How-to use the Adobe colour picker to choose a colour palette

branding, tutorials

adobe colour picker Helloooo! Here’s a fresh video for you today – it’s one of my favourite colour-picking tools that I share with my clients. There are lots of colour picking programs around, but I like sharing the Adobe colour picker because...

How to Color Patterns in Illustrator

contributions, illustration, tutorials

(How to Color Patterns in Illustrator: Guest post by Sew Heidi. We’ve been working on colour this month, so I thought this would be a fitting one to finish with! Heidi always writes such great posts, and this is no exception. Enjoy.) I’ve watched many...

THE 10 things to get you flying on Instagram : Part 1

small biz, tutorials

  Instagram. It’s all about the image, so make it work for you! It’s a great business tool, and I’ll get to why in a minute. But you don’t have to – of course you can simply use Instagram for your own amusement and to share your life...

Small biz how-to: Make product labels with PicMonkey

branding, small biz, tutorials

Another tutorial on PicMonkey? Yes yes of course! Because it’s easy and it’s free and you can do fabulous things with it for your business 🙂 In this one, I get to grips with making beautiful packaging, as presentation is another indispensable tool for...

Making Blogger pretty: adding social media icons (and other tricks)

small biz, tutorials

{background pattern Autumn Swirl by Chulabird, here}   If you have any kind of a blog that is connected to your business in some way, you absolutely need to include links to your social media accounts. Using social media icons is the most popular and the most...