Here’s how to automate edits in Photoshop by combining the Object Selection tool with Actions. Open the Actions panel (Window > Actions). Click Create New Action and start recording. In the Options bar at the top, click the Select People button. Photoshop will analyze the person and provide a list of detected parts (hair, eyes, […]

Mark Heaps talks with designer and digital artist Orlando Arocena about his process, his artwork, and life as a working artist.

In this CreativePro Conversation, Mark Heaps discusses the role of a presentation designer with Shannon Hollingsworth of Oracle.

Learn how to set up effects ahead of time, so that transformations occur automatically as you draw in Illustrator

Learn how to easily choose and apply a color’s complement in Illustrator and how it differs from simply choosing that color’s inverse.

Learn a quick and easy way to change the appearance of multiple icons all at once in Illustrator using the Appearance panel.

Mark Heaps shows how to craft presentations in InDesign that are both beautiful and memorable.

I’ve long been obsessed with how things work. Sometimes I think maybe designers are secretly engineers who don’t like math. Maybe you can relate? Like so many of my peers, I was inspired by designers like Paul Rand, Saul Bass, or David Carson. As I mature in my experience as a creative I realize that […]