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Nick Saporito

Reflective water effect
Create A Reflective Water Effect with GIMP
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In today’s tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can take any image and make it appear as if it is reflected in water. The interesting part of this process is that we won’t be using any actual images of water – it’s just a reflection of the image itself with some design magic added! The…

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4 Free Bakery Logo Templates | Editable Vector Download
 4 Free Bakery Logo Templates | Editable Vector Download 1024 602 Nick Saporito
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I was going through some old projects and came across a few unused logo designs for bakeries and figured I’d throw them up on the site — in vector format — as a free download. The free bakery logo templates are as follows… Free Bakery Logo Templates This first design depicts a whimsical-style chef hat…

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Inkscape text portrait
Create Text Portraits with Inkscape
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In today’s tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can create vector text portraits with Inkscape. This will be a relatively simple masking exercise, but I’ll also be introducing a new technique in flowing text into an object. The following will be a brief written overview for how to execute this effect with Inkscape. For complete step-by-step…

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My 12 Best Small Caps Fonts | Free Downloads
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A small caps font is any font in which both the uppercase and lowercase variations of a letter are capitalized. The best small caps fonts do so while maintaining a consistent weight throughout each letter. The above image depicts both an uppercase and a lowercase letter A. Notice how they’re both capitalized though. A common…

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3 Color Combinations for Logos
3 Color Combinations for Logos | Best Practices for 2018
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Earlier this year I wrote a post outlining some examples of good logo color combinations as it relates to pairing 2 colors. When pairing 2 colors, choosing contrasting shades usually works well. But when it comes to 3 color combinations for logos, it’s a little trickier. Usually what works best is to use the 2 contrasting colors…

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Logo design invoice template
Logo Design Invoice Template | Free Editable PDF
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In this post I’ll be sharing my logo design invoice template in a variety of editable formats that you can alter and use yourself! Simply remove my contact info and add your own. Payment processing services like PayPal and Square offer invoicing capabilities for you to collect payment from your clients, but sometimes your client…

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Free wood textures for vector design
9 Free Wood Textures for Vector Design
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If you’re looking to add character to your vector design work, texture masking is a great way to do so. In a previous post I shared a pack of free grunge textures and it was very well received, so today I’m going to be providing a bundle of 9 free wood textures for vector design…

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Graphic design studio equipment
Recommended Graphic Design Studio Equipment for 2018
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Over the past 7 years that I’ve spent as a graphic designer, I’ve learned the importance of having the right hardware. Proper graphic design studio equipment helps you get your job done quicker and more efficiently, saving you both time as well as money in the long run. In this post I’ll be sharing some of…

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GIMP color menu opens off screen
GIMP 2.10 Color Menu Opens Off Screen | Quick Fix
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GIMP recently released version 2.10, and as is often the case with new software releases, there’s still some kinks that need to be worked out. In this post I’ll be addressing a particular problem that I’ve been encountering myself since upgrading — the GIMP color menu opening off of the screen. When you click to…

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GIMP reduce file size PNG
How To Reduce PNG File Size By 70% with GIMP
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In today’s tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to use GIMP to reduce the file size of your PNG images by 70%, and without losing much quality. Why Reduce File Size? If you’ve ever created a website that you wanted to do well in Google Search, you probably already know that site speed is a significant factor.…

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