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Essentials
- Canvas
- Communication Studies gear checkout
- 40 free resources every designer should know
- PDF templates for designers (storyboards, wireframes, graph paper etc.)
Fonts
- How to install fonts on your computer (Note: if the font does not appear in your application, you may need to quit and restart the application after installing the font.)
- DaFont (A place to find free fonts. Note: check the licenses before using a font in your document because not all fonts are licensed for creating PDFs even though the fonts are free.)
- Font Squirrel (A place to find free fonts. Again, check the licensing for individual fonts you want to use.)
- Adobe TypeKit (A place to find free fonts. Works best for Creative Cloud subscribers.)
- Google Fonts (Good for web design and changing your fonts online, on your blog or web page.)
- Google Web Fonts Typographic Project
- Four Techniques for Combining Fonts
- The Ultimate Guide to Font Pairing
- Best Fonts for Every Occasion
- Web Font Combinator (allows you to preview font combinations)
- Typ.io (holy font combinations, Batman)
Color
- Adobe Color
- Coolors
- Color Hunt (color schemes)
- Design Seeds (color schemes mostly from nature)
- Colour Lovers (color palette sharing)
- Paletton (great for envisioning color schemes in a design)
- Tiny PMS Match is an Instagram project and now a book that matches Pantone colors to objects in the world.
- Color Blender asks you to pick one color and then gives you suggestions for complementary colors
Adobe Illustrator
- Explanation of tools in Illustrator
- Quick tutorials for beginners
- Demo of the Pen Tool
- Demo of the Brushes Tool
- Create a seamless brush pattern
- How to design a logo
- Creating Cool Banners, Shields, and Shapes in Illustrator
- How to Create Banner, Label and Badge Templates in Illustrator
- How to create a web icon
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop and photography
- The Photoshop workspace
- List of all tutorials available from Adobe
- Cropping and rotating a photo
- Cut out something from an image
- Select part of an image
- How to use Adjustment Layers in Photoshop CS6 (I know this is not for Creative Cloud, but CS6 adjustment layers are so similar that it won’t matter.)
- Easy way to get photos off your phone — for MAC users
- Easy way to get photos off your phone — for WINDOWS users
Where to find non-copyrighted stock photos and video
- CC Search (Creative Commons)
- Pixabay
- Unsplash
- Stock photos of technology users
- Prelinger Archive
- OrangeHD
Where to find non-copyrighted sounds and music
- Tips and ideas for making your own sound effects
- Freesound.org (free audio clips licensed for remixing)
- Search SoundCloud creative commons
- CC Mixter (free instrumental music)
- Free Music Archive – library of high quality copyright cleared music — has search feature where you can filter music by genre and mood
- Internet Archive
- mobygratis – free music for filmmakers, created by Moby
- Jamendo – more than 10,000 albums of free, cc licensed music
- Macauley Library – Cornell University’s archive of natural sounds (video too)
- Musopen – copyright free music (and sheet music)
- pdsounds environmental sound archive
- Public Domain Music
- SoundTransit – creative commons licensed field recordings
Adobe Premiere and videography
- How to edit videos with Premiere Pro (great overview for beginners)
- Adobe Premiere tutorials
- Adobe Premiere Pro: basic editing introduction
- Create and edit titles in Adobe Premiere
- Create cinematic color in Adobe Premiere
- How You Can Use Silence to Tell Better Stories
- The Basics of Video Editing
- Take Better Video on iPhone
- Film Analysis Guide