Watch and learn. Download and use. Here we show you which video tutorials, assets and templates were added for you in July and August. Especially in the illustrative area, there was a lot of new additions with over 300 illustrations, icons and backgrounds.
City full: our map updates
Ever heard of Schwaan, Abensberg or Pritzwalk? Now that we've added city locations to the map templates for Bavaria, Brandenburg/Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, we're probably more familiar with Germany's geography than ever before. Good for us.
But even better for you: In the completely revised map graphics, you can show and hide each individual city as you wish. Since the colors and sizes can also be adjusted and individual regions can also be switched on and off, you can use the templates to easily create exactly the map view you need. For example, for the masthead of your website. For displaying locations in brochures and flyers. Or as an illustrative element for your design.
And for your information: If we have not yet added cities to your federal state, we will continue to revise and expand our map packages and will let you know as soon as the next packages with cities are available.
For design connoisseurs: graphics and backgrounds
Oh yes, you want to put a gracefully drawn heart on a beautiful color gradient, design a menu or the logo for a restaurant, and then this: You can now find all the right graphics and backgrounds for these and many other occasions directly from us!
In one large food package, we serve up 190 (!) illustrations of a wide variety of food, drinks and other motifs that play a role in kitchens, bars, bakeries and restaurants. Fancy a coffee? Ice cream? Cake? Cake? Pastries? Fruit, vegetables or fruit? Whatever your designs desire: All graphics are available as PNG files as well as vector-based in AI, SVG and EPS format. The package is seasoned and flavored with 50 logo suggestions that you can freely edit. This gives you a complete menu of illustrations. Here is a selection of the available images:
Now that we've whetted your appetite, we'll gallantly fall back on the old saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and thus master the transition to the next new package: In the "Wedding, Heart & Romance" icon set, 100 love-themed symbols are ready for you. With illustrations of wedding couples, rings, lovebirds, honeymoon moments and much more! But why waste too many words when a picture says more than that and shows you all the graphics included:
So the graphics are ready - all that's missing is the right background. That's exactly what you'll discover as soon as you click through our pack of 25 backgrounds with modern and stylish color gradients. All color variants are available at a resolution of 300 dpi in three sizes of up to 5,000 px × 3,000 px. And because the backgrounds are available as JPG files, you can use them in all common graphics, layout and image editing programs. For social media posts. For brochures. For packaging. In short, for anything that requires a color background with wavy shapes.
A little digression: look at what you download before you download it
Before we get to the new video tutorials, presentation and application templates, here's a tip: you probably don't always need everything from the graphic and background packs mentioned above. So why download images of cakes, lovers and drinks if you're only looking for illustrations for a signpost?
To find the graphic you need in the packages mentioned above: Click on the eye icon in the preview images of the individual contents of a package. This will open a large preview image that shows you in detail what exactly is contained in the individual content.
Specialize or think outside the box: new tutorials
Once again, our new training courses invite you to specialize further in your area of expertise or to look beyond your own nose to other subject areas.
After Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS To Do and MS Project, we are now shedding light on two more Microsoft programs: OneNote and Visio. With the former, you can create a digital notebook to organize all your to-dos and appointments. With the other, you can work on diagrams and visualizations.
You can also spend many hours learning with our new tutorials on online marketing. Depending on what you have in mind, take a look at how to manage your newsletter marketing with Mailchimp. Get your Facebook marketing on track and then really get going with 30 Facebook marketing hacks. Or get tips and tricks for more success on YouTube and in online customer acquisition.
And speaking of thinking outside the box: Uwe Sawinski, our latest trainer on TutKit.com, will introduce you to programming with C# in his course. So even if you haven't heard much or only a little about data types, operators, loops and arrays: His training will help you get started. If you are already more familiar with C#, you can use the lessons to deepen your knowledge.
Show your best side: Presentation and application templates
If you follow our blog closely, you may remember that we launched our big offensive for presentation templates a few months ago. With the "Simplex" and "Score" designs, this has now come to an end for the time being. Of course, this doesn't mean that we won't be releasing new templates for PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote in the future. But for now, we believe that you will find what you are looking for in our category for presentation templates. A good place to start as soon as your next presentation is due and you want to insert your content quickly and easily into prepared slide layouts.
Finally, we also expanded our portfolio of application templates in July and August. The templates for the IT and medical professions are available in five color variants for editing in Word and InDesign. And while we're on the subject: In our interview with application coach Torsten Niermann, you can read about the role of well-prepared application templates in the age of online application forms.
But enough words now. We hope you enjoy our content and are already hard at work unlocking more packages for you. Let's go!