Photography & Imagery

Video is creeping into areas of digital design that would have been unthinkable 5 years ago. Daniel has some thoughts on presenting a great video UX.

What keeps designers hungry? Fresh meat, of course. Aja has 14 new wells of inspiration to keep you shooting at the stars.

Like great music, good web design shouldn’t be all about flashy tricks and visual theatrics. It must actually perform.

One underestimated aspect of a great UX is providing precisely the right content at precisely the right time. That's the focus of 'lazy loading images'.

Sometimes the most wonderful creations die for want of a tiny bit of design love. Maybe you can make the difference?

SVG is great but what's the best way to convert your existing JPEGs and PNGs into SVG format?

Background videos: when they're good, they're very, very good, but when they are bad, they are horrid. Angus has some tips to keep you out of trouble.

Sketch App has become a viable graphics option for many designers, but it has its... quirks. Daniel looks at some big improvements in the latest update.

Often it's the small, random details in a story that make it feel authentic. Advertising great David Ogilvy understood the value of great storytelling.

The hardest part of finding the perfect image is there are just too many options. We've got three tips to help you save time and narrow down your search.

Design trends have a natural ebbs and flows and it's hard not to get sucked along with the new wave. Workerbee has some smart methods to find your own path.

Sometimes you can create something new by taking away. Here are 2 great examples where a new story is created by photoshopping out parts of the original.

Now MagicMirror gives Sketch App users access to some of the same features to create a perspective mockup.

Screen resolutions keep increasing and so do the challenges of front-end development. James George looks at the current state of play.

The world is not flat! Or doesn't have to be. Kelsey gets your imagination bubbling with some design employing beautifully loose watercolor tones.

Has the flat design revolution left you feeling a little... flat? Sometimes a teaspoon of gritty, printy goodness can give a clinical design a lift.

We all need to share branding assets at some time, but emailing ZIP can be ungainly and inefficient. Brandisty offers an alternative way to manage assets.

People love Sketch App because of its simplicity. But that doesn't mean we can't tweak it to our own workflows.

Ivaylo has returned from silent meditation to deliver 7 more tips on being that Photoshop guru that everyone wishes they could be.

We all know about image formats – or do we? Monty looks at the old standards with fresh eyes and does some testing.

A blank page can be a cruel taskmaster. Sometimes randomness is a good way to route around your normal design habits into new ideas.

Designers are hunters, always tracking the perfect assets to tell their story. Adobe Stock brings the hunt into your Creative Cloud app.

Often it's the flaws in a technology – the brush strokes, the audio hiss – that we celebrate most. Khoi Vin celebrates the halftone in his latest design.

Daniel Schwarz explains how Adobe Stock can make it easy to mix and match stock images to find the perfect image for the layout you're using.

A lot of us muddle our way through Photoshop to get a result. Ivaylo has a checklist to get you set up the 'right' way.

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Vectors are a great option for icons but the decision between icon fonts and SVG is a hard one. Now Seren Davies has raised some new issues with icon fonts.

Everyone loves a hero. Gabrielle brings a fresh literary point of view to the classic hero section.

While vector icons have grabbed the spotlight, pixel-based icons make up most of the icons we see each day. Ada looks at the options for pixel icon editors.

It's 2015 and mobile browser numbers have officially surpassed their desktop cousins. Gabrielle looks at 5 mobile design trends that are shaping the market.