger people are, the more difficult it is to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t. Whenever possible, show sources or at least explain where to find specific details that back up claims that you are making. Encourage people to make up their mind, and design content to support that — with scientific papers, trustworthy reviews, vetted feedback, and diverse opinions.

And: you don’t have to shy away from technical details. Don’t make them mandatory to read and understand, but make them accessible and available in case readers or viewers are interested.

In times where there is so much fake, exaggerated, dishonest, and AI-generated content, it might be just enough to be perceived as authentic, trustworthy, and attention-worthy by the highly selective and very demanding Gen Z.

I keep repeating myself like a broken record, but better accessibility is better for everyone. As you hopefully have noticed, many attributes and expectations that we see in Gen Z are beneficial for all other generations, too. It’s just good, honest, authentic design. And that’s the very heart of good UX.

What I haven’t mentioned is that Gen Z genuinely appreciates feedback and values platforms that listen to their opinions and make changes based on their feedback. So the best thing we can do, as designers, is to actively involve Gen Z in the design process. Designing with them, rather than designing for them.

And, most importantly: with Gen Z, perhaps for the first time ever, inclusion and accessibility is becoming a default expectation for all digital products. With it comes the sense of fairness, diversity, and respect. And, personally, I strongly believe that it’s a great thing — and a testament how remarkable Gen Zs actually are.

• Large parts of Gen Z aren’t mobile-first, but mobile-only.
• To some, the main search engine is YouTube, not Google.
• Some don’t know and have never heard of Internet Explorer.
• Trust only verified customer reviews, influencers, friends.
• Used to follow events live as they unfold → little patience.
• Sustainability, reuse, work/life balance are top priorities.
• Prefer social login as the fastest authentication method.
• Typically ignore or close cookie banners, without consent.
• Rely on social proof, honest reviews/photos, authenticity.
• Most likely generation to provide a referral to a product.
• Typically turn on subtitles for videos by default.

• Designing for Gen Z, by Designlab
• Designing For Gen Z (Case Study), by Michelle Winchester
• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation, by Paula Gomes
• Shopping Habits For Gen Z, by Sara Karlovitch
• 10 Gen Z Insights To Improve Your CX, by Telus
• Millennials vs. Gen Z Expectations, by Zendesk

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Retouching and enhancing portrait photos is a time-consuming task, and starting from scratch with every photo can be frustrating. Using a portrait Photoshop Action can save time, and give you a beautiful result with a few clicks. Let’s dive into some of the best portrait Photoshop Actions available today.

These Photoshop Actions help you save time and improve your workflow when editing a portrait photo. You can use them to instantly retouch photos, add makeup, enhance colors, add effects, adjust toning, and much more with just a single click.

Say hello to a faster, simpler workflow (and some impressive end results!). And if you’re looking for more advice and guidance on using these, our Photoshop Actions feature is a great place to start.

We’re also sharing our tips for editing portrait photos to help give you a head start.

Top Pick

Skin Retouching Photoshop Actions

Skin retouching is a complicated process. You can’t get that job done with just one Photoshop action. Which is why this pack comes bundled up with 34 retouching Photoshop actions.

It includes PS actions for everything from airbrushing to skin toning, enhancing lips, teeth whitening, and much more.

Why This Is A Top Pick

This complete bundle is a must-have for portrait photo editors as it’ll drastically improve your workflow of enhancing photos and all levels of skin retouching with simple, one-click Photoshop actions.

Shine Ring Light Effect Photo Overlays

This is a distinct set of 15 high-resolution gold ring light overlays designed to add flawless shine and bokeh effects to your photos. Ideal for maternity portraits, holiday snaps, and more, these overlays are compatible with any software that supports layering, including Photoshop and Canva.

Ink Blur Paper Texture Photo Effect

Ink Blur is a versatile Photoshop portrait effect perfect for graphic designers, photographers, and digital artists. It elevates your photos with a unique paper texture effect adding a unique aesthetic. This high-resolution layered PSD file, requiring nothing more than Photoshop CS6 or higher, allows for easy customization on its smart object layers.

Cartoon Halftone Portrait Photoshop Action

A creative cartoon-style halftone portrait effect for Photoshop. It allows you to apply impressive effects to your photographs with just one click. Ideal for Photoshop CC and higher, it let’s you easily customize the effect to match different types of photos.

Grain Film Photo Effect PSD

An innovative Photoshop template that transforms your portrait photos with a vivid and classic vintage look. This PSD template excellently incorporates grain film effects into your photos. It caters to diverse shots, be it fashion, lifestyle, blogging, or moody product images.

Light Leaks Effect for Portraits

This is a versatile Photoshop effect meant to give images a distinctive look to your photos. It’s great for injecting energy and glamour into photos, with realistic-looking light leak effects. The template is especially effective on photos with a resolution of 1000px to 3000px and works beautifully on a variety of photo types, from fashion to blogging.

Old Memories Photo Effect PSD

This is a versatile Photoshop template designed to give your photos a vintage effect. Ideal for shots ranging from 1000 px – 3000 px resolution, this effect can be easily customized as well. It’s perfect for giving your graphic designs and photos a classic and old-school look and feel.

Prism Focus Photo Effect for Photoshop

The prism focus PSD effect enhances your photos with an energetic prism focus effect. This versatile feature transforms your images into a unique effect that’s perfect for fashion, lifestyle, blogging, and product photography. The effect is best used on photos between 1000 px and 3000 px.

Ghost Glitch Photo Effect PSD Template

This is a dynamic Photoshop template intended to transform photos with a ghost-like glitching effect. It’s versatile, effective for various photos ranging from fashion to moody product shots. For optimal results, use with photos of 1000 px – 3000 px resolution.

HDR Portrait Photo Effect PSD

A dynamic Photoshop template designed to convert your pictures into vibrant, HDR photographs. It allows you to easily add an HDR-like look to your portrait to give a more professional look and feel. For best results, apply it to photos between 1000 to 3000 px resolution.

Hotspot Remover AI Photoshop Action

This is a handy tool for photo editing and retouching. Using AI, it quickly identifies and removes any bright spots or glare from your photos, offering flawless results. Ideal for photographers and designers, it enhances the quality and speed of your work process. The effect requires the ‘Generative Fill’ feature in Adobe Photoshop versions CC 2023 and later.

Happies – Bright Portrait Photoshop Action

This collection of Photoshop actions allows you to transform your ordinary portrait photos with a bright and vibrant look. There are 10 different PS actions in this bundle especially optimized to enhance the exposure and colors of your photos with just a single click.

Fuji – Vintage Photoshop Action for Portraits

This pack also comes with high-quality Photoshop actions especially made for portrait photos. It has 10 actions that are compatible with Photoshop CS3 and higher. These effects have subtle Fuji film-style vintage looks that are ideal for classic portraits and selfies.

Movietic Aesthetic Portrait Photoshop Action

If you want to add a vintage movie-style look to your photos, this Photoshop actions bundle is for you. It instantly adds a color filter that turns your photos into stills from a vintage film. These are great for Instagram selfies as well.

Republic Aesthetic Photoshop Action for Portraits

Add a classic aesthetic look to your selfies and portrait photos with this collection of Photoshop actions. It includes 10 actions with subtle effects that will make your photos look more professional and creative.

Film Wash – Free Portrait Photoshop Action

This free Photoshop action does exactly what its name suggests. It adds a nostalgic look to your portrait photos with a washed-out film effect. The action is most suitable for outdoor photos.

Warmer – Photoshop Action for Portraits

This Photoshop action features a very bright and warm effect that completely changes the way your portraits look. It seems to work surprisingly well for outdoor portraits, especially for sunny and beach-themed photos.

Color Glitch PSD Photo Effect for Portraits

This Photoshop photo effect allows you to easily add a glitching effect to your portrait photos. It comes as a PSD template with smart object layers for easy editing. This template will help you craft amazing effects for graphic design projects.

Nostalgic – Portrait Photoshop Action

The amazing vintage-style effect features in this Photoshop action are designed by a group of professional photographers. It lets you apply an instant filter to give a nostalgic look and feel to your portrait photos.

Dreamy Haze PSD Photo Effect for Portraits

Another Photoshop photo effect template with a unique design. This effect features an effect that combines glitching and hazy effects to create a beautiful dreamy look for portraits. The PSD template is very easy to customize as well.

Free Warm & Airy Portrait Photoshop Actions

You can download this Photoshop actions pack for free to easily enhance your portraits, selfies, and Instagram photos. It includes multiple PS actions with warm and airy effects. They are ideal for optimizing outdoor photos.

Oceania – Portrait Photoshop Actions

Oceania is a collection of professionally crafted Photoshop actions you can use to optimize your portraits, travel, and social media photos. It includes 5 different actions with various color styles and effects. The actions work with Photoshop CS4 and higher.

Glamour Photography  – Portrait Photoshop Actions

This is a set of 15 different Photoshop actions that are designed for improving your fashion photography and portraits. The actions create non-destructive effects that are also easily customizable to your preference.

10 Portrait Photoshop Actions

Check out this set of 10 orange and teal Photoshop actions for portrait photography that will help you create memorable pictures in just a matter of a few minutes. It’s. a great time-saving tool that deserves a spot in your Photoshop toolkit.

Digital Portrait Photoshop Action

This digital portrait Photoshop action is a must-have for every graphic designer and photographer. It will bring out your artistic side, and help you create stunning artwork. Grab it right now!

Black & White Portrait Photoshop Actions

Our next option provides you with 10 black and white Photoshop actions that will add a touch of vintage charm to your portraits. The product comes with a step-by-step instruction manual helping you make the most of the effects.

Portrait Series Photoshop Actions

Whether you are looking to add a subtle touch or a more dramatic effect to your portraits, this collection of 10 Photoshop actions can be of great help. The actions are non-destructive and compatible with Photoshop CS4 and newer. A great collection worth having in your arsenal!

Freya – Portrait Photoshop Actions

Perfectly suited for portrait, wedding and event photography, Freya is a fully-automated set of five photoshop actions designed to improve the overall appearance and mood of your pictures. It offers gorgeous non-destructive and customizable skin tones with soft matte touch tranforming your images into stellar shots.

Master – Portrait Photoshop Action

Kickstart editing portraits with this fine-tuned and one-of-a-kind Photoshop action. It converts your photos into amazing-looking portraits in just one click and is non-destructive enabling you to get back 100% of your original photo.

Sketch Portrait Photoshop Action

Wanting to achieve a professional artistic sketch effect for your images? Look no further than our next option featuring fully customizable colors, layers and other elements. It also comes with a video tutorial to help you make the most of the pencil sketch effect.

50 Free Portrait Photoshop Actions

Give your images a beautiful finish with the collection of 50 Photoshop actions in just a couple of minutes. Its not just super easy to create stunning portrait effects but also a lot of fun to play around with all the customizable features.

Portrait Into Text Photoshop Actions

Tranform and pin your portraits to lines of relevant wording in just a couple of seconds, thanks to this remarkably unique Portrait Photoshop action that does a great job with both black and white and colored images. A great choice for people looking to go bold, and fearless with their next visual project.

6 Free Grainy Portrait Photoshop Actions

Next up we have a fantastic set of six portrait Photoshop actions that will give a nice grainy touch to your photos. These are fast editing actions and will change the mood of your images in just a few seconds. This set of actions is compatible with Photoshop CS3 to CC.

50 High Contrast Portrait Photoshop Actions

A massive bundle full of 50 different Photoshop actions. This pack includes many types of effects that help you adjust and optimize the contrast of your photos while giving them a unique look. The actions work with RAW and JPEG images.

Infrared IR – Portrait Photoshop Actions

Another collection of unique portrait Photoshop actions that feature a stylish infrared effect. This pack comes with 12 different effects that give your photos a gothic vibe with an infrared effect.

HDR Portrait Photoshop Action

Give your photos an HDR effect without sweating over endless hours to create the look from scratch. This Photoshop action allows you to bring nice HDR effects to your images in just a few clicks of the mouse. Plus, with a range of customization options you get at your fingertips, you’ll have a great time playing around with all the amazing features.

Duotone Portrait Photoshop Action

Want to make your Insta feed interesting and scroll-worthy? Check out this collection of modern, and trendy duotone Photoshop actions perfectly suited for portrait, street, and closeup photography. This freebie is up for grabs on CreativeTacos.

Oil Painting – Portrait Photoshop Actions

This collection of Photoshop actions lets you turn your photos into oil paintings. It includes 10 different Photoshop actions featuring all kinds of oil painting effects for giving a comic-book look to your portrait photos.

Free Matte Film Photoshop Actions

The film look is a popular effect widely used in portrait photography. This bundle comes with a set of Photoshop actions that features a mix of both film and matte effects that create a unique look in portraits.

The pack includes 3 different Photoshop actions with various strengths of the effect. You can apply the action with just one click and customize the effect to your preference afterward as well.

High-quality free portrait Photoshop actions are hard to find. This is one of the actions that truly stand out from the crowd as it features a professional-quality effect you can download and use with both personal and commercial projects for free.

10 Free Matte Photoshop Actions

This is a bundle of free Photoshop actions featuring matte effects. It includes 10 different effects you can use to improve the tone and mood of your portraits.

Scarlet – Fantasy Photoshop Actions

Scarlet is a creative duo of Photoshop actions that will allow you to create a fantasy film-like effect in your portrait photos. The actions work best with outdoor photos with natural sunlight. And they are compatible with Photoshop CS4 and higher.

Nighty – Portrait Photoshop Actions

Give your photos a dark and gritty look and feel using this set of Photoshop actions. This pack includes 9 different actions featuring various effects. They are perfect for improving all types of photography.

Wanderlust – Portrait & Lifestyle Photoshop Actions

Wanderlust is a set of 3 unique Photoshop actions that are designed to help enhance portraits and lifestyle photos. These actions will optimize your photos to adjust the mood and tone and make them look more professional.

Free Christmas Portait Photoshop Actions

Brighten up your Christmas portraits, and winter photographs in just one click with the help of this carefully crafted set of Photoshop actions. The actions are high-quality, and non-destructive allowing you to retain 100% of the original photo.

Bouquet – Wedding Actions for Photoshop

Bouquet is a set of Photoshop actions specially designed for wedding photography. They work well with all types of wedding photos, including outdoor landscapes and portraits. It features 6 different actions with various effects.

Free Matte Photoshop Actions

This is a free Photoshop action that allows you to give a stylish film-like matte look to your portrait photos. This action works with Photoshop CS3 and higher, including Photoshop CC.

Free HDR Photoshop Actions

A bundle of free HDR Photoshop actions that will make your portraits look as if they were shot with a high-quality DSLR camera. It includes 3 different presets you can apply with just one-click.

Watercolor – Portrait Photoshop Actions

If you’re not a fan of oil painting effects, you can use this pack of Photoshop actions to make your photos look like watercolor paintings. The actions are compatible with Photoshop CS3 and higher.

Pinhole Halftone – Portrait Photoshop Actions

This collection of Photoshop actions comes with 2 different versions you can use for both low and high-resolution images. The actions create an old-school pinhole halftone effect.

Duotone  – Portrait Photoshop Actions

The duotone effect is quite popular among all kinds of graphic designers. This pack comes with multiple duotone effects you can use to give an authentic duotone look to your photos almost instantly.

Free Moody Portrait Photoshop Actions

Warm, chocolaty, and moody, these Photoshop actions will add high-contrast, and professional tones to your pictures, taking them to a new level of brilliance. The actions are non-destructive and provide you with an excellent way to perfect your everyday photos.

Free Soft Bright Portrait Photoshop Actions

Here we have a set of Photoshop actions for portrait photography that will brighten up your shots, and give them a soft, dream-like glowy look. The actions can be fully customized to match your vision, and are computable with Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6, and CC.

Tone Collection – CameraRaw Portrait Photoshop Actions

This is a set of filters you can use to quickly adjust and optimize the toning of your portrait photos. The pack includes presets for Photoshop actions as well as Camera RAW. It’s compatible with Photoshop CS5 and higher.

Chocolate – Portrait Photoshop Actions

This bundle of Photoshop actions is perfect for fashion and glamor portraits and photoshoots. It comes with a set of 10 unique Photoshop actions that create unique filter effects.

Free Tone Filter Photoshop Actions

A set of 3 unique Photoshop actions that feature high-quality toning effects. These will help you instantly improve the tone of your portraits without an effort.

Film Look Free Photoshop Action

With this free Photoshop action, you’ll be able to make your portrait photos look like a scene out of a movie. The action is compatible with all types of images and its customizable as well.

Cinnamon Portrait Actions

This bundle comes with a set of 6 unique toning Photoshop actions with a fantasy effect. It’s ideal to be used with portrait and fashion photos taken in outdoor natural light settings. You can the actions to adjust the photos taken in low-contrast settings, adding an atmospheric tone, and more.

Caramel Wedding Photoshop Action

Caramel is a pack of Photoshop actions especially designed for wedding portraits. It comes with 2 different actions to improve your post-processing workflow by quickly adjusting the photos taken in natural light and outdoors. The actions also generate adjustment layers for customizing the effects to your preference.

22 Soft Pastel Photoshop Actions

This bundle of Photoshop actions includes several stylish pastel effects for adding a colorful and hipster vibe to your portrait photos. It comes with 22 actions, all of which are non-destructive and fully-customizable.

Frequency Separation Photoshop Actions

Frequency separation is a technique used in Photoshop when airbrushing the skin of portrait photographs. This actions pack automate that process to get it done with just one-click. The frequency separation action is available in several different styles and versions, including 8-Bit, 16-Bit, and 32-Bit versions.

Double Light Photoshop Action

This stunning Photoshop action is perfect for adding a unique visual effect to your portrait photos and posters. The double light effect mixes two colors to give your portraits a sci-fi themed vibe. The action allows you to choose from 10 different color FX settings as well.

Hello Baby! Collection

When talking about portrait photography, baby portraits is something we can never forget. This pack of Photoshop actions is made specifically for making your baby photos extra adorable. It includes over 40 unique Photoshop actions for enhancing your baby photos, including foundation actions, retouching actions, workflow actions, artistic toning, and more.

Peony Photoshop Action

Peony is a set of 2 Photoshop actions made for outdoor and fashion portraits. It allows you to instantly adjust and enhance photos by giving them a rich toning effect. It will even give your dull photos a better color depth, especially for greens and flowers.

Bohemia Photoshop Actions

This bundle of Photoshop actions includes 5 unique actions that help you to achieve a boho-style effect for your portrait and fashion photos. It’s perfect for giving your photos a hipster look.

Suburbia Photoshop Actions

Suburbia is a collection of Photoshop actions that will help adjust the toning of your portrait and outdoor photos. It includes 6 different actions for giving rustic, soft, contrast, and other styles of effects for your photography.

Beach Vibes Photoshop Actions

If you’re a photographer or a designer who works with lots of beach photography, this bundle of Photoshop actions will come in handy. It includes 21 presets for enhancing and adding visual effects for your beach and bright light outdoor photos.

Gypsy Portrait Photoshop Actions

This collection comes with 4 different Photoshop actions for giving cinematic effects for your portrait photos. You can use the actions to give moody and cold effects as well as adjusting the tone of your photos.

Redwood Fairytale Photoshop Actions

Redwood is a set of 3 unique Photoshop actions designed to give your outdoor portrait photos a fantasy-themed effect. It includes a morning haze effect, a twilight haze effect, and an evening sunset effect.

Photo Paint Action

This is a collection of 5 Photoshop actions that allows you to turn your portrait photos into paintings. Each action in this pack will give a different style of a painting effect with various brush stroke intensity. It also includes a sharpening action and 3 noise actions as an added bonus.

Tallgrass Photoshop Action

Tallgrass comes with 2 Photoshop actions for enhancing your portrait photos, especially outdoor and travel photography. It will help enhance the color depth and tune the greens to achieve a stunning visual effect.

Charcoal Action

This Photoshop action pack includes 3 different actions for achieving the perfect black and white effect for your portrait photos. It will allow you to enhance your photos with a soft charcoal black and white effect to give them a retro and classic vibe.

Watercolor Action

Another Photoshop action that turns turn your photos into watercolor paintings. This action allows you to choose from 5 different color options to give a realistic watercolor painting effect to your portrait photos.

Bleach Action

Bleach action comes in 2 variations that allow you to instantly improve your portrait photos to bring out more detail and color. It’s specially designed for photos taken in studios and photos with low exposure.

Cinematic Photoshop Actions

This is a bundle of 25 Photoshop actions, which includes 19 cinematic effects actions and 6 toning adjustment actions. The effects in this pack have been designed inspired by movies such as the 300, Life Of Pi, Matrix, and Skyfall to help you achieve the same movie-like effects.

50 Film Noir PS Actions Bundle

A massive bundle of 50 different Photoshop actions containing different styles of cinematic and film noir effects. All of the actions in this pack are crafted to perfection by an award-winning photographer. It includes 30 cinematic color enhancing actions and 20 B&W color actions.

Retouch – Portrait Effects Photoshop Action

Wanting an all-in-one Photoshop Action that can meet all your photo editing needs? The Retouch Bundle has you covered. With 50 Portrait Photoshop Actions, you can adjust tone, soften skin, refine details, and much more without having any prior experience with the software.

Golden – Photoshop Portrait Actions

If you are a blogger looking for a set of Photoshop Actions that can help your everyday pictures make an impression, our next option is your best bet. This bundle of actions and presets has virtually everything you might need to achieve with your portraits. It’s compatible with both Photoshop and Lightroom.

Flowerage – Photoshop Portrait Actions

Here we have a set of 24 portrait effects Photoshop Actions that are exclusively created for natural light portraiture, wedding, and art photography. The presets are fully customizable and compatible with both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

Digital Painting – Portrait Effects Photoshop Action

Transform your photos into digital paintings with our next Photoshop Action that contains exhaustive techniques and brushes, editable masks, canvas colors, backgrounds, and a range of other super amazing features.

3 Tips for Editing Portrait Photos

If you’re new to editing portrait photos, these tips will help you get a better understanding of how the editing process works.

1. Try to Use RAW Images

As you know, JPG is a file format that uses compression to try and reduce the size of your images while preserving the quality of the image. As a result, the JPG file format sacrifices some data and quality elements captured by the sensor of your camera in exchange for convenience.

This is why most professional photographers use the RAW file format. This format captures photos in much higher quality without affecting the quality of the image whatsoever. Even most modern smartphones now have the option to enable RAW file format.

Use it whenever you can to capture high-quality images so when you edit them in Photoshop, you’ll have a much better and uncompressed image to work with.

2. Master the Art of Toning

Toning is the process of adjusting the color balance, brightness, and contrast, and saturation levels to achieve the perfect balance in your photos. This process usually differs from one photo to another based on certain conditions like lighting conditions and camera settings. When it comes to portraits, this also applies to skin toning as well.

Whichever process you follow to set the mood with toning, always remember to use adjustment layers in Photoshop to create non-destructive adjustments. This way you’ll be able to easily edit or revert your changes however you like.

3. Don’t Overuse the Healing Brush

Healing brush is a handy tool in Photoshop that is widely used when editing portrait photos to get rid of things like pimples, freckles, and more. However, most designers make the mistake of taking it too far and using these tools to make photos look unrealistically flawless.

This is not what Photoshop is made for. Remember to preserve the natural look of the portraits while you improve the photos. Know your limits especially when using tools like healing brush and clone stamp.

The Photoshop actions in our list are designed to automate some of these basic adjustments. They are quite useful if you’re new to photo editing.

In this article, I try to summarize the best practices mentioned by various accessibility experts and their work (like this, this, and this) into a single article that’s easy to read, understand, and apply.

Let’s begin.

What are tooltips?

Tooltips are used to provide simple text hints for UI controls. Think of them as tips for tools. They’re basically little bubbles of text content that pop up when you hover over an unnamed control (like the bell icon in Stripe).

If you prefer more of a formal definition, Sarah Highley provides us with a pretty good one:

A “tooltip” is a non-modal (or non-blocking) overlay containing text-only content that provides supplemental information about an existing UI control. It is hidden by default, and becomes available on hover or focus of the control it describes.

She further goes on to say:

That definition could even be narrowed down even further by saying tooltips must provide only descriptive text.

This narrowed definition is basically (in my experience) how every accessibility expert defines tooltips:

• A tooltip is a popover.
• Tooltips must not contain interactive content.

Heydon Pickering takes things even further, saying: If you’re thinking of adding interactive content (even an ok button), you should be using dialog instead.

In his words:

You’re thinking of dialogs. Use a dialog.

Two kinds of tooltips

Tooltips are basically only used for two things:

1. Labeling an icon
2. Providing a contextual description of an icon

Heydon separates these cleanly into two categories, “Primary Label” and “Auxiliary description” in his Inclusive Components article on tooltips and toggletips).

Labeling

If your tooltip is used to label an icon — using only one or two words — you should use the aria-labelledby attribute to properly label it since it is attached to nothing else on the page that would help identify it.

<button aria-labelledby="notifications"> ... </button>
<div role="tooltip" id="notifications">Notifications</div> 

You could provide contextual information, like stating the number of notifications, by giving a space-separated list of ids to aria-labelledby.

<button aria-labelledby="notifications-count notifications-label">  
  <!-- bell icon here --> 
  <span id="notifications-count">3</span>
</button>  

<div role="tooltip" id="notifications-label">Notifications</div>

Providing contextual description

If your tooltip provides a contextual description of the icon, you should use aria-describedby. But, when you do this, you also need to provide an accessible name for the icon.

In this case, Heydon recommends including the label as the text content of the button. This label would be hidden visually from sighted users but read for screen readers.

Then, you can add aria-describedby to include the auxiliary description.

<button class="notifications" aria-describedby="notifications-desc">  
  <!-- icon for bell here --> 
  <span id="notifications-count">3</span> 
  <span class="visually-hidden">Notifications</span>
</button>  

<div role="tooltip" id="notifications-desc">View and manage notifications settings</div> 

Here, screen readers would say “3 notifications” first, followed by “view and manage notifications settings” after a brief pause.

Additional tooltip dos and don’ts

Here are a couple of additional points you should be aware of:

Do:

• Use aria-labellebdy or aria-describedby attributes depending on the type of tooltip you’re building.
• Use the tooltip role even if it doesn’t do much in screen readers today, because it may extend accessibility support for some software.
• Open tooltips on mouseover or focus, and close them on mouseout or blur.
• Allow a mouse user to move their mouse over the tooltip content without dismissing the tooltip.
• Allow a keyboard user to close the tooltip on the Escape button, per WCAG Success Criterion 1.4.13.

Don’t:

• Don’t use the title attribute. Much has been said about this so I shall not repeat them.
• Don’t use the aria-haspopup attribute with the tooltip role because aria-haspopup signifies interactive content while tooltip should contain non-interactive content.
• Don’t include essential content inside tooltips because some screen readers may ignore aria-labelledby or aria-describedby. (It’s rare, but possible.)

Tooltip limitations and alternatives

Tooltips are inaccessible to most touch devices because:

• users cannot hover over a button on a touch device, and
• users cannot focus on a button on a touch device.

The best alternative is not to use tooltips, and instead, find a way to include the label or descriptive text in the design.

If the “tooltip” contains a lot of content — including interactive content — you may want to display that information with a Toggletip (or just use a <dialog> element).

Heydon explains toggletips nicely and concisely:

Toggletips exist to reveal information balloons. Often they take the form of little “i” icons.

These informational icons should be wrapped within a <button> element. When opened, screen readers can announce the text contained in it through a live region with the status role.

<span class="tooltip-container"> 
  <button type="button" aria-label="more info">i</button> 
  <span role="status">This clarifies whatever needs clarifying</span>
</span>

Speaking anymore about toggletips detracts this article from tooltips so I’ll point you to Heydon’s “Tooltips and Toggletips” article if you’re interested in chasing this short rabbit hole.

That’s all you need to know about tooltips and their current best practices!

Further reading

• Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs (Zell Liew)
• Tooltips and Toggletips (Inclusive Components)
• Tooltips in the time of WCAG 2.1 (Sarah Higley)
• Short note on aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby (Léonie Watson)
• Some Hands-On with the HTML Dialog Element (Chris Coyier)

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Ever notice how a standout video starts strong, pulling you in within those first few seconds? That’s the power of a well-crafted intro. For anyone on a mission to up their video game—be it editors, YouTubers, influencers, or marketers—your choice of intro templates for Premiere Pro is a golden ticket to making an impression that sticks. And here’s the thing: crafting an effective video intro is less about intricate animations and more about hooking your audience right from the get-go.

Whether you’re after free intro templates for Premiere Pro or exploring some next-level options, the perfect intro template sets the tone, adds consistency to your brand, and builds that initial connection with viewers. Just picture your intro as the warm handshake before the deep dive into your content.

In this list, you’ll find a mix of visually striking and adaptable templates designed to make your content stand out—without overcomplicating things. From sleek typography-driven designs to high-energy motion graphics, these templates aim to elevate your content in a way that’s simple, effective, and easy to use.

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