5 Digital Designer Christmas Present Ideas That You Can Make At Home

Dane — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:37:03 +0000

Stuck on what to get loved ones for the holidays? Well if you have a knack for the Adobe Suite, here are 5 simple ideas they are sure to love!

Traced Family Portrait

Here’s a nice sentimental one your family is sure to love. Adobe Illustrator is great for making simple but effective pieces of art just like this. Make sure to add just enough detail to each family member so everyone can say “hey, that’s me!”

Personalized Movie Poster

Everyone wants a movie all about them, so why not make it a reality! It can be any type of movie you make a poster for, maybe a horror movie, or a rom-com for that special someone. Adobe Photoshop is perfect for this, and you can add inside jokes and funny pictures all over.

Stickers

Got someone with a favorite hobby or perhaps a niche interest? Buy some sticker paper, and make them some stickers! This is great for those with hobbies that may not get much merchandise online. Think up some fun ideas or jokes, and print them off on some sticker paper for them to use as they please. I used Adobe Illustrator for this as well for that cartoony feel, but hand drawn is great too!

Animations

This one may be a little bit more time consuming, but absolutely worth it. A cute animation that you can play and send to them will surely be a 5 star present, and they can keep it on their phone for a long time to come. Adobe Animate or (if you’re feeling brave) Adobe Photoshop are great tools for this.

Collage

This is perhaps the most open ended, but personalized one so far. This can be anything, perhaps a collection of your favorite pictures of you and them, a collection of pictures from things they love, a scene you put together from multiple photos of your cat, the skies the limit on this one. Photoshop is a great tool for this.

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How to Create a Vintage Travel Poster in 5 Easy Steps

Dane — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:42:49 +0000

Step 1: Pick a Reference Image

Using Adobe Illustrator, I pick an image that I’d like to be the focus of my work, this is what I’m going to use to trace everything, and I’m going to set the opacity to 50% so I can see my work underneath it.

Step 2: Tracing the Main Pieces

From here, you’ll want to take the pen tool, and going around all the biggest sections with a midtone color. Here I’m carving out the hills, the helmet, the mountains, and the sky. The shadows, highlights and details are going to be overlaid on top afterward. For the sky, I used a gradient from dark blue to light blue, keeping this a fairly neutral color, as I will be adding a lot on top of it.

Step 3: Shadows and Highlights

This is where your poster will really start to come to life. It is quite a lengthy step, but try not to rush it, as it will have a very large effect on the product as a whole. Use your reference for this, and make bold highlights and shadows. The style is simple, so don’t feel like you need to add too many layers here.

Step 4: Add Big Bold Text

This is where you’ll finally establish this as a travel poster instead of stylistic artwork. Bold text for the location and a nice cursive font for the word ‘visit’ will capture the genre here. A drop shadow helps sell the effect as well.

Step 5: Final Details

By this point, the poster looks great, but I like to go back through and add some nice details here and there to give it a finished look. The biggest addition is the grass in the foreground, which I mostly copy and pasted in groups and in different colors, the clouds in the background, and the space ship as well. And just like that, you’re done! I made this one as a Christmas present for a friend, and I highly recommend it.

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