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100 Brilliant Color Combinations: How to Apply Them to Your Designs

100 Brilliant Color Combinations: How to Apply Them to Your Designs | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

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...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

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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10 Expert Tips for Designing With a Blurred Background [Case Studies] – Design School

10 Expert Tips for Designing With a Blurred Background [Case Studies] – Design School | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

If you pay attention to web and graphic design styles, you may have noticed that this has been something of a trend in recent years. You might see blurred images popping up in website hero headers (the large images that extend the whole width of a page) or as site backgrounds, or to set off typography in graphic design.


But the design trends that stick around, like this one, usually do because they’re functional as well as beautiful — they have a purpose beyond just following the crowd or experimenting with a new look just because you can. Good trends do something to improve your designs.


So how can you use blurred images to enhance your own designs? Let’s look at 10 techniques....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Canva shares tips to help you master the use of blurred images and bring new life to your designs.

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The Ultimate Social Media Template Guide 2016 - ShortStack

The Ultimate Social Media Template Guide 2016 - ShortStack | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Having a stash of templates, with all the dimensions needed for your go-to social media platforms, can be a huge time saver!

Our new social media template guide includes the latest updates to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram. You’ll find all the dimensions plus posting tips in this 21-page PDF. 

And while there are plenty of social media image size templates out there, ours has been updated for 2016, and includes advice with posting tips and strategies....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

These templates will help you get right-sized graphics fast for each key social media channel.

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