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Hey what's up guys, Stephen Cults of Mac here and if you watched the recent MacBook
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Pro Spy Photos video, you may have noticed that we were sponsored by Graphicstock.com
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Well in this video I thought I'd take a quick few minutes to sit with you and give
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you a guided tour to show you what it has to offer, so you can take full advantage of
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that free 7 day trial. If you haven't signed up already, head over to Graphicstock.com forward slash x forward
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slash cult of mac, then come back to this video. Let's get started
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So once you've signed up to Graphicstock, you'll find the homepage houses a selection
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of new photos, illustrations and vectors. These are great for inspiration if you're not quite sure how to start your next project
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To find what you're looking for, you can either type keywords and phrases into the search bar, or browse through individual categories if you're not quite sure what you need yet
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I'm going to go ahead and choose photos for the sake of this tour, but the other two
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categories work the same way. All of the resources within Graphicstock are 100% royalty free, so if you're a graphic
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designer who's getting commissioned for work, you don't have to worry about complicated licenses
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No one's going to come after you later trying to sue you for using their work
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Before working at Cult of Mac, I worked for a graphic design and printing house where
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deadlines were tight, meaning we would all turn to pre-made vectors and illustrations
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to customise and adapt to our work to save time. Or if you're working for a client who doesn't have their own photos for say, a menu, this
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is ideal also. Plus it happens a lot more often than you think
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Once you've chosen the type of resource you want, you can then define a category, whether
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it has an alpha channel, so you can literally drag and drop the resources in your design
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masterpiece, whether it's a PSD, portrait or landscape and even use a hex value to determine
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the colour of the resource to fit your requirements, which is a super nice time saver
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If you want to find something direct, for example an image of a burger for the menu you're working on, simply type it straight into the search bar and it will pull up tons
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of high quality professional looking images and vectors for you to use
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These instantly elevate the quality of your work, instead of using someone's crappy photo taken on a potato camera
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All of this also works on the mobile site, so if you're editing photos on your iPhone
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or iPad, no problem, you can save photos to edit and mix with ease
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As an extra tip if you're just getting into motion graphics or video editing, you can use the vectors and illustrations for video graphics by either importing the PSDs or illustrator
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files straight into your editor of choice if it supports it, or save it as a PNG with
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an alpha and animate it into your videos. So there you have it, a quick tour of the Graphicstock website, which you can get a
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100% free 7 day trial by heading over to graphicsstock.com forward slash x forward slash cult of mac
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The trial has no limitations, so you can download and play with as many resources as you like
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completely free. So it's definitely worth a try. If you've already signed up for your free 7 day trial, make sure to hit that like button
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down below and don't forget to hit subscribe so you don't miss a single video from cult
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of mac. I'll catch you in the next one
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