If a picture is worth a thousand words, then consider a video worth a thousand bucks to your website, more specifically… an intro video! There’s no better way to establish yourself for all prospective website visitors than a video describing what your brand is and why it relates to them. With more people using their mobile […]
How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop
Are you a budding YouTube content creator? A new designer without much experience with YouTube? If you’re looking to increase your views and grab a user’s attention, you might need to think about your video thumbnails. YouTube video thumbnails serve as sort of a book cover for videos. If a thumbnail appears to be high-quality, […]
How to Compress Video For Online Streaming
Depending on where you’re uploading your video content, you’ll need to find the correct file settings to get the right result. Choosing a container format A video container format is a digital wrapper for your content. They determine the extension of your video file. Popular container formats include MP4 (.mp4), AVI (.avi), QuickTime (.mov) and […]
How You Can Enhance Web Presence with Animated Video on Your Landing Page
The trend for online animated video is growing exponentially, presenting web users with a stream of imaginative and innovative content to feast their eyes on. The bottom line is that the creative medium has proved effective in leading to conversions, and companies who overlook this could be left behind. Businesses of every kind are adopting […]
25 Videos and Resources for Learning Color Theory
It takes hours of study and practice to understand the basics of digital design. Many jobs rely on these fundamentals when creating print work, icons, After Effects touchups, and dozens of similar examples. One fundamental concept every designer should recognize is color theory. It’s a broad subject which hovers around a field of science and […]
30 Video Tutorials for learning to use Adobe Premiere Pro
Digital creatives are known for delving into new topics of interest. Personally I love entertainment media, especially related to film or animation. Adobe Premiere Pro is a top-tier video suite which can help directors and other film editors put together finished pieces. But when you don’t know anything about the software it’s very confusing and […]
Pro Tools 10 Keyboard Shortcuts [Infographic]
Video editing has become a colossal industry along with the advancements in cinema, television, and with animated cartoons. Online video streaming has allowed anyone with the proper skillset to develop their own web series and upload to YouTube or even produce with a company such as Netflix. But it takes a lot of practice to […]
35 Fullscreen Websites for Design Inspiration
The idea of a fullscreen website has evolved rapidly over the past few years. Fullscreen images, videos, and even parallax layouts have become normal in the design community. As such the descriptive buzzword “fullscreen” can mold around many various techniques. For this gallery I want to share 35 outstanding examples of typical fullscreen web design. […]
Collection of 26 jQuery Plugins for Handling Website Media
Over the course of 2012 and well into 2013 we have seen lots of open source projects come to fruition. Developers are more than happy to publish their codes online if not to support and help other developers with the same problems. Most notably the jQuery JavaScript library has grown to amass a huge following […]