VISUAL RESOURCES
FREE Design Images for you as a student
https://buffer.com/library/free-images
Start here: a list of 24 different free stock photo sites! Here are plenty more: Pixabay: a large free/CU stock photo site with over a million high quality photos https://search.creativecommons.org/ - very useful search engine for CCO 1.0 https://www.designcuts.com - fonts, elements, realia https://picryl.com/ - world's largest collection of public domain images https://www.mockupworld.co/all-mockups/ - many free product mockups https://www.pixelsurplus.com/free-goods - free fonts, mockups, graphics, textures Europeana Collections - millions of museum images searchable by colour, orientation, size https://365psd.com/ - free .psd graphics designbundles.net/free-design-resources# - elements for designers https://www.designermill.com/ - modern mock-ups & products https://dealjumbo.com/ - great free product mockups and fonts https://freebiesbug.com/ - freebies for web design/developers https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ - beautiful vintage woodcuts & engravings https://freedesignresources.net/ - fonts, mockups, templates https://www.graphicsfuel.com/ - graphics, mockups, vectors, icons https://shakespeareillustration.org/ - vintage woodcuts in the public domain Stock Photo sites: a list of 22 good sites, compiled by mymodernmet.com Over four hundred open source art books from the Met - it will take some work .... but also 400 thousand free art images to sort through. |
Inspiration Resources for you as a designer
https://readcereal.com
- exploring gorgeous global spaces https://www.creativebloq.com - great variety of visual collections https://www.packagingoftheworld.com - cosmopolitan package design http://creativeroots.org - global design news clips https://designtaxi.com - short illustrated graphic design news https://www.behance.net/ - showcase for design professionals https://dribbble.com/ - showcase & shop for graphic designers |
Helpful Art and Design Tools
What to do if you can't afford Adobe Photoshop?
Here are a few FREE graphic design programs:
GIMP, Krita, Paint.net (supports Korean), MyPaint, MediBang Paint (available in Korean here), or Autodesk Sketchbook (free here!) And there's always MS Paint , the simplest graphics program ever, available on every PC since 1985!
Here are a few FREE graphic design programs:
GIMP, Krita, Paint.net (supports Korean), MyPaint, MediBang Paint (available in Korean here), or Autodesk Sketchbook (free here!) And there's always MS Paint , the simplest graphics program ever, available on every PC since 1985!
Or you could try some of these other recommendations: Canva.com - free design and layout program online. Fire Alpaca - free, use online or download, compatible with PC or Mac, supports layers. PaintTool SAI - 30 days free trial, with layers, vector, brushes, palettes, and other art tools Corel Painter- 30 days free trial at this link - a competitor to Photoshop with many art tools Autodraw.com - start sketching an image. The app will guess what you are drawing and give you a clear clip art or icon image you can copy and use for presentations or other designs. |
FREE Online Design Classes
Make Posters, Create Digital Images, Mobile App Design, Digital Drawing
(and many more free online courses from Adobe!) https://edex.adobe.com/en/professional-development/courses |
How to Create a Mood Board Using Canva & Photoshop
https://sketchuphub.com/course/introduction-interior-design-mood-board-photoshop-canva/ |
Colour Theory for Artists & Designers
https://alison.com/course/colour-theory-for-artists-and-designers |
Photoshop for Beginners - 7 Short Lessons
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Adobe-Photoshop-CC-%E2%80%93-Essentials-Training-Course/1810443793?via=search-related-tag |
Digital Scrapbooking for Beginners
https://www.udemy.com/course/digital-1-weve-just-begun/ |
Learn Illustrator
https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-illustrator/ |
Corel Draw for Beginners
https://www.udemy.com/course/corel-draw-from-straight-line-to-a-logo/ |
Colour Palette Generators
https://paletton.com/ - an intuitive way to create a variety of formal colour schemes: monochrome, adjacent, triad (3-colour), tetrad (4-colour), and freestyle. https://coolors.co/ - simple random generator: click the lock icon on the colour you like to keep it, space bar to get new colours. You can also look at or copy other user-created palettes. https://colorhunt.co/ - ready-to-go palettes: search by colour or style to find one you like and copy it https://color.adobe.com/create - Adobe's simple colour circle gives you even more options than Paletton. If you have a Creative Cloud account, you can save any colour palettes you generate. |
http://colormind.io/ - you can upload an image and randomly generate palettes from that image, making this one of the most fun and easy apps. https://color.hailpixel.com - Colordot is a playful site where you move your mouse around the screen and click when you find a colour you love. Add as many colours to your palette as you want, then click the cogwheel icon to edit and adjust them. https://themecolors.co/ many ready-made palettes you can search by colour. http://www.colr.org/ choose a ready-made palette, upload your own image and generate a palette, or search by colour word to get many more word associations ( for example: 'aqua' -> ocean, surf, seaside, water, marine, etc.) |