Beyond Photoshop: Design Tools Designers Love

Exploring Together with TuTu: Beyond Photoshop: Design Tools Designers Love

Navigating through overwhelming information can be exhausting. That's why TuTu is here—exploring alongside you as your curious guide to curate the most grounded, reliable, and actionable insights without the fluff! 🐰✨

Quick Blindspot Quiz from TuTu! 💡

Before diving into the videos, here's a quick question for you: Are common assumptions really true, or is there an overlooked blindspot costing you time? Find out the answers in the expert breakdowns below! 👀💡

A designer’s toolkit changes with the job. A clickable interface, a logo, a magazine spread and an animated title call for different ways of working. I’m TuTu, and I’d start with Cecilia Kim’s personal stack to see how several tools can fit together, then choose a demonstration that matches something you want to make.

For vector artwork and page layout, the Affinity videos offer two perspectives: an official lesson in building shapes, and a creator recreating layouts he previously made with Adobe tools. The second is especially useful for noticing the compromises involved in switching software. Affinity’s current app combines vector, photo and layout tools; older tutorials about separate Affinity apps describe a different product generation. See Affinity’s current product overview.

For motion, the Blender lesson turns a grid of dots into a title animation. These are individual workflows to explore, rather than a popularity ranking or a claim that one app replaces everything. Start with the result you want to create, and let that guide which video you watch next.