Hey everybody, this is Anne with Graphic Design
How To, and today we're going to go over what
I think are the best graphic design extensions
and websites out there that are available
to you.
And the extensions I'm talking about are all
available on Google Chrome, but I have not
tested them in other browsers.
So there's that.
But I want to start out with extensions.
If you want to install these extensions, you
just go up here to these three little dots,
and go to More Tools> Extensions.
And then, you can just click on these three
lines and go down to the very bottom, and
do a search for, say, Piktab.
So if I search for it here, P-i-k-t-a-b, you
can just add it right here, and it'll show
up right up here.
Now since we already just searched for Piktab,
that's the first one I want to talk about
today.
And we'll go up here to the extension, and
click it one time, and this will open a sort
of web page.
It's not really a web page, but it's sort
of a little picture browser.
And this just shows you all of the free graphics
that are available for you.
You have to be careful because some of them,
you have to credit the author.
So, when you download it, it should tell you
that.
But first, come over here to these three little
lines, and we'll get this set up.
Now, I like to just turn off the fact that
it makes Piktab your default homepage.
I like Google for my homepage.
OK, and then we'll come over here to 'Sources.'
I usually just 'Select all' and 'Apply.
' 'Tags'...I only like to see Vectors, Icons,
Textures, and Photos, maybe Psd's, so we'll
apply those, and then it'll search only those
things.
I'm not really interested in the video right
now.
You can kind of just pick the things you use
the most.
Alright, and then you can just search for
what you need.
We'll do brick background, and here are some
options.
I'm going to click this one, and this takes
me to Freepik.
Now this says free download, free license
with attribution.
Attribution means you need to put this on
your website that you got it from Freepik,
which I'm okay with doing that.
And then you can just download it right there.
So Piktab is really awesome.
Piktab actually is made by Freepik, so a lot
of these resources are from Freepik.
So that is the first very awesome extension.
The next one is called Site Palette.
So with this extension, you can go to any
site that you like, and it will find all of
the colors in that site and make a palette
for you.
So, if we click this right now on Barkley's
website, which is one of my favorite advertising
agencies, it'll show you some colors that
it took from this website.
But there are some other options here.
For example, Adobe Swatch.
If we click that, we'll get an ASE file that
we can load straight into Illustrator or Photoshop
or anything, and we can use any of these colors.
It's really cool.
So that's Site Palette for you.
OK, next on the list is FontFace Ninja.
If you see a really cool font out there on
the web that you like, you can just click
this guy, and then you just hover over the
text that you want to see, and it'll tell
you exactly what font that is.
And that way you can go buy it or whatever
you need.
Some of them are probably going to be free,
which is awesome.
You can just download those.
So, it's Fontface Ninja, and that is the third
awesome extension for graphic designers.
Now let's switch over to websites.
There's some really great websites that I
like to use a lot for color.
And the first one is color.adobe.com.
And this is Adobe Color.
With this site, it allows you to edit colors,
pull them around and change things this way
and you can build your own color palettes
pretty easily with this little tool.
Now you can come up here to 'Explore,' and
see other people's color palettes.
You can 'appreciate' them, you can download
them, and load them up into Illustrator or
Photoshop.
It is just a really useful site for color.
So definitely check this one out.
It's color.adobe.com.
Now there's another one that has to do with
color that I found really interesting.
It's called colorhunt.co, and this one is
just a bunch of color palettes.
Now check these out.
This is similar to the Adobe one.
It doesn't actually look like it's going to
be as easy to get these palettes, but you
can always take a screenshot and just bring
it into Illustrator and then use your eyedropper
to grab those colors.
So, it's just really good for color inspiration
on color palettes.
All right, and then whenever I need graphic
design inspiration, I have a few sites that
I always go to.
One is Pinterest.
If you don't have a Pinterest account by now,
you really should get one, especially if you're
a designer.
There is just so much really great work out
there.
We'll just search for graphic designs, and,
right off the bat we have some really awesome
work to look at.
You can get way more specific and choose something
like brochures, and then you get a lot of
really great stuff.
Pinterest is really great for inspiration.
I'm sure if you're a designer, you already
know about this one.
Another one that is right up there for inspiration
is Behance.
And, I actually have a little bit worse results
on Behance, because Pinterest is sort of curated.
The most popular graphics get shown a lot,
and then the least popular don't.
But on Behance, anyone can post anything on
Behance.
They also do have curated galleries, and you
can still search, but a lot of times you'll
get some projects that aren't so great if
you search for really specific things, so
keep that in mind.
Pinterest will give you better results if
you're getting really specific, but Behance
has a lot of crazy creativity out there.
Those are my five sites and/ or extensions
that I wanted to talk to you about today.
If you have any sites that you really love,
please add a comment in the comment section
below.
And I will see you all next week for another
video.
Thanks!!!
