Design Cuts Courses

How to Add Different Materials to Drawings in Procreate With Nathan Brown

Learn to shade rocks, water, and trees in Procreate by layering textured brushes, selection tools, light, shadows, and highlights.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Make an Overlay Effect in Photoshop With Anna Aspnes

Learn to build a layered Photoshop photo overlay by blending images with clipping masks, transfers, brushes, textures, and design principles.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Create a Comic Strip in Photoshop and Illustrator with Scott Serkland

Create a four-panel comic strip by developing a joke, arranging panels, building characters and worlds, and finishing digital artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Typography Affects Advertisements with Asha Mody

Learn how typography shapes emotion, readability, and visual impact in advertisements through font choice, leading, color, contrast, and rule-breaking.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Typography Masterclass in Photoshop with Khara Plicanic

Explore Photoshop’s advanced type features, from kerning and tracking to ligatures, glyphs, layered fonts, catchwords, and creative baseline shifts.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Personalised Presentations Using Fonts with James Martin

Use custom and handwritten type to turn letters into shapes, build a logo, and present it in an Instagram tile.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Draw a Beautiful Butterfly in Procreate with Claudia Riveros

Learn to draw and color a realistic monarch butterfly in Procreate using symmetry, pressure-sensitive brushes, and layered shading.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tips for Mixed Media Painting in Fresco with Nathan Brown

Explore mixed-media painting in Adobe Fresco through live watercolor brushes, color blending, layered textures, and a realistic-yet-abstract cardinal painting.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Use Assets to Enhance Images in Photoshop with Hazel Meredith

Enhance photographs in Photoshop by layering textures, masks, lighting effects, and borders to create dramatic, customized images.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Use Overlays to Create Realistic Lighting with Denise Love

Transform flower and portrait photos with light overlays, textures, and subtle color effects for whimsical yet natural-looking results.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tips and Tricks for Editing in Lightroom with Tamer Ghoneim

Learn to edit photos in Lightroom’s Develop module using presets, tonal and color controls, local adjustments, sharpening, transformations, and lens correction.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Draw a Cute Bunny Character in Procreate with Lisa Glanz

Draw a cute bunny character in Procreate using dry media brushes, layered color, texture, shadows, and final details.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Paint Watercolor Florals in Procreate With Abbie Nurse

Paint loose watercolor florals in Procreate by building layered botanical compositions with masks, backgrounds, negative space, and color adjustments.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Make Brushes in Photoshop with Khara Plicanic

Learn to create custom Photoshop brushes from graphics, text, scratch-built shapes, and photographs, then use color dynamics and texture for expressive designs.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Make Social Carousels Using InDesign with Gareth David

Create efficient Instagram and LinkedIn carousel posts in InDesign by setting multi-page canvases, organizing layers, adding content, and exporting ready-to-upload files.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video