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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 2026-10-20

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 currently participates in the following affiliate programs:

Udemy Affiliate Program (managed by Impact). Commissions on Udemy course purchases.
Envato Affiliates (managed by Impact). Commissions on Envato Elements subscriptions and individual Envato Market product sales.

We may join other programs in the future. When we do, we will add them to this list before any of their links appear on the site. Links to products or services not listed here, such as Affinity, Photopea, Domestika or Skillshare, are ordinary links that earn us nothing.

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". 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 affiliate and sponsorship offers from brands whose products did not fit this site or its readers. The affiliate income we earn comes from products we would recommend regardless of whether the affiliate program existed.

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