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 is selling stock photos and stock vectors there are tons of stock sites out there and if you can create vectors with illustrator or take them kind of awesome pictures with your camera you can sell those the Shutterstock Fotolia i stock big stock one two three RS dreams time deposit photos can stock ala me and list goes on those are the big ones now here's the hard part you don't get paid very much when someone buys your stock photo for the most part you can but usually you'll get about 25 cents to 35 cents per stock photo download and at first I was a little hard for me to swallow but after time you sell so many of a certain photo that it ends up being worth your time so that's what I'm talking about when I say it starts really slow but over time you can make pretty good money number two create full designs and sell your art on products the sites I think you have for this are picks it in Vasil RedBubble I'm a member of red bubble and while I haven't made it

 money is a nice little amount of pocket change the images that I have out there will continue to sell over time again on those your ket is not going to be very high so if someone buys a twenty five dollar t-shirt you'll probably get it about three dollars and the reason for that is you don't have to deal with printing a t-shirt shipping it dealing with a customer it's all done for you so all you have to do is create the artwork and then sell it and resell it several times there's no limit to how many times you can sell your artwork number three get an empty shop I'm having pretty good success on my Etsy right now I do digital downloads so it actually is passive you can go the active route with se where you create a physical product and shove it to someone but I'm going to do passive so I do only digital

 downloads through Etsy one thing about se if you do physical products you have to worry about restrictions they will only allow handmade items and vintage items so if you're getting something mass-produced as it's not for you number four a self stuff on your own website I haven't started this one personally but I plan to start up my own website maybe have some products for sale on there eventually some ideas for you you could do hand lettered quotes those also sell great on Etsy you can do web templates email templates and graphic packs and bundles and this is just the name of you so if you have other ideas maybe I'm not thinking of go ahead and stick them on your own website and then promote the heck out of it on social media okay number five ebooks if you really know some part of graphic design so well maybe you know how to use illustrator better than anyone else you can create an e-book about how to use illustrator and teach other people what you know that they probably don't I actually don't know of a place to sell you go on the line unless the Amazon but you can always take that out by your own website and sell it on there just to remember to promote it so those are my five tips for passive income for graphic designers and I hope you got something out of this and we'll make a move towards your own design business if you have any

 questions or comments please leave this in the comment section below and if you like this video click like if you want to see more videos like this I plan on doing a little more leaning towards stock photography and passive income

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  hey! guys it's GraphicTemple.com from yes I'm a designer let me show you a new feature in adobe illustrator CC 2019 so this has to be my favorite new feature in this version the gradients in the previous versions were already working really well and we obviously have the gradient mesh option which I have in this case as well you can see all of these shapes have gradient meshes on them which means that if I use the direct selection tool I can move these nodes around and you can see how the colors are starting to mix differently now this is an amazing feature and I know that a lot of professional illustrators would use it all the time I do as well

                           but finally now we have a new option which is a new take on creating this type of illustrations so let me show you this I'm just going to turn on this other shape that I prepared which is not a gradient mesh so this is just a simple shape at this moment but what we will be doing here is to add a gradient on it and the way I'm going to do it is by going through the window menu select gradient that brings us to the gradient panel and notice that we have the new option here next to the original linear and radial gradient now we have also this third category called free form gradient and that's the new feature so let me click on that and as soon as I click on it is going to automatically assign a few pinpoints on the gradient so you can think of these as control points these control points can be moved around freely and easily and you can see a live update of how your new gradient is going to look like I just love this feature it's more similar to the puppet work that was introduced in the previous version but now that we can use these pins also for gradients it's just amazing and of course you can add new points as well as easily as that and you can move them freely around and you can see how cool effects you can get very quickly but of course there's more so if you want you can also double click on any

 these and switch to a different color so I can take something completely different and then we can also increase the area that it covers it's called spread which you can access again by click and dragging this little black point and then now we can see it has a reach that is less smoothing transition but it covers a bigger area with that selected color another really cool feature is that while you are selecting colors for your gradients and this actually applies to all types of gradients finally now we have the eyedropper tool as well available so I can pick a color from another design so I can check very quickly which color would suit past this part of my gradient and then I can just leave it at that so having the feature might seem like a small thing but again it's just so much more convenient to work with gradients in general just by having that option there now if you don't see the nodes or control points on your gradient or free form gradient make sure you press G to get back to your gradient tool and that way you should be able to see them again but they're still not all there's more you can even add control lines instead of points so just select lines here on the top or from the gradient panel and all you have to do is to start drawing so let me just put my first point down but before I go any further I'm going to change the color of this to something like that and then notice that I will see a rubber band showing the line that is going to be created so if I click again there's my new point using again the previous color which is very smart but here comes the coolest thing if I keep drawing with this it's going to automatically curve this path and each of these color stops will be using my most recent color so because I created this is a line that means that the gradient is running along the edge of the shape now so this is a brilliant feature for shading shapes and in a much more intuitive way than it used to be with the gradient mesh

                                                so you can see I can select each of these points still and double click on them to change the color I can of course use color swatches or the eyedropper and I can very quickly assign different shading on them like this one as well I can make a bit darker and immediately it starts to feel that this shape has a bit more depth because this bottom area is darker than the top but of course you can still move these points around and notice how nicely all the other parts of the curve update so if I move this point around you can see both neighboring details updating again this behavior on the path actually comes from the curvature tool so think of this as the curvature tool use within a gradient to define your color stops and the

 transitions between them once again the freeform gradient is an amazing feature make sure you test it out because it's much more intuitive than the gradient mesh and it is just pure fun to work with and thanks a lot for watching I hope this was useful and if you want to find out more about all the new features released in this version for Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign make sure you check back on our site see you guys in the next one

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