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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 2026-04-24

Plain-English summary: Some links on this site are affiliate links. When you click them and buy something, we earn a small commission. You pay the same price either way. We only recommend products we use or have vetted with working designers. Affiliate income does not influence our editorial choices.

The programs we participate in

This site participates in (or applies to participate in) the following affiliate programs:

Adobe Affiliate Program (managed by Partnerize). Commissions on Creative Cloud, Adobe Express, Document Cloud, and Adobe Stock subscriptions.
Envato Affiliates (managed by Impact). Commissions on Envato Elements subscriptions and individual Envato Market product sales.
Skillshare Affiliate Program (managed by Impact). Commissions on new Skillshare paid memberships.
Domestika Affiliate Program (managed by Acceleration Partners). Commissions on first-time Domestika course purchases.
Udemy Affiliate Program (managed by Rakuten). Commissions on Udemy course purchases.
Amazon Associates. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.

How we identify affiliate links

Every affiliate link on this site is tagged with the HTML attribute rel="sponsored nofollow", per Google's 2020 link-attribute guidance. Links to our own pages and to other sites we are not paid to recommend do not carry these attributes.

Where space permits we also call out affiliate links explicitly with labels like "Partner" or "Buy on Amazon". Comparison guides include a top-of-page disclosure box reminding readers which links earn us a commission.

Editorial independence

We do not accept payment to recommend products. We do not write paid reviews. We have turned down "sponsored content" offers from several brands whose products we tested and decided not to recommend. The affiliate income we earn comes from products we would recommend regardless of whether the affiliate program existed.

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