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If you’re a social media manager or a small business owner looking to supercharge your Facebook content strategy, then you’ve come to the right place.

Developing high-quality content for Facebook can be tough when you’re managing everything by yourself. It’s easy for big corporations with big budgets to design unique and beautiful content to grow their Facebook pages, but how can you afford the time to craft each post?

You don’t need to spend hours creating awesome content for your Facebook page. Try these Facebook mockup templates and you’ll be able to easily create a proper content strategy for your Facebook promotions without even having to hire a graphic designer.

What is a Facebook Cover or Post Mockup?

Professional graphic designers who work with social media designs, such as Facebook covers and post designs for businesses often use mockup templates when presenting their designs to clients.

Mockup templates let you show your Facebook covers and post designs in an environment that looks just like Facebook. This allows your clients to see how the covers and posts will look like when it’s uploaded to their business page.

Facebook cover and mockup templates are quite easy to work with. All you have to do is open the file in Photoshop and you’ll be able to place your own designs in the mockup with just a few clicks using the smart object layers in Photoshop.

Our Favorite Facebook Cover & Post Mockups

These are our favorite free and premium picks of all the Facebook cover and post mockups in this list.

We’re amazed at the number, and quality, of free fonts available today. Designers have an incredible choice of free fonts to choose from. So whether you’re looking for a serif, script, or sans-serif font, today’s collection of the best free fonts for designers has you covered!

Utilizing a great-looking font is a key part of making any type of design look more professional. Of course, you don’t always have to use premium fonts to achieve that same level of professionalism. If you can’t afford to spend money on premium fonts to make your designs look great, you can always turn to one of the thousands of free fonts.

This collection includes the best free script fonts, serif fonts, sans-serif fonts, decorative fonts, and much more to match any kind of design project you’re working on. Go ahead, scroll down and start downloading. Every font is free!

Unlimited Downloads of 500,000+ Serif, Script, Sans-Serif Fonts & More

If you’re looking for high-end results and you want your font to stand out, it’s a good idea to choose from one of the many affordable premium fonts available through Envato Elements. Here are a few of our favorite fonts:

All the fonts you need, and many other design elements, are available for a monthly subscription. It starts at $17 per month and gives you unlimited access to a massive and growing library of 500,000+ items that can be downloaded as often as you need (stock photos too)!

Just looking for a stylish free font? No problem. Let’s dive into our collection of the best free fonts of 2019!

Potra – Free Futuristic Font

Potra is a modern typeface with a futuristic design. This font is ideal for crafting social media posts, T-Shirts, website headers, and more.

Milea Handwritten Brush Font

Milea is an elegant brush font with a natural handwritten style. It’s perfect for everything from book covers to wedding invitations, website designs, blogs, and much more.

Moon – Modern Rounded Typeface

Moon is a beautifully minimalist sans-serif font with rounded …

Beautiful wedding invitations can make a huge difference when it comes to your special day. Whether your wedding style is vintage, floral, modern, minimal, or hand made, one of these invitation templates will be perfect!

These invitation templates contain all the essentials including ‘Save the Date’, ‘RSVP’ and ‘Thank You’ notes in addition to a regular wedding invite. All the templates are easily editable with Photoshop, and comes in a print-ready format so you can instantly edit the text and send them out to your friends and family!

5 Tips for Designing a Wedding Invitation

Designing a beautiful wedding invitation is not that difficult, as long as you know the right techniques to follow. Here are a few tips that’ll help you design a more professional invitation.

1. Pick a Consistent Design

Choosing a theme for your wedding invitation design is one of the most important decisions you’ll have to make. Because all the other designs including save the date cards, table cards, thank you cards, menu, and everything else will use the same the visual style of the invitation.

Pick your design style carefully and make sure it matches the theme of your wedding. If you’re using templates, try to pick up a bundle that has matching templates for all wedding card designs.

2. Choose the Right Font Combination

The titles and the text take the center stage of every wedding invitation. As a result, your choice of font for the design will matter more than anything else.

It’s best to use two different fonts, one for the titles and the other for paragraphs. While script and handwritten fonts are a popular choice for wedding invitation designs, you can also use serif fonts depending on the theme of your wedding.

3. Highlight the Important Parts

Give extra attention to the titles, venue, dates, and name sections of your wedding invitations. These are the main parts of the entire design. Find the right font size that highlights them without taking the attention away from other elements.

4. Add Some Personality

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Retouching and enhancing portrait photos is a time-consuming task, and starting from scratch with every photo can be frustrating. Using a portrait Photoshop Action can save time, and give you a beautiful result with a few clicks. Let’s dive into some of the best portrait Photoshop Actions available today.

These Photoshop Actions help you save time and improve your workflow when editing a portrait photo. You can use them to instantly retouch photos, add makeup, enhance colors, add effects, adjust toning, and much more with just a single click. Say hello to a faster, simpler workflow (and some impressive end results!). And if you’re looking for more advice and guidance on using these, our Photoshop Actions feature is a great place to start!

3 Tips for Editing Portrait Photos

If you’re new to editing portrait photos, these tips will help you get a better understanding of how the editing process works.

1. Try to Use RAW Images

As you know, JPG is a file format that uses compression to try and reduce the size of your images while preserving the quality of the image. As a result, the JPG file format sacrifices some data and quality elements captured by the sensor of your camera in exchange for convenience.

This is why most professional photographers use the RAW file format. This format captures photos in much higher quality without affecting the quality of the image whatsoever. Even most modern smartphones now have the option to enable RAW file format.

Use it whenever you can to capture high-quality images so when you edit them in Photoshop, you’ll have a much better and uncompressed image to work with.

2. Master the Art of Toning

Toning is the process of adjusting the color balance, brightness, and contrast, and saturation levels to achieve the perfect balance in your photos. This process usually differs from one photo to another based on certain conditions like lighting conditions and camera settings. When it comes to portraits, this also applies to skin toning as well.

Whichever process you follow …

Using watercolor backgrounds and textures, with a watercolor painting effect, is a trend that took the world of design by surprise. These unique, colorful backgrounds can work beautifully with typography and simple design elements to give any design a fun edge.

The background is an important part of any design project. Whether it’s a website design, an app, graphic, or even a slideshow, the background is the foundation that helps you highlight the core content of a design. Which is why should always be careful when choosing a background for your designs.

To show you how great these backgrounds can look, we’ve handpicked a set of the best watercolor backgrounds and textures you can use for various kinds of projects — all of which can be downloaded and used in your own projects!

Our Favorite Watercolor Backgrounds

These are our favorite top picks of the entire list featuring both premium and free backgrounds.

The recent Apple keynote event unveiled a series of new iPhones. For designers, this means it’s time to update the old mockups on your websites, portfolios, and presentations. To help you out, we handpicked a set of iPhone XS mockups along with XS Max and XR mockups.

Keeping your websites and portfolios up-to-date is an important part of staying relevant and maintaining the user experience. Imagine what your audience might feel when they visit your website and see screenshots of apps and websites shown on a set of outdated iPhone mockups. Even when you’re presenting a design to a client, you should always aim to impress.

With the help of these easy to use iPhone XS mockups, you’ll be able to give a refreshed look to your presentations and showcase your screenshots and designs like a true professional.

Our Favorite iPhone Mockups

If you don’t have the time to check out our entire list, these top picks will help save time. These are our favorite premium and free iPhone mockups.

Sketch is a unique app that offers amazing features and functionality for creating app UI designs and mockups. Creating an effective UI for an application requires time, detailed attention, and—most importantly—an idea to get started with!

In order to streamline the design process for creating your next app interface, we’ve collected the best Sketch UI templates and materials that you can use for your next app project.

All these packs come with hundreds of UI design elements and can be easily implemented in your design. Enjoy!

How To Install a Sketch Template

Installing a Sketch template is quite easy. In fact, it doesn’t really involve any installation at all. Here’s how easy it is.

1. When you download a Sketch template, it will usually arrive in a .ZIP file. Extract the files in this ZIP file.
2. Inside the extracted folder, you’ll find a Sketch file.
3. Simply double-click on the Sketch file to open it in the Sketch app.

That’s it! Once the file is opened in Sketch, you can edit, copy, and customize the template however you like.

For example, if you’ve downloaded a UI kit for iOS, you’ll now be able to easily create new artboards and copy or import elements, symbols, blocks, and icons from the UI kit quite easily onto your artboard to create new UI interfaces of your own.

Our Favorite Sketch Templates

There are many amazing Sketch templates on our list but these are our most favorite templates of them all.

Whether you’re starting from scratch and building a custom template, or have a PowerPoint template you’ve downloaded and want to customize, knowing how to edit a PowerPoint template is a great skill to have in your kit.

We’re going to walk you through editing a PowerPoint template step-by-step, explaining all the PowerPoint terminology along the way!

If you like the presentation template we are using here—Creativa—you can get it from Envato Elements. It’s a great multi-purpose template that’s great for all types of presentations.

PowerPoint Slide Layouts

First, a little terminology.

PowerPoint calls individual slide templates “slide layouts,” and the full template is the “master slide layout.” This little tidbit comes in handy if you have ever to use documentation or help files.

The slide theme is all of the stuff that’s unique to a set of slide layouts, including colors, fonts, effects or transitions and backgrounds.

Placeholders are all the boxes for specific types of content on each slide. You’ll know these because the containers have dotted lines and often contain text or icons that tell you to “place an image or text here”.

Each template includes all of the above with a set of slide layouts for specific needs. You can find all the different slide choices available for your theme under Home Layout. (You can also find it under View Slide Master.)

How to Edit a PowerPoint Template

Now that you know what you’re looking at in PowerPoint, you can start to edit the template. We’ll look at all of the changes you can make to the slide master so you can go from a templated presentation to something that feels a little more custom.

Going down the PowerPoint template route is a great option for most people. The best advice is to pick a template you really like, to start with slides for most of the content elements you will need, and then adjust colors and fonts for your brand. You should also remove slide types that you don’t need to make the deck easier …

Contrary to popular belief, condensed and narrow fonts don’t make your text cramped or crowded. You just have to know the appropriate time and place to use the font. Condensed fonts are widely used these days for headlines and portraying bold messages, and when deployed in the right place, they can give stunning impact!

It takes a lot of testing and experimenting to find the perfect font for a design. This process can be costly at times. The good news is you can download all the fonts in this list for a single price when you subscribe to Envato Elements.

What is a Condensed or Narrow Font?

A condensed or a narrow font is a typeface that features characters with narrow widths but it also refers to fonts with taller character designs as well. Condensed fonts also have much narrower space between characters than a regular font.

While many designers recommend not to use condensed fonts in body text, these fonts are a popular choice in designing large headlines and titles, especially in posters, website headers, banners, and even in book covers and business cards.

Our Favorite Condensed Fonts

There are many great narrow fonts on our list. To help you find a great font quickly, we picked our favorites from the list.

Brush, script, and calligraphy fonts can add a touch of elegance to your design. They’re stylish, flowing, and full of character! We’ve picked some of the best examples of these typefaces to add to your collection.

Whether you’re looking for a precise and decorative script font or a bold brush typeface that needs to grab the reader’s attention, we’ll have something for you here. Each of these fonts is beautifully crafted to add character to your next design project, perfect for logos, lettering, clothing design, posters, flyers, quotes, and so much more.

What Are Script, Brush & Calligraphy Fonts?

All these typefaces have similarities, but each of these styles is unique in a different way. Before we dive into the fonts themselves, let’s quickly outline the difference between them.

Calligraphy Fonts

Calligraphic script fonts aim to mimic the style of traditional calligraphy writing. Some have connecting letter designs, and some don’t, but they all have the type of character you’d expect from a hand-written piece of calligraphy.

Script Fonts

Script fonts are a traditional typeface choice, referencing back to formally written styling in the 17th century. They have a flowing, connected style, and most characters adjoin another with a connecting stroke. They can roughly be separated into formal script fonts and casual script fonts. The former is more traditional, and the latter mimic a more quickly written, informal style.

Brush Fonts

These often have a much heavier weight, to look similar to letterforms that have been painted with a brush. They have the same connected, flowing style as calligraphy or script fonts, but their block-style makes them more suited for uses where you need a bigger impact!

Historea – Modern Handlettered Brush Font

This unique brush font comes with a hand-lettered design that is guaranteed to add a personal touch to various types of designs, including greeting cards, website designs, social media posts, and much more.

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Blink Stones – Creative Brush Font

Blink Stones is one of a kind creative and quirky brush font that is …