New digital theme and video explainers every month!

Our theme for April is eLearning creation.  Join us as we create an online learning module using Articulate Rise 360, with video explainers suitable for beginners.

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Latest Posts

A robot wearing a graduation cap uses a holographic computer in a modern classroom with charts displayed on a screen.

Rapid elearning content creation: Articulate RISE 360 explainer 3 of 6

Learn how to add an interactive timeline block to a Rise 360 micro learning project.

A robot wearing a graduation cap sits at a desk, taking an online course titled "AI FOR BEGINNERS" on a large screen.

Rapid elearning content creation: Articulate RISE 360 explainer 2 of 6

Explore Rise 360's content blocks and add text and images to the project.

An orange robot wearing a graduation cap sits at a desk with a tablet in a classroom promoting an online AI course.

Rapid elearning content creation: Articulate RISE 360 explainer 1 of 6

Discover rapid microlearning with Articulate Rise 360 in this first part of a beginner-friendly 6-part series.

A laptop with colorful app icons, rockets, and arrows emerging from the screen on a blue and yellow background.

New month – New freebies and deals!

Discover the top creative asset deals and freebies for April 2026, including asset bundles for Unity and a FREE video editing tool!

Don't miss our best from image editing month!

Image editing: PaintShop Pro explainer 2 of 5

Let's open, rotate and crop an image.

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 4 of 5

Let's add text to an image.

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 1 of 5

Let's open, resize and save a logo image.

Welcome to image editing month!

Image editing month begins!

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 5 of 5

Let's create a new image with a single-colour background.

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 1 of 5

Let's open, resize and save a logo image.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 4 of 5

Let's add text to an image.

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 3 of 5

Let's open an image and apply basic colour correction.

A person in a red hoodie uses a laptop showing a mountain scene with climbers; snowy peaks appear in the background.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 5 of 5

Learn how to create an image with a single-color background in GIMP with our waffle-free explainers. Perfect for beginners!

A computer screen with flowers on it.

Video editing: Vegas Pro explainer 3 of 5

Learn how to trim video clips, add fades, and cross-fades using Vegas Pro. Perfect for beginners!

A laptop displays a pixelated explosion, with colorful beams and music notes extending outwards, set against a pink background.

New month – New freebies and deals!

Discover the best creative asset deals for December 2025! From 'low poly' bundles at Fanatical to Black Friday at the Unity Asset Store, we've got you covered.

New month – New freebies and deals!

Every month we round-up the best freebies and deals on creative software!

Beginning 3D: Explainer 3 of 8

Create a coffee mug in Tinkercad

Websites in focus

In focus: Envato Network

Need creative assets? See what ENVATO has to offer!

Websites in focus: aescripts.com

Let's look at what aescripts.com has to offer!

Latest Posts

A robot wearing a graduation cap uses a laptop in a classroom with an AI machine learning lesson on the screen.

Welcome to ‘Creating microlearning using Articulate Rise 360’ !

A laptop displaying a video editing program with an image of Stonehenge on the screen against a yellow background.

Video editing: Vegas Pro part 5 of 5

A laptop displays a colorful video editing interface with a flower video and various editing panels on the screen.

Video editing: Vegas Pro explainer 4 of 5

A laptop displays video editing software with colorful flowers and audio waveforms on the screen.

Video editing: Vegas Pro explainer 2 of 5

A laptop screen displays video editing software with a sunflower field image on a yellow background.

Video editing: Vegas Pro explainer 1 of 5

Illustration of a laptop displaying video editing software with a Stonehenge scene on the screen.

Video editing: Adobe Premiere part 5 of 5

Back to the classics

Summer of Digital Love: Retro Gamer Magazine

Summer of digital love: Retro Gamer Magazine

Retro Pixels: The 2012 British Video Games Awards

Happy New Year and welcome to pixels.cool! Step inside to start learning and creating 🙂

Summer of Digital Love: Charley Says…

Charley Says...

Retro Curio: New Retro 🙂

Can YOU guess the object?