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What you need is some help from artists who’ve already blazed a trail and discovered what actually works. Because some of those ideas might work for you too. So check out the following list of excellent role models for tons of ideas. And don’t just stick to your own field – cross-pollinate and explore ideas from other disciplines.... 
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In order to arrange your design, you need a place to start. Backgrounds are the foundation of your graphics — it helps pave the path to forming a successful composition. Textures and colors help create depth and contrast, allowing your graphics to stand out and get noticed. Well composed images can help create space for you to overlay text, while visually communicating your message at the same time. Using a background can help give your designs more context and provide a visual element to help support your content. Bonus: We’ve designed most of the images in this article as templates for you to personalize! To use them for your own stuff, just click them and they’ll be ready to edit in your Canva account (No Canva? It’s free!).
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Blogging or designing visuals? Learn these background design tips to make your message pop.
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
April 25, 2016 11:10 PM
The post contains some interesting design tips on working with backgrounds with some ready-to-use templates thrown in!
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There are thousands of Tumblr themes all over the web. To be perfectly frank, most of them aren’t great, and won’t do your creative work justice. Today we’ve collected thirty of our favourite premium Tumblr themes from across the web.
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Blogging strategies and Creativity with your coffee.
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A gentle application of transparency to your images is a clever way to create beautiful designs. Whether applied to a photograph used as a background or to shape and text to form a layered effect, this tool is a powerful and popular part of the web and print design process....
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Canva shares some cool design tips, perfect for bloggers.
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Hold the front page used to have a interesting, and updated daily, section called 'story ideas.' The idea was simple - you have slow news days, and these were ideas to see you through....A rainy day in Bury, obviously, isn’t news. However, hopefully these 10 websites could be of use. Yes, some of them are obvious, but I thought I’d list them all the same.
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Writer's block? Bloggers and writers take note...
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Color makes a design come alive.It can attract attention, set a mood, and even influence our emotions and perceptions.
But sometimes it can be hard to know where to start when choosing a color palette for your design project.
So we’ve done the hard work for you— giving you 100 color combinations inspired by nature, food & drink, travel, and everyday items.
Want to use these color combinations in Canva? Click here to sign up for free if you haven’t already (if you haven’t — are you kidding me?!).
Canva lets you change the colors of your design by entering the hex code in the color menu. Check out the video below for a quick tutorial on how...
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A stunning collection of color palettes inspired by food, nature, travel and everyday items. Free to download in Canva! Recommended reading! 9/10
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Update – we launched Pablo a new tool to create beautiful images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds You can use Pablo right from the get-go, no need to login or create an account. Just quickly create amazing images super fast. To make the visual side of your social media strategy a bit easier, here are some tools to help you create awesome pictures....
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Awesome tools for designers, bloggers and marketers! Recommended reading. 10/10
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No design experience? No problem! Let's start from scratch and get familiar with the basic Canva tools that will help you create amazing designs. Design Essentials will guide you through simple tools and techniques that will help you create designs you can proudly share with the world. Fonts bring your words to life. Learn how to easily choose fonts that emphasize your message and make your designs look beautiful. Color can be used to convey moods and create emphasis in your designs. We show you how to build meaningful color relationships to create visually stunning graphics. Whether you upload your own, or choose from our library of over a million, images are a vital component of eye-catching designs. Learn how to use simple Canva tools to compose and enhance your images for greater visual impact....
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Canva has created a wonderful set of free design tutorials using their superb design tool. From an educational and learning point of view, the way they have simplified the training and tutorials is in itself a set of best practices. Highly recommended for bloggers, PR, content marketing, and even design pros. 10/10
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Take your DIY design skills to the next level by getting a crash course in typography. ...Every little change you make to a word or a body of text can make a huge difference in the overall piece. The little details do matter. In fact, one of the only college courses Steve Jobs took was on calligraphy and typography, which he believed played a critical role in the success of Apple. As he once said in his Stanford University commencement speech, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts." Can you imagine a world where Apple products didn't have a focus on beautiful design? I certainly can't. So, what do you say? Are you ready to take your DIY design skills to the next level? Let's get started....
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Really useful typography basics for blogging and website content.
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