i'm very excited to bring you today's video because i get asked
this a lot so as i'm sure you can tell from the title i am
going to show you how to improve your graphic design
work you know what it's not even just graphic design work it's creative works
it's videos it's a bunch of things just
how to improve your creative works in general so the lovely people over
envato elements have actually sponsored this video and asked me to share with
you their incredible let me tell you i
am obsessed with their site so it's an all-in-one place to get any
elements you need ever basically so i'm just going to show
you it and what i'm going to do is sort of the aim is to
improve my own portfolio so you can see firsthand
envato elements products working doing their bit i will link envato down
in the description and i will chat a bit more about it as
we go on here you can see at the top everything that they do so straight up
you have stock videos video templates you can get music you
can get sound effects you can get graphics
templates which is the one i use the most we will get into that you get
graphics as well so backgrounds textures illustrations
icons things like that presentation templates
you've also got a ton 50 million plus stock photos available on envato
elements and then of course some fonts so i mean
that's a very quick summary there are a lot of things that they
do you can kind of see them all here there's 43
881 products added this week alone the things that i like to use it for
mainly are product mock-ups and improving my creative outlets
outlays my creative things i have gathered a bunch of
my recent projects so we've got a poster that i've created
it's just an a4 print that i sell on my shop soul and fire
then i have a cadburys dairy milk redesign if you watch the video you'll
know i have the ksi dissimulation album cover
redesign so i did two different covers i have a
portrait vector illustration of a fellow youtuber
emma she's amazing um a greeting card design
a logo design and then finally a um room illustration so i actually have
a few collections in my account so if i go
up here go to collections i've been on envato elements for maybe
like two months now actually and i've sort of started to gather
different selections of things that i like and that i will most likely use in
the future you can like pin them um and save them so i have
instagram um templates so for soul and fire when i released new products i
wanted to shout about it on my stories so envato elements has these kind of
things look it's got like pre-made up story templates
you can download it straight away so you literally just
once you've got the full subscription click download
i'm gonna make a new project so i can sort of categorize everything
so soul and fire everything comes with a simple commercial license you can kind
of read into it but it's really accessible and adaptable
so i'm gonna just search greeting card mock-up i have missed the p
good job envato knows what i'm talking about hey so we have
graphic templates presentation mock-ups so whether you're doing like a
powerpoint or whatever you've got them graphics themselves
fonts photos 3d things web template templates templates
add-ons cms templates and stock videos so there's a lot there's a lot to choose
from so we are gonna head straight into graphics
and find myself a greeting card markup that i like the look of so this is gonna
be good for when i'm creating like a new greeting card and i want to see what it
will actually look like in person and it's also good to mock up
things to put on my instagram page because there's only
so many ways i can take photos of a greeting card you know
i think i'm gonna go with just this one greeting card mock-ups
sometimes the mock-ups come with a few different views so as you can see this
one has like a front view and an inside view
i really like the look of this one of course i can save it so i can add it to
my collection but we're just gonna download it i've
also downloaded a bunch of other different things
so i'm gonna download a album cover and then i'll show you quickly the
like intro ideas and also the titles that you can use in final cut pro
and obviously you can get like music and sound effects so if you're like a video
editor it'll be really helpful for that kind of thing so
these are the different versions we've got like the sort of semi-open
card to fully open the card with the envelope
front and back we've got the whole selection open
closed back and then front and back i think what i'm going to just go with
for the purpose of this video i'm just going to go with the most basic one so
as you can see it's a photoshop file so i'm just going to double click it
and it will open photoshop this is where my laptop gets very noisy and doesn't
really know what to do with itself this is the mock-up file
and basically i can just click on either the front or the back
and replace it what i love particularly about envato is the fact that
everything is in one place and it's one subscription
knowing that i've got all the things i need in one place is
obviously super super helpful so i am just gonna drag in the greeting
card here so it should be almost the right size i
just need to size it up a little bit if i press the
right button that would help and then i just press
save and then like you would expect the card
is mocked up and ready to go it's that simple so
we're gonna move on to another one i'm gonna just quickly save that
so for this one i actually decided to go for a
vinyl because it means that the image can be a little bit bigger and what i
need to do basically is just change these little
files here on the right so if i double click
it takes me into just that file and all i need to do is drag
over um ksi's redesign make sure it's the right size
i'm going to hit save and then we have the image on there i do need to change
this i didn't actually make up a label in
them that video we'll just choose the
original the original cover because the lazy life
chose me as you can see now i have a very
sleek professional looking mock-up and as opposed to just putting
the album cover on my website like that is a flat image
you can't really visualize it as to what it's supposed to be so that's why i love
using mockups i use them a lot in my videos i use them a lot in my like
work and having the album cover like this demonstrating its actual purpose is
super super helpful so for the poster i thought i should
demonstrate how i i guess sell my products so i can't actually
show my products in all scenarios that's just physically impossible so if you go
onto my instagram for soul and fire which is my
little stationary shop you'll see that i have a few different product photos some
of which i have taken myself but i'm moving more into doing mock-ups
because it just saves so much time as you can see here
we have a big poster mock-up and it gives you an
idea of what it would look like in a home environment
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to click on this one and again
same principle it usually tells you in the file
where to place your own artwork so i'm just going to double click it and it's
in here and then we can drag in the artwork
it's almost the right size again i'm just going to size it up a little bit
close it and there we go we have the poster
in a real life situation and that looks a whole lot better again
rather than just including the flat image so we've done a few
mockups as you can see just by me quickly scrolling on the
website there are a lot to choose from there's different graphic templates as
well so if you're wanting to design a poster or design a
menu or a business card they have templates
in envato that you can download and adapt
to suit you so it's not just the mock-up side of things it's the actual design
itself which is really really cool um but what i'm going to do now is go
into some more like video editing things not a word i am
on final cut pro and i've downloaded a generator in envato and i've installed
it onto final cut pro it comes in like a zipped file and it had
some instructions on how to install it it took me like five minutes if that so
what i'm going to do is go into this little section and you can see this
little demonstration of what it's doing it's
got loads of graphics and then it pops up with a logo at the
end and what i'm gonna do is add into here the logo i created for emma or the
little portrait thing it could act as a cool little youtube
intro for her so um all we need to do is go
into logo image source and import a logo so i'm going to find
the image of emma and add that as the logo so i want to select that as the
source image background we're going to leave blank
for now tagline text will leave blank for now
you can change the font size the color um there'll be different settings in
each one and also the colors of the little graphics that pop up
basically i'm going to change those pinks to like
yellows and blues so i gave my laptop some time
to sort of process because it struggles with things i actually ended
up adding a few more yellow bits and i'm just going to play this through this
took me literally like not even 10 minutes
imagine if i made this from scratch i'd have zero chance
i'm gonna quickly just play it think of it with like music behind it
and then the cool colors and then like a nice little like bitching
and then emma's face pops up i think that's really really cool
there are so many different templates like this on envato there are
many many different final cut pro add-ons there's also adobe illustrator
templates and different graphic templates like in here
you can find print templates so if you are to design like
a menu or a poster rather than designing it from scratch
there are like pre-made sort of cool little designs that you can
download in like photoshop illustrator or word
but yeah um i hope you've enjoyed this little video i really enjoyed sort of
improving my portfolio showing you how to best display your
work how to improve it and i really love that everything is all
in one place within varto it was actually recommended to me a couple of
months ago by a fellow creative friend who's been in the
business for a long time and he swears by it so when envato actually
approached me to work together obviously i jumped at the chance it was very
exciting and i'm very happy to share it with you
guys so what i will do i will leave a link to envato in the description
along with a little bit more information the key
points everything that they have to offer
there's just endless things i could talk about i hope you enjoyed this video let
me know if you have any questions and i'll see you next week
for another one bye