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so i'm gonna run through the resources that i use online for free in my graph design workflow
each and every day and each and every week and they're in no particular order so firstly we
have unsplash which is in my opinion the best high quality place to get stock images and stock photos
the quality is really amazing considering all of the downloads are free to use i use these
pictures a lot for video creation but also things to do with my photoshop workflow and like i said
it's probably the highest quality place for images that you can get for free and then we're going to
move from unsplash to unblast which is the place that i personally go to get mock-ups these days
there's a huge range of ever expanding mock-ups on blast as well as other things like fonts and stuff
like that and templates but i do specifically go to unblast just for their mockups alone and i
use mock-ups a lot for presenting logo designs to clients but also i do use them sometimes my video
creations right here on youtube and like i said there are some fonts on on blast but the majority
of my fonts are not sourced from a blast there are three different websites i find myself returning
to each and every time to grab myself free fonts and those are the font font squirrel and then also
google fonts obviously google fonts have all the fonts that you can use for commercial use online
but when it comes to dafont and also fontsquirrel i like to use these settings
where i'm only going to be filtering out those fonts that are completely free for commercial use
i don't want to have any legal or licensing issues later down the road so these are really good
websites to get some awesome and useful free funds for commercial use now when it comes to vectors
free pick is a really awesome place to grab some outstanding and some useful vectors but also psds
as well again i filter everything out that's free so you don't have to sign up for a premium account
and with freepik you have a limited amount that you can download for free however you can always
sign in to google or different google accounts to extend how many times you can
download free content in one day but yeah free pick is really awesome for those who want some
decent quality vectors but now when it comes to recording my screen
for say illustrator tutorials i use something called quicktime which comes free with my mac
and that produces a really high quality and crisp screen recording experience now many people do
ask me what do i use to record my screen and that is it i use quicktime so if you're ever
thinking about making videos or anything of that nature quicktime probably is one of the best ways
to go and for me it was free on my mac another freebie that i use on my workflow is invoice home
this makes invoicing clients very very easy and fast and it is free up until a certain point
i think that is a thousand dollars per month or something like that but when you've actually
invoiced more than a thousand dollars you will need to sign up and it's only about five euros
per month anyway or you could just make different accounts and keep using different accounts to
ensure you have a free experience with these websites now what i personally edit my videos
on what i use something called davinci resolve which is again free you can do things such as
video editing motion graphics and also audio editing as well for something that's free
this is a hugely powerful program and i use it on every single video i make there are other
times i hire someone to design complex motion graphics and they often work in after effects
but yeah davinci resolve is completely free and speaking of footage or stock footage for that
matter i often find myself going to somewhere called mix kit which when they first came onto
the scene everything was free and their videos are very very high quality but these days they have
some of the videos for free and some of them are a premium account linked to envato elements
but the other place i use for stock footage is pixels video this is another great place
to get 100 free royalty-free stock footage for your next project and i find i use it
quite often and if you guys want some really cool and free illustrations i suggest going to undrool
they have quite a wide expanse of illustrations there for you to grab completely for free
and you can just use the search bar to find what you're looking for so there was a very quick
rundown of the things that i use in my workflow that are completely free and as you can tell i've
covered pretty much every base of graphic design apart from things like adobe illustrator which
i personally prefer using over things that are free but you can check all of these websites and
resources linked down description box below and if you want to learn something else about graphic
design do click the video on screen but until next time guys design your future today peace