EV safaris promise cleaner, quieter wildlife tours

Safaris can help you see nature, but they also tend to disrupt nature — the loud, smelly vehicles involved can disturb animals and hurt the environment in the process. They're quickly becoming less intrusive, however. Reutersnotes that the Kenyan-Swedish firm Opibus is converting diesel and gas safari vehicles in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve into electric models. 

The converted EVs are not only quieter, but don't rumble or spew foul odors that might alarm animals. Many of the other benefits of electric cars apply here, too. Opibus' conversions don't produce CO2 emissions, and the company claims that electric motors cut operating costs in half by ditching fuel (and, we'd add, the quirks of combustion engines).

Opibus is the only company performing these conversions in Kenya, and it has only electrified 10 vehicles so far. There are also practical challenges to deploying safari EVs. African electrical grids aren't always reliable, and charging an EV in a nature reserve isn't as simple as finding a public station. There's also the simple matter of range — safari companies can't necessarily afford hours of downtime to recharge vehicles in between tours.

Even so, it's easy to imagine EVs finding widespread adoption in Kenya, South Africa and other countries where safari tourism is vital. The less intrusive the vehicles are, the more likely it is that wildlife will continue unimpeded. That's good for both the animals and the tourists hoping to spot elephants and lions that might otherwise stay away.

The best Switch controllers for every player level

The Nintendo Switch is pretty popular, but its included Joy-Cons aren’t for everyone. Some players feel the detachable controllers are a bit small for their hands. Many players miss having a regular D-pad. Whatever your reasons for wanting to upgrade your Switch controller situation, know that there are alternatives — it’s just a matter of picking the one that fits your needs. We tested out a bunch of Switch controllers to see which are worth your money.

For casual gaming: Joy-Cons

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Honestly, there’s a lot to like about the included Joy-Cons. They come right in the box and can be separated from the system so two people can play. The system also includes a special gamepad grip so you can hold them in your hand like any standard controller. So if you are in fact, happy with your Joy-Cons, there’s no need to switch them out. Just tweak them a little depending on your needs. Find them a tad too small? FastSnail’s matte rubber shells can make them a little easier for large hands to hold, and Hori’s Analog Caps can make the thumb sticks grippier. 

Buy FastSnail grips at Amazon – $14Buy Hori analog caps at Amazon – $9

There’s really no good way to replace the Joy-Cons entirely with a third-party copy. Some Joy-Con-like controllers won’t connect wirelessly, while others lack key features like vibration or an NFC reader. But there are some tradeoffs that are worth it. For example, if you like to play a lot of 2D platformers in handheld mode, Hori’s D-pad controller will restore the beloved cross-shaped directional button to your gameplay. If you’re looking for something that’s also more comfortable in your hand, the company’s $50 Split Pad Pro is also worth a look. It has a D-pad on the left side and a more ergonomic grip than your standard set of Joy-Cons. But it also makes the entire assembled Switch a lot chunkier.

If you like to play your Switch with groups (or you’ve experienced the dreaded “drift” issue), chances are you’ve picked up one or two extra pairs of Joy-Cons. Which means you’re going to need a place to charge the spares. PowerA makes an excellent $25 charging station that can be plugged into your Switch dock (or any device with a USB port) and handles four Joy-Con-like controllers at once — that includes third-party gamepads as well as Nintendo’s own Switch-compatible NES controllers (see below).

Buy Hori D-pad controller at Amazon – $60Buy Split Pad Pro at Amazon – $88Buy PowerA charging dock at Amazon – $25

For action-packed games: Pro-level controllers

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Sometimes you just want a standard controller to play your favorite action titles — and standard in 2020 means something like you’d get packed in with an Xbox, with grips for the heels of your hands, shoulder buttons and triggers, two thumb sticks, a set of four buttons on the right and a D-pad on the left. Nintendo knows that, which is why it created the Pro Controller. This first-party gamepad pairs easily with the Switch and features a D-pad on the left, while still maintaining features like the infrared sensor and vibration that might go missing on third-party alternatives. The only downside is the $70 price, but avid players of games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will appreciate the refined controls and increased comfort.

While you can plug your Pro Controller directly into your Switch dock to charge, it’s not the most elegant solution. PowerA also makes an attractive $25 dock that accommodates both Joy-Cons and the Pro Controller, which should keep your gaming area nice and tidy.

Buy Pro Controller at Amazon – $70Buy PowerA dock at Amazon – $25

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When the price of the Pro Controller is a bit rich for your blood or out of stock, PowerA makes its own version with the same arrangement of buttons. The Enhanced Wireless Controller skips the rechargeable battery in favor of AAs, which has its downsides, but at least when it runs low on juice you can just pop in a new pair of batteries and get right back to gaming. Unfortunately, there’s no USB-C port to connect with so you’ll have to pair the device wirelessly — which can be finicky and may take a few tries before your Switch recognizes the controller. It also lacks vibration, so you won’t get tactile feedback in games where it’s helpful. And the plus and minus buttons are placed a bit closer to the center, so those with smaller hands will have to reach a bit further to press them.

If you’d prefer not to have to recharge — or buy batteries for — your gamepad, PowerA also makes a wired version of the same controller that connects via USB. It’s got the same look and feel, but you won’t have to struggle as much with getting your console to recognize it, and there’s no potential for wireless lag, making it ideal for fast-paced shooters and fighting games. The included cord is 10 feet long so it should reach most couches just fine.

While most third-party controllers tend to mimic the Xbox style of gamepad, anyone more familiar with the PlayStation’s distinctive DualShock design will probably prefer the $50 Pro 2 from 8BitDo. The retro-styled controller has the same general layout as the classic SNES gamepad, but adds twin thumb sticks, palm grips, back buttons, control remapping and even sensitivity adjustments. It’s truly the Swiss Army knife of Switch controllers.

Buy Enhanced Wireless controller at Amazon – $60Buy PowerA wired controller at Amazon – $23Buy 8bitdo Pro 2 at Amazon – $50

For old school gaming: Niche and retro controllers

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Twenty years later and the preferred controller layout for Super Smash Bros. players is still the one made for the GameCube, which is why today it’s still possible to buy new gamepads straight from Nintendo. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Edition GameCube Controller is identical in layout and design to the original gamepads, though now it connects via USB so it can be used with the Switch. The only downside to the reissue is that it doesn’t come in a bold shade of purple anymore.

However, if you’re still sporting a classic GameCube controller with its proprietary connector, you can also pick up an adapter that will let your Switch accommodate up to four old-school gamepads. Nintendo sells one on its store, but the Y Team controller adapter is also a good alternative that costs less and can be bought at Amazon.

But you might not want to be tethered to your console — especially if you have fond memories of kicking back on your couch with a Wavebird in hand to play GameCube games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Killer 7. PowerA’s Nintendo GameCube-Style wireless controller is the closest you can get to recreating that feeling short of plugging a few RF dongles into a GameCube adapter.

Buy Smash Bros. controller at Amazon – $73Buy Y Team adapter at Amazon – $14Buy PowerA Game Cube-style controller at Amazon – $55

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What if your retro tastes go even further back, say to the NES and SNES era? If you’re subscribed to Nintendo Online, you have access to over 100 classic titles, so you might want a more “authentic” controller to use with them. Nintendo Online subscribers can buy retro-style wireless gamepads directly from the company, though the $60 set of two small, rectangular NES controllers will remind you why we’ve moved on from that design. The dog-bone shape of the $30 SNES model is more hand friendly and can still be used with the NES games, so it’s a better use of your funds should you decide you want to recreate your childhood gaming experiences.

If you don’t need an exact copy of your beloved childhood gamepads it’s worth looking at 8BitDo instead: It makes a variety of classic-styled controllers that add just enough modern features to make them useful for a wider variety of games. Its models are almost all wireless, and there are some design changes to make the controllers more comfortable and easier to use. We’ve already recommended the DualShock-like Pro 2, but the $45 SN30 Pro also offers features like dual thumb sticks and vibration in the dog-bone controller style.

If you’re looking for something more portable, however, the $25 8BitDo Lite is smaller and swaps out the thumb sticks for two D-pads, keeping the four button arrangement on each side. It’s great for 2D games and it even matches the color scheme of the Switch Lite. 

Before you try any of the controllers listed in this guide, remember to update your Switch to the latest firmware — the 8BitDo controllers will run on any version, but the PowerA gamepads need your system to run at least version 6.0.0.

Buy NES controller pack at Nintendo – $60Buy SNES controller at Nintendo – $30Buy SN30 Pro at Amazon – $45Buy 8bitdo Lite at Amazon – $25

Laser-powered fusion energy inches closer to reality

Scientists have just edged closer to a fusion energy system that doesn't lean on magnetic field-based tokamak reactors or twisty stellarators. Sciencereports that a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has achieved a breakthrough in laser-powered fusion energy by coming much closer to "ignition," or a blast that produces an excess of energy.

The researchers sparked the event with a 20-nanosecond burst from 192 laser beams aimed at a tiny sphere full of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, itself housed in a small gold cylinder. The laser shot vaporizes the gold, producing x-rays that implode the capsule and create fusion. The experiment produced 70 percent ignition, or 1.35 megajoules of the 1.9MJ from the laser. That's well short of what you'd need from a fusion energy source, but eight times more powerful than the lab had managed before.

It will take a while for the research unit to further refine the process and achieve full ignition. There's also a large gap between achieving ignition and making a practical fusion power system — you'd need to produce these fusion blasts a rate near 10 per second to collect energy from the resulting neutrons.

The test does show that laser-based fusion is a much more realistic prospect than first thought, however. If there's further progress, the technique could produce effectively 'unlimited' energy that could solve the electrical grid's capacity issues while remaining clean and safe.

Holoride’s in-car VR gaming system leaves the track for the real world

Holoride’s VR gaming system for passengers caught our attention a few years back at CES when we were given a ride in an Audi on a track and had the game react to the movement of the vehicle while we played. Well, the company is back and this time they demoed two games and threw off the shackles of the track for the real world.

We took a ride in an Audi with the Holoride system and again enjoyed video games while someone else drove. The company is currently courting developers to build games via their recently announced SDK and are partnering with automakers to make sure that the data they need from the car to make their games a reality is available. Watch the video above for the full story.

Pinterest launches hair pattern search with BIPOC users in mind

Pinterest has launched a new search feature that could make it easier for Black, Brown, Indigenous, Latinx and other POC users to find hair inspiration that would suit their hair types. The visual discovery website has introduced hair pattern search, it said, with BIPOC users in mind. This new feature uses computer vision-powered object detection to enable users to refine their searches by six different hair patterns: protective, coily, curly, wavy, straight and shaved/bald.

Now, after users search for broader terms like "summer hairstyles," "glam hair" or "short hair," they'll find new hair pattern buttons that will narrow down the results. The feature is now live in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on desktop, as well as on iOS and Android. It will roll out to more locations over the coming months.

Yes, there are different types of curls, not to mention different hair textures and porosities, and Pinterest said its technology detected hair patterns in over 500 million images on its platform. Being able to refine results could help POC users find styling inspiration more easily instead of having to wade through pages and pages of hair images that wouldn't work for their hair types. That said, it remains to be seen how accurate the feature is and if it's truly effective in sifting through images on the website.

According to the company, this feature builds on its first inclusive product that allows users to search for images based on the subjects' skin tones. It worked with BIPOC creators and popular Pinners like Naeemah LaFond to design the product.

Pinterest's Head of Inclusive Product Annie Ta said in a statement: 

"Our mission on the Inclusive Product team is to help everyone feel like Pinterest is a place for them. As a visual discovery platform, we have an opportunity and responsibility to do a better job of increasing representation in the products we build. That's why we built hair pattern search using computer vision technology to help identify hair patterns in images. By doing this, we hope we're able to use technology for good and make it easier for people, no matter who they are, to find hair inspiration for them on Pinterest."

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Jabra’s latest earbuds are for people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss

A number of companies make "hearing enhancement" devices that look more like a set of earbuds than a piece of clinical tech. Nuheara has been a staple at CES with its IQbuds line and companies like Bose, Bragi, Olive and others have offered a mix of tech and hardware to assist with hearing loss. Even Apple plans to introduce a "Converstaion Boost" for its AirPods Pro. Since the FDA allows companies to sell directly to consumers with mild-to-moderate hearing loss without the need for a prescription, the list of options is constantly growing. Another company that's specifically equipped to blur the line between hearing aid and true wireless earbuds is Jabra, thanks to the auditory assistance expertise of its parent company GN. 

With the Jabra Enhance Plus, the company offers a more approachable device for people who may not need what all-day hearing aids offer just yet. Jabra describes these earbuds as "a miniaturized true wireless form factor" that's 50 percent smaller than its stellar Elite 75t model. Those are already some of the smallest buds I've tested, so reducing the size even further makes the Enhance Plus more comfortable and more discreet. Plus, a design that resembles earbuds rather than a traditional hearing aid helps reduce the stigma around wearing something that helps your hear better. 

Inside, four separate sound processing features work to improve audio quality. The Enhance Plus analyzes sound to keep things as natural as possible while also reducing noise for speech clarity. The earbuds also ensure feedback doesn't hinder amplification and they isolate sounds coming from in front of you. 

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In addition to providing hearing enhancement, the Jabra Enhance Plus can work just like a set of true wireless earbuds to play music and take calls. Similar to other earbuds, the Enhance Plus comes with multiple sizes of ear tips to help you find the best fit, on-board controls and water/dust resistance (IP52). Jabra says they'll last 10 hours on a charge with 30 hours total when you factor in the charging case. An app assists with setup and offers a degree of customization. 

Jabra plans to launch the Enhance Plus at "select hearing care clinics" in the US "towards the end of the year." A licensed professional will conduct a hearing test to make sure these earbuds are appropriate. There's no word on pricing just yet, but the company says it's applying for approval under the FDA's self-fitting category. If you're looking for more of a true hearing aid rather than these "enhancers," Jabra also offers the Enhance Pro. It carries the more traditional behind-the-ear hearing aid design along with a charging case. It's also pricey, starting at $1,800. 

If that's what you're after, the Bose SoundControl hearing aids went on sale in May, and as of last week, are available in all 50 states. That device puts the company's audio expertise to use to help you hear better, and Bose said it was the first FDA-cleared hearing aids that could be sold directly to consumers. What's more, they're more affordable at $850, but they run on the typical zinc-air batteries for hearing aids rather than being rechargeable. 

Update 1:13PM ET: Bose SoundControl hearing aids are now available in all 50 states after a limited rollout at launch. This post has been updated to clarify that availability. 

Roku devices are back on sale at Amazon, including the Streambar for $99

Last month, we saw a number of Roku streaming devices receive big discounts on Amazon — including the Roku Streambar, which went down to $99. Now that sale is back, making it a good time for those who missed it last time to snag an updated streaming gadget. The Roku Streambar is back down to $99, or 24 percent off its normal price, while the Streaming Stick+ and the Express 4K+ are down to $40 and $29, respectively.

Buy Roku Streambar at Amazon – $99Buy Roku Streaming Stick+ at Amazon – $40Buy Roku Express 4K+ at Amazon – $29

If you have an older TV in your home or a smart TV with software that you're not a huge fan of, Roku's Streambar can revamp your system when it comes to audio as well as streaming. It earned a score of 86 from us thanks to its compact size — it'll easily fit into almost any setup — solid audio quality with Dolby Atmos support and its built-in 4K HDR streaming tech.

You're essentially getting a soundbar that doubles as a Roku Ultra (albeit without Dolby Vision support), so movies and TV shows will sound better and you'll have access to all of the streaming services on the Roku platform including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and more. It also works as a Bluetooth speaker as well, but we found the device sounded better when watching action movies than when playing our favorite pop playlists.

The other discounted Roku products are best for those aren't as interested in an audio upgrade as they are in streaming power that comes in a small package. The Streaming Stick+ has ended up in many of our home entertainment guides thanks to its affordability and relatively comprehensive feature set. It supports 4K HDR streaming, long-range wireless connectivity and voice commands with Alexa and the Google Assistant. The Express 4K+ is very similar, but it supports smooth wireless connectivity instead of long-range. Both dongles also come with Roku's voice remote as well.

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Samsung is removing ads from its One UI Android apps

Samsung's insistence on shoving ads into its stock apps has detracted from its otherwise stellar phones. If the pop-ups inside Samsung Pay and Music irked you, we have good news: They'll soon be axed for good. “Samsung has made a decision to cease the advertisement on proprietary apps including Samsung Weather, Samsung Pay, and Samsung Theme,” the company confirmed in a statement. “The update will be ready by later this year.”

The move to cull in-app ads was first reported by Korean media who attributed it to TM Roh, president and head of mobile communications business, Samsung Electronics. In response to a question by an employee at the company's online town hall, the exec said that ads would go away in future versions of apps like Samsung Pay, Samsung Themes and Samsung Weather. Roh hinted that the reversal was made in response to user and staff feedback.

We were never fans of the in-app ads here at Engadget. In our recent reviews of the flagship S21 Ultra and mid-range A52 5G, we noted that the "lousy" ads in Samsung's Weather and Daily news apps felt "unpleasant and weird." It seems Samsung finally took heed of the criticism, especially from irritated users, and decided to ditch them altogether.

Samsung Pay will let you carry your COVID vaccination record

As more and more venues and events, including CES, require proof of vaccination against COVID before granting entry, Samsung is working to make it easier to keep your records on hand. The company has today announced that it has partnered with non-profit The Commons Project to help digitize people’s vaccination records. Once a user has authenticated their record through the CommonHealth app, they can add the details to their Samsung Pay wallet for “convenient access and use.”

The feature is rolling out to a small number of devices initially, but Samsung says that every compatible device will have access by the end of the week. Both parties say that the data will be secure and the transfer from the CommonHealth app to Samsung Pay will be quick and painless.

45 Best Lawn Care Flyer Templates (Gardening, Mowing and Grass Cutting Flyers)

If you have a lawn care company and want to drum up more business, a terrific lawn care advertising flyer can help. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that you have to spend time and money you can ill afford to create a flyer from scratch.

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Instead, all you need is a great lawn care service flyer template. Today we will share three sources for premium flyer templates: Envato Elements, Placeit, and GraphicRiver.

Unlimited Downloads at Envato Elements

First up is Envato Elements, a terrific resource that offers thousands of premium digital assets like graphic templates, mockups, logos, photos, fonts, and much more.

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For one low monthly fee, you can download as many lawn maintenance flyer templates and other digital assets as you like, as often as you like. Let’s take a look at some of the fabulous lawn care flyer templates available from Envato Elements.

Lawn Care Flyer Templates (INDD, PSD)

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This professional A4 flyer template is a great choice for letting your potential customers know about the services you can offer them. It’s completely editable using InDesign—all you need to do is change the background photo, add your text and business colours, and your lawn care flyer design is ready to print and distribute.

Lawn Company Flyer (AI, EPS, PSD)

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This super lawn company flyer doubles as a postcard. Add a statement image to one side, as well as attention-getting text, and then give more details plus your contact information on the other side.

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Here’s another example of a lawn care advertising flyer that uses the postcard idea. Fully editable in either Illustrator or Photoshop, the template features a fresh and modern design.

Lawn Care Business Flyers (AI, PSD)

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Create professional and engaging flyers when you use this lawn care business flyer template. The pack includes an A5 and A4 flyer template, but also offers a trifold brochure and A4 catalogue. Fully editable using Photoshop or Illustrator.

Lawn Care Gardening Flyers (INDD, PSD, AI, EPS)

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If you run a full-service company that offers both lawn and garden care services, then you will love this modern and professional flyer template. Just change the images, the fonts, and your colour scheme, and just like that you have the perfect flyer to share on social media or to print and distribute to your customers.

Lawn Care Flyer Ideas (PSD)

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Here’s an A4, print-ready trifold brochure that’s a great choice when you want to give loads of information about your services. The trifold style offers six different unique page layouts so that you can dedicate each page to its own specific topic or area.

Lawn Care Flyers Examples (PSD, AI, EPS)

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How about this cool lawn care flyer? The unique design is both functional and eye-catching. Add your images and text using Photoshop or Illustrator.

Lawn Care Flyers Examples (PSD)

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This versatile lawn maintenance flyer template contains three different design layouts, offering maximum flexibility to launch your promotion campaigns. The A4 templates are fully editable in Photoshop.

Gardening Leaflets (PSD, AI, EPS)

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Promote your business with this gardening leaflet. The clean, modern layout comes in well-organised layers in both Photoshop and Illustrator. Choose the program that you’re most proficient in to get started with editing your template.

Lawn Care Flyer Designs (INDD)

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When you’re looking for a template pack that offers a comprehensive collection of promotional materials, this is the template pack for you. It offers an A3 poster template, an A4 and A5 flyer template, a postcard template, and a trifold brochure template. Each template features a professional design layout that’s easy to customise so that you can change the images, text, and colour scheme.

Gardening and Lawn Service Flyers (PSD, AI, EPS)

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This simple yet elegant gardening and lawn service flyer is just what you need to promote your company’s services. The A4 flyer is designed in both Illustrator and Photoshop and is fully editable and print ready.

Gardening Flyers (INDD, PSD, AI, EPS)

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Here’s a bifold gardening flyer that gives you some more options in terms of layout. The A4 template offers four unique layouts. Change the colours, text, and images, and you’ve got a great gardening flyer ready to distribute.

Gardening and Lawn Company Flyers (PSD)

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Gardening and lawn company flyers are clearly a great way to promote your business, and these templates will help you do just that. All the text is editable, and you can swap out the placeholder images using the smart object tool in Photoshop.

Lawn Care Flyer Ideas (PSD)

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How cool is this trifold lawn care flyer template? The template, which comes in both A4 and US Letter size, offers six unique page layouts so that you can make the most of your flyer.

Gardening Flyers (INDD, AI, EPS, PSD, PDF)

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Sometimes, all you need is a simple layout to get your message across. And when that’s the case, this gardening flyer is the perfect choice. The A4 size flyer offers enough room for both your images and your text. Customisation is easy in InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator, so choose the program you’re most comfortable with and get to work.

Lawn and Gardening Flyers (PSD, AI, EPS)

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Here’s another A4 template, but this one offers a bit more complexity than the one we just featured. The layout of this lawn maintenance flyer template allows you to add a bit more information than the template above. It uses a clever layout and wonderfully balanced colour scheme to help you do that.

Gardening Leaflet (PSD)

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Adding a human face to your gardening leaflet is a great way to connect to your audience, so be sure to add a photo of yourself when you design your next leaflet. This A4 template is fully customisable using Photoshop.

Lawn Care and Gardening Flyers (INDD, PSD, AI, EPS)

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How wonderful is this lawn care and gardening flyer? The bifold flyer offers four unique layouts that you can use to create an informative and eye-catching document. The template comes in A4 size and is fully editable using either InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator.

Gardening and Lawn Service Flyers (INDD, PSD, EPS, AI)

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From bifold to trifold. Check out this trifold brochure with its playful layouts. Layouts like this offer lots of room for you to describe your business and its services in detail.

Lawn and Gardening Flyers (PSD, AI)

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This is a package that you want to get your hands on because it offers not just A4 and A5 flyer templates, but also an A3 poster, a business card, and a postcard template. All the templates offer a clean and professional design, with dual colour schemes and modern graphics.

Gardening Flyers (INDD)

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This gardening flyer offers a huge amount of versatility for business owners. That’s because it offers eight unique page layouts that you can use to create a wonderful bifold flyer or a bigger brochure.

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This A4 flyer template is great for lawn, gardening, landscape, farming, and agricultural businesses. It offers well-organised and fully editable files in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Gardening Leaflet (INDD)

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Is gardening the thing you’re passionate about? Do you have an idea for turning your passion into a business? Then you need to check out this gardening leaflet to promote your new venture. The A4 bifold leaflet gives you four unique page layouts, and that’s plenty of space for you to show off your gardening images and tell your potential clients all about your business and the services it offers.

Farming, Gardening & Lawn Care Service Flyers (INDD, PSD)

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Here’s a farming, gardening, and lawn care service flyer that will help you to promote your business. The A4 flyer gives you plenty of room to show off the best images of work you’ve done for other clients while leaving room for text. The A4 files are completely editable in Photoshop and InDesign and are print ready.

Unlimited Downloads at Placeit

Placeit is another affordable online design generator that provides high-quality designs, logos, videos and mockups that you can customise online directly from your browser, without needing complicated software, and download in a matter of seconds.

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Placeit is designed to suit a range of budgets. You can buy one digital resource at a time, or if you regularly need mockups, logos, and various designs, you can sign up for a low monthly or yearly plan that gives you access to unlimited downloads of any and all the digital assets available at Placeit.

Mowing Business Flyers

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No matter what kind of lawn care and landscaping services you offer, this lawn company flyer is a great choice to promote your company. And best of all, it’s super easy to customise online with the logo maker from Placeit. In minutes, you can change your background image and add your text and company colours.

Lawn Cutting Flyers

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How about using this lawn company flyer template to promote your company’s business and find new clients? Add your text, use the images provided, select your colour palette, and your flyer is ready to use.

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One of the great ways of finding new clients with your landscaping flyer is to use stunning images that represent the kind of work you do. Upload your own eye-catching images using the flyer maker or use the images provided with the template if you prefer.

Lawn Maintenance Flyer Template

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Whether you offer the full service of a landscape company or run a company that focuses specifically on lawns, this template is a great option to create a business flyer to promote your business.

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Here’s another terrific landscape and lawn company flyer template that you can customise for your business. One of the great things about Placeit is that you can experiment as little or as much as you want, without paying a cent. So try out different images and text combinations using the flyer maker to see what works best for you.

Lawn Maintenance Flyer Template

Lawn company flyers should communicate exactly what kind of service you offer, and this flyer does that well with this terrific image of a well-kept lawn, garden, and trees. The flyer maker at Placeit offers tons of fabulous images, so see which one you like the most or upload your very own.

Lawn Care Flyer Design

One of the great things about this flyer is that it offers a good amount of room for your image but loads more for you to describe the services that you offer without crowding the flyer. Use the flyer maker to add a new image, change the text, and select your colour scheme.

Mowing Business Flyers

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Looking for a mowing business flyer? Well, this one is a great choice with its image of a lawnmower front and centre. Of course, you don’t need to be so literal. You can scroll through the other images provided with the template to find one you might prefer.

Lawn Company Flyers

When you need a lawn maintenance flyer in a hurry, the templates at Placeit are a great choice because they require no special software and can be customised to suit your specific needs in a matter of minutes. Try this one out!

Residential Lawn Care Advertising Flyers

If your business focuses specifically on providing services to homeowners, then it’s a good idea to make that clear on your flyer, as this example shows. Use the flyer maker to upload a great image, add your header text and any other details about your company you want to give, and don’t forget your contact information.

Premium Downloads From GraphicRiver

GraphicRiver is another service that offers terrific lawn company flyer templates and other premium digital assets, but it works a bit differently from Elements and Placeit in that it offers single downloads for one low fee. This makes it a great choice for those on a budget.

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Let’s take a look at some of the top-quality offerings from GraphicRiver.

Lawn Care Advertising Flyers (PSD)

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Check out this great flyer with its powerful image and terrific layout. It’s an excellent lawn care flyer example for businesses that provide various landscape services including lawn care. All elements in the template are fully editable in Photoshop.

Lawn Care Business Flyers (PSD)

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Drum up new business for your lawn service company with this lawn care business flyer. The template offers two Photoshop files in A4 and US Letter size. The files are well organised and easy to edit.

Lawn Care Flyer Designs (AI, EPS)

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When you need a lawn care advertising flyer, you can’t go wrong with this gorgeous template. The A4 template offers a great layout which helps the eye to move through the template, reading the most important information first.

Lawn Care Flyer Ideas (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Whether you are proficient in Illustrator or Photoshop, this file is a great choice for you. The A4 template is eye-catching and modern and allows you to use a number of images as examples of the work that you do.

Lawn Care Flyer Template (PSD)

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This lawn company flyer is offered in US Letter size only. The images, text, and graphics are all organised on separate layers, making the template super easy to edit in Photoshop.

Lawn Care Flyers (PSD)

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Really you can’t do better than this phenomenal lawn company flyer template. That’s because the template offers two different choices of layouts, both of which are eye-catching. That makes it very hard to choose between the two.

Lawn Care Flyer Examples (PSD)

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Here’s another lawn care flyer example that shows you exactly what your flyer can look like after you’ve finished customising it. Perfect for promoting lawn, landscape, and gardening services, the template is available in three design variations, all of which are fully editable. The template comes in both A4 and US Letter size.

Lawn Care Service Flyers (PSD)

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This flyer template is perfect for promoting a lawn care or gardening business. Available in three design variations and two print size formats—A4 and US Letter size—these templates are fully editable so that you can change the images, text, and colour scheme.

Lawn Maintenance Flyer Template (PSD, AI, EPS)

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This wonderful lawn service flyer gives you plenty of room for great images and important text. You can edit the template either in Photoshop or Illustrator. Use your preferred software and get to work.

Gardening Flyer (PSD)

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Here’s a gardening leaflet that prospective clients won’t forget. And it all starts with a great layout to which you can add your own images, text, and colour scheme.

Gardening Leaflets (AI, EPS)

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Cutting grass is great exercise and keeps your lawn looking neat, but many homeowners just don’t have the time to do it. So making sure they know that your service is available to them is as important to them as it is to you. Make the template your own by adding your own riveting images, text, and company colours.

Choose Your Favourite Lawn Care Flyer Templates

That’s it for the best lawn company flyers you can find at Envato Elements, Placeit, and GraphicRiver. Head over to any of the sites and download your favourite template today. And if you are interested in more flyer templates, check out these super helpful articles below:

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44 Best Hotel Brochure Templates (Wedding, Spa, Resort, and More)

Figuring out the right design for your hotel brochure doesn’t have to be stressful or expensive.

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One of the many hotel brochure templates on Envato Elements

In fact, it can be as easy as reviewing these stunning hotel brochure ideas from Envato Elements and GraphicRiver and downloading your favourites.

Unlimited Downloads at Envato Elements

Envato Elements is a terrific resource for designers and business owners that offers thousands of premium digital assets like graphic templates, mockups, logos, photos, fonts, and much more.

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What makes this service outstanding is that for one low monthly fee you can download as many of these digital resources as you like, as often as you like. A great bargain if you regularly need various templates, logos, stock photos, flyers, etc. Let’s take a look at some of the terrific hotel brochure examples available from Envato Elements.

Luxury Resort Brochure (INDD)

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Looking for a special brochure for your special hotel? How about this lovely luxury resort brochure? It offers a square format and several pages so that you can really show all the best assets of your property.

Luxury Hotel Brochure (INDD)

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We may not all be able to afford a luxury hotel, but we can add one to our bucket list! So when you decide to create a luxury hotel brochure, make sure it’s the stuff that dreams are made of, like this luxury resort brochure. The template contains 20 pages of unique layouts, all of which are fully customisable in InDesign.

Hotel Brochure Template (INDD)

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When you want to create a standout hotel brochure, you need to use a standout template that won’t let you down. This hotel brochure template offers a beautiful layout which is easy to customise in InDesign. The template comes in US Letter size with images, text, and graphics all organised on separate layers to make it easy to edit.

Hotel Brochure Maker (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Wouldn’t you want to stay in this hotel? Then maybe this is a great choice of brochure template for you to create your own hotel brochure that will make your potential customers excited about booking your hotel for their next holiday. The A4 template is fully customisable in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Luxury Resort Brochure (AI, EPS, PSD)

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This enticing luxury resort brochure is an excellent choice for promoting your property. The print-ready template is fully customisable in Photoshop or Illustrator. It contains well-organised files, with images and text on separate layers for easy editing.

Hotel Brochure Ideas (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Looking for hotel brochure ideas? This modern hotel brochure example is suitable for any type of hotel. It’s edible in either Photoshop or Illustrator, comes in A4 paper size, and is fully print-ready.

Simple Hotel Brochure (PSD)

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This simple hotel brochure packs a punch. The A4 size Photoshop file offers plenty of room to show off images of your hotel, but does so without sacrificing space for critical text. Print-ready and easy to customise, this template can be edited using Photoshop.

Luxury Hotel Brochure (INDD, PDF)

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Luxury hotels will love this lush and beautiful hotel brochure idea. Use the front side of the A4 template to upload one striking image of your hotel then add the hotel name and any distinguishing information about the hotel. On the other side of the template, you can add more text details if needed.

Luxury Hotel Brochure Example (AI, EPS, PSD)

Here’s another luxury hotel brochure example that you won’t be able to resist. This beautifully laid out A4 size file is fully customisable in either Photoshop or Illustrator. The stylish layout is all worked out for you so that all you need to do is add your photos, text, and brand colours.

Simple Hotel Brochure (INDD, DOC)

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When you’re looking for a hotel brochure that is simple yet tasteful, this clean and stylish hotel brochure is a great choice. The A4 template offers two pages so that you can use both the front and back of the document.

Hotel Brochure PDF Download (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Whether you own a little hotel in the woods or a boutique hotel in the city, this hotel brochure PDF download is a great option when you need to promote your business. Edit the A4-sized template in either Photoshop or Illustrator.

Hotel Spa Brochure (INDD)

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How about this wonderful trifold hotel spa brochure for all your hotel promotional needs? Sectioned in three parts to allow you to add more information, this template comes in both A4 and US Letter size. You can edit this elegant, modern hotel spa brochure using InDesign.

Hotel Pamphlet Design (AI, EPS, PSD)

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This terrific hotel pamphlet design allows you to put your most important information at the top of the page next to a riveting image of your property. The rest of the page you can use for details about your property and the facilities that you offer.

Hotel Brochure Trifold (AI, EPS, INDD, PSD)

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The advantage of a hotel brochure trifold template is that it allows you to pack more information into your brochure, without the brochure looking crowded. That’s because it uses a professionally designed layout to organise the text carefully on each page. This template comes in both A4 and US Letter size.

Hotel Pamphlet Design (INDD)

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Use this hotel pamphlet design to create clean and modern promotional literature for your business. Presented in both A4 and US Letter size, the template is laid out in well-organised layers that you can edit using InDesign.

Hotel Wedding Brochure (PSD)

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Looking for the perfect hotel wedding brochure to promote your hotel as a wedding venue? Use this trifold brochure to explain exactly what you do and what you offer. Make sure you add gorgeous images to reinforce and support your text.

Boutique Hotel Brochure (PSD)

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This is an excellent boutique hotel brochure that you need to check out. The unique layout offers plenty of room for both images and important text. Images, text, and graphics are organised in separate Photoshop layers for easy editing.

Spanish Hotel Brochure Project (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Add your best images to promote your hotel when you use the Spanish hotel brochure project. You can edit this A4 template quite easily in either Photoshop or Illustrator.

Luxury Resort Brochure (PSD, JPG)

Resorts have a lot of competition when it comes to their business, so it’s imperative that your promotional literature really communicates why your hotel is better than the rest. This luxury resort brochure template will help you to do just that. Start with a stunning image and eye-catching header text, and then add your brand colour scheme to finish things off.

Hotel Brochure Ideas (PSD)

When you need a brochure that gives you a bit more room to feature your services, this hotel brochure is a great idea. The layout leaves ample room for your images but also contains three discrete areas for text in three areas so that you can differentiate one set of information from the other easily.

Resort Hotel Brochure PDF (INDD)

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This resort hotel PDF offers a bifold design and an extremely attractive layout. It’s presented in A4 size, and all you need to do to make it your own is add your images and text to the InDesign document. Then select your colour scheme and you’re done.

Hotel Brochure Sample PDF (AI, PSD)

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How about this hotel brochure sample PDF? It’s fully customisable in both Illustrator and Photoshop, and the text, images, and graphics are organised on separate layers to make editing easy.

Boutique Hotel Brochure (INDD, PDF)

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This boutique hotel brochure offers a bit more space to really splash out and show off what your property is all about. The template offers 24 pages of unique layouts, all of which are fully editable using InDesign.

Luxury Resort Brochure (INDD)

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How will anyone be able to resist booking a stay at your property when you use this luxury resort brochure to promote all the qualities that make your property special?

Hotel Conference Brochure (AI, EPS, PSD)

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If your hotel offers conference services, then you need this A4 hotel conference brochure. The trifold brochure allows you to organise all the information about your hotel in six self-contained pages.

Hotel Wedding Brochure (PSD, INDD, IDML)

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How about using this hotel wedding brochure template to really show off why engaged couples should use your venue for their once-in-a-lifetime event? The template, which you can edit in Photoshop or InDesign, offers a truly eye-catching layout, with plenty of room for your images and text.

Luxury Resort Brochure (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Here’s another luxury resort brochure that you should definitely consider when you’re looking for a standout layout for your property promotion. This professional template is offered in A4 size and is well organised and layered for easy customisation.

Luxury Resort Brochure (AI, EPS, PSD)

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This enticing luxury resort brochure is an excellent choice for promoting your property. The print-ready template is fully customisable in Photoshop or Illustrator. It contains well-organised files, with images and text on separate layers for easy editing.

Hotel Conference Brochure (INDD)

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If your hotel provides conference support, then this hotel conference brochure is a good choice for you. The A4 brochure is customisable in InDesign. Just swap out the images using the smart objects feature, add your text and brand colour scheme, and you’re done.

Hotel Spa Brochure (AI, PSD)

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Who doesn’t love a spa? And if your hotel offers a wonderful spa service, then you need to let your potential guests know about it. This wonderful hotel spa brochure offers an eye-catching and innovative layout which allows you to add plenty of information while keeping the gorgeous images of your property in full view.

Hotel Brochure Ideas (AI, EPS, PSD, INDD)

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This hotel brochure is offered in both A4 and US Letter size. Whether you’re most comfortable using Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, this template offers a format that’s right for you.

Hotel Brochure PDF Download (INDD)

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Here’s another hotel brochure PDF download that’s easy to customise in InDesign. It comes in A4 size and is ready to print. Just add your images and your most important text, finish up by incorporating your brand colours, and you’re ready to print.

Resort Hotel Brochure (AI, EPS, PSD)

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Give your resort a boost when you use this resort pamphlet design to promote your services. The A4 template is editable in both Illustrator and Photoshop, so choose your favourite software and get to work.

Hotel Spa Brochure (INDD, PDF)

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If you’re looking for a brochure that offers the widest choices of pages, then this hotel spa brochure is just the right choice for you. It comes in a compact square shape and offers 18 different page layouts that you can mix and match to get a look that’s right for your business.

Premium Downloads From GraphicRiver

GraphicRiver is another service that offers terrific hotel brochure ideas and other premium digital assets, but it works a bit differently from Elements in that it offers single downloads for one low fee. This makes it a great choice for those on a budget.

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Let’s take a look at some of the top-quality offerings there.

Luxury Hotel Brochure (AI, INDD)

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This 12-page luxury hotel brochure is just what you need when you want to create an enticing brochure about your hotel. The template is offered in square shape and is fully editable in Illustrator or InDesign.

Hotel Conference Brochure (EPS, AI)

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Looking for a bifold brochure where you can feature a range of your hotel’s features, including its conference services? Then how about this hotel conference brochure, which offers four pages of unique layouts that you can mix and match as you need to.

Hotel Pamphlet Design (INDD)

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Hotel pamphlet design offers a landscape orientation with 16 unique page layouts that you can use to create a truly unique design. The template is offered in both A4 and US Letter size and is fully editable in InDesign.

Hotel Spa Brochure (PSD)

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This Hotel Spa Brochure template is perfect when you’re looking for a hotel brochure that allows you the space to show off your spa services. The A4 template contains six pages plus a front and back cover and is fully editable in Photoshop.

Colourful Hotel Brochure PDF Download (PSD)

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This colourful hotel brochure template offers 16 pages of unique layouts. Select the layouts that most suit your purpose, add your images and text, and finally apply your company’s brand colours. Customisation is that easy using Photoshop.

Boutique Hotel Brochure (EPS, INDD)

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This modern and elegant boutique hotel brochure offers a landscape orientation. It contains 12 pages in A4 size and is fully print-ready.

Hotel Brochure Sample PDF (INDD)

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What do you think of this terrific hotel brochure template? It comes in A4 size and offers 24 pages which are fully editable in InDesign.

Luxury Hotel Brochure Examples (INDD)

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Here’s another luxury hotel brochure example that you won’t be able to resist. This one comes in A4 portrait orientation and offers 24 customisable pages. The graphics, text, and images are all organised in separate layers in InDesign to make editing easy.

Resort Hotel Brochure PDF (INDD)

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With 20 beautiful page layouts, this luxury hotel landscape brochure offers more than enough options for you to create a standout hotel brochure. The template offers both A4 and US Letter size, and all elements—text, colours, graphics, and images—can be easily customised using InDesign.

Hotel Wedding Brochure (PSD)

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Let the world know that your hotel is the perfect place for a wedding with this hotel wedding brochure. Apart from highlighting the usual services provided in top-rated hotels, you can also highlight all those special things that you offer to engaged couples for their wedding.

Luxury Hotel Brochure (INDD)

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When it comes to high opulence, this luxury hotel brochure can’t be beat. The A4 size document is laid out in a trifold design which provides six different layouts, plenty when it comes to showing off your hotel’s services.

Choose Your Favourite Hotel Brochure Today

Now you know just where to find the best hotel brochures when you need them. Head on over to Envato Elements and GraphicRiver and download your favourite template today.

And if you are interested in more information about templates available at Envato Elements and GraphicRiver, check out these super helpful articles below:

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How to Round Corners in Illustrator

In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to round corners in Illustrator. There are several different methods to achieve this, so pick the one which best helps solve your problem.

1. How to Round Corners Using Live Corner Widgets

Let’s get to rounding some corners in Adobe Illustrator.

A couple of helpful panels to get you started are:

  • Transform panel (Window menu > Transform)
  • Properties panel (Window > Properties)
  • Control bar (Window > Control)

Step 1

Let’s say we have this star object, and you wish to apply rounded corners to all its edges.

By using the Direct Selection Tool (A) and selecting the shape, you will notice the appearance of the Live Corners widget; little circular nodes in the internal and external corners of the shape. This Live Corners widget has been available in Adobe Illustrator CC since 2014.

You can increase/decrease the curve of the shape, by dragging the nodes inwards and outwards. The curvature will appear in red once the maximum possible curve point has been reached.

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Use the Live Corners widget to round corners

Step 2

If you wish to round an individual corner, then use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to double-click on one of the Live Corners widgets. This will open a dialog box that will allow you to edit the options for the selected anchor point.

Select Corner: Round option, and set the desired Radius size and Rounding style.

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Double-click the Live Corners widget to open the dialog box and set Corner options

Step 3

Did you know you can also round multiple selected corners in Adobe Illustrator?

For example, say you have two separate paths. Use the Direct Selection Tool (A), and hold the Shift key to select multiple nodes you’d like to round.

Then head over to the Corners link in the above Control bar, and manually set the Corner Radius pt value. Or you can simply click and drag the Live Corner widgets to the desired roundness.

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From the Control bar, set the Corner Radius of one or multiple anchor points

Step 4

Another technique for rounding or editing the corner radius is displayed within the Transform panel (Window menu > Transform). You can easily set the radius value from the Corners section.

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Use the Transform panel as an option to edit the Corner radius

Step 5

What to do if you can’t round a corner on a path or object? Sometimes, you might run into the situation where the Live Corner widgets are not showing.

First, check that your Adobe Illustrator version is no earlier than the Illustrator CC/17.1 version, which introduced Live Corners.

Second, make sure View > Show Corner Widgets is on.

Third, check if the anchor point is actually a corner. Select the point using the Direct Selection Tool, and then head over to the Convert section in the Control bar and click the Convert selected anchor points to corner icon.

If you still cannot round the corners after this point, then the issue is probably due to the object being too small. To solve it, scale the object until you see the widgets appear. This might disrupt the original object size, but after making the rounding corner modification, you can simply scale it back.

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2. Other Techniques to Round Corners In Illustrator

There are various methods to quickly round corners or edges on a path or shape, using Illustrator’s basic tools. Let’s have a look at the options.

Method 1: Learn How to Use the Anchor Point Tool

Sometimes, when a path or shape is selected, it might display both sharp edges and smooth corners.

You will notice that some corners will not have Live Corners. The sharp edges will show anchor points with no handles, while smooth corners are presented as anchor points with handles.

To edit the smooth corners, you must convert them to sharp anchor points. To do so, use the Anchor Point Tool (Command-C). So to convert the sharp corners, just click, drag, and release an anchor point to drag the handles out.

And to convert smooth corners, simply click the anchor point to remove the handles, and then adjust the rounding using the Direct Selection Tool (A).

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Method 2: Round Corners Using the Convert Button Option

This method of rounding corners in Illustrator uses the Convert button option.

If you have a single anchor point selected, move over to the Properties panel, where you will notice a Convert section displayed. The first button will convert to a sharp corner, while the second button will Convert selected anchor points to smooth.

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Convert sharp corners to smooth from Properties Panel’s Convert options

Method 3: How to Apply a Stylize Effect to Round Corners

Next, learn how to round the corners of rectangles in Illustrator, or basically any shape that needs round edges.

Once you have the shape selected, apply Effect > Stylize > Round Corners, and you will see the dynamic effect being applied uniformly to the appearance of your object. You can define the curvature of the rounded curve by setting the Round Corners: Radius pt value, from the dialog box.

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3. How to Apply Round Corners to an Image in Adobe Illustrator

For the last method, let’s assume you have a photo image and you want to know how to make rounded corners in Illustrator. We have used a colorful educational toy photo from Envato Elements for this quick tip.

Step 1

Import the image onto your artboard (File > Place). Then choose the Polygon Tool, under Rectangle Tool (M) in the Tools menu, and draw a hexagon shape over the image.

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Step 2

Select both the hexagon and the photo using the Selection Tool (V). Then Object > Clipping Mask > Make (Command-7) to create a clipping set that masks the photo.

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Step 3

Then take the Direct Selection Tool (A), hold the Shift key, and select multiple Live Corners nodes from the top and bottom of the hexagon. Drag the nodes towards the center of the shape, and you will have rounded the image corners.

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You Gained a Skill!

Now you have gained the skills of how to round corners in Illustrator! This will definitely ease your workflow and productivity.

If you have any questions on how to round edges or corners in Illustrator, simply leave a comment below.

Do check out these other handy tutorials from Envato Tuts+ to kick-start your design career! As always, thanks for following!

Would you like to learn other useful tips in Adobe Illustrator CC? Head on over to our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel.

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How to Create Viking Portrait Art in Photoshop

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What You’ll Be Creating

Today we will be learning how to create Viking portrait art in Photoshop using snow overlays and quick lighting techniques! Vikings have always captured artists’ imaginations, but thanks to popular Norse lore and culture being incorporated into things like comics and superhero movies, they are more popular than ever. 

If you want to create a snowy Viking portrait effect in half the time, try out one of the several snow-creating actions over on Envato Elements! Create dynamic snow in seconds—just press play!

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What You’ll Learn in This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

  • How to create a Viking warrior painting in Photoshop
  • How to create a sunset background in Photoshop 
  • How to create a snowstorm in Photoshop 
  • How to create a color grade in Photoshop 

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What You’ll Need

To complete this project, you will need the following resources:

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1. How to Create a Viking Poster Background

Step 1

Let’s start by assembling a quick fiery sunset background. We’ll be adding a strong blur to the whole environment, so don’t worry about stretching images or doing any precise extractions.

Let’s drop our first sunset sky image onto our canvas, making sure it fills the entire width of the canvas. If there’s space at the bottom of the canvas, that’s perfectly fine.

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Step 2

Next, add a second deep red sunset image, placed over the first and set to Screen. We’re adding a red foggy mist effect. If there are any harsh edges, you can remove them using a layer mask, but it’s likely unnecessary.

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Step 3

Now, we can quickly extract some large snowy mountains from their backgrounds.

I used the Object Select tool and a layer mask to extract mine and then did a touch of refining using Select and Mask.

Do just enough refinement so that the edges aren’t too jagged, and there are no visible edges of the sky. Again, there’s no need to be precise here.

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Step 4

With the mountains cut out, let’s Right-click > Convert to Smart Object.

Then we can place our mountain’s peak towards the bottom of the canvas, add a Layer Mask, and use a soft round Brush to blend the bottom of the mountains into the red mist. We can also change the mountain’s layer to 50% Opacity.

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Step 5

Once you’re happy with the mountain range, duplicate the layer, flip it horizontally, and add a smaller mountain to the left side of the image.

Let’s place it slightly further back, making it smaller, and bringing down its Opacity to 30%. Also, use a soft round Brush to blend the image into the mist, just like the larger mountains.

Make sure to make any final adjustments to both of the mountain’s placements, as they will be harder to adjust from here on out.

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Step 6

With the mountain range done, we can add some final lighting. Go to Select > Color Range and color pick the brightest portion of the right-side mountain.

Adjust the Fuzziness value so that only the brightest areas of the mountain face are shown in white. Everything that appears in white will be selected. Below is what my selection looked like with a Fuzziness of 47:

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Step 7

Create a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer. The layer mask will automatically take the shape of the selection.

Let’s set the Brightness/Contrast settings to 10 Brightness and 50 Contrast, brightening the inner-facing mountain.

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Step 8

Now, let’s create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with the settings Hue: +29 and Saturation: + 67.

Hold Alt and drag and drop a copy of the Brightness/Contrast layer mask onto the Hue/Saturation layer mask. That’ll give our mountain a subtle hint of color, reflecting off the lit snow.

Repeat those same steps to give a bit of color and brightness to the smaller mountain face.

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Step 9

Let’s tie all the background elements together with a Color Lookup adjustment layer set to Tension Green at 26% Opacity.

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Step 10

Finally, let’s group all of the background layers, and then Right-click > Convert to Smart Object.

We can finish off the background by adding a Filter > Blur Gallery > Field Blur. We’re setting the Blur to 20 pixels. And then set the Bokeh to 26% Light with a Light Range of 34 to 255.

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2. How to Create a Viking Portrait

Step 1

Now that the background’s done, let’s create our Viking portrait!

Extract your Viking using your preferred method. I like to use a mixture of the Pen tool and Select and Mask, but any way will work.

Let’s create and clip a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer into the Viking portrait, setting the adjustment layer to +20 Brightness.

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Step 2

Now, let’s duplicate the Viking portrait layer, bring it below the original, and set the Layer Mode to Screen. If it has a layer mask, go ahead and first Right-click > Convert to Smart Object, and then set the layer to Screen.

Now, create and clip a soft golden yellow #f2d799 Color Fill layer into the duplicated Viking layer. We’re going to use the Transform Warp Mode to pull on the duplicated layer, making it so that parts of the yellow peek through from behind the fur.

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Step 3

Then we can create a Layer Mask on the yellow layer, fill it with black using Control-I, and then mask back in areas of yellow behind the Viking.

Focus on bringing in the bright yellow on areas with either cloth or fur. Doing this creates a super quick backlighting effect. If needed, you can repeat those steps to create even more backlit hair or fur.

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Step 4

Create a New Layer below the backlit hair layers, and set it to Screen. Using a soft round brush and the same pale yellow color, let’s finish up the fur by adding some extra glow.

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Step 5

Next, we can paint in some simple blood drips and splatter onto the Viking’s ax and body. 

I have a whole tutorial on how I like to paint quick and easy blood that you can check out on Envato Tuts+!

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3. How to Create Vibrant Viking Portrait Art

Step 1

To make our Viking portrait art stand out, we’re going to introduce some vibrant reds (#8b352d), oranges (#e8c04f), and blues (#71919c) into the sky.

First, create a New Layer set to Multiply.

Now, using a soft round Brush set to a Flow of just 5%, paint blue on the blue parts of the sky, orange on the orange parts, and red on the red parts.

Focus on the outer parts of the image, keeping the middle of the image bright. This will darken and deepen the sky, so we want to avoid going too dark. However, If you feel it is a little too dark, you can always lower the layer’s Opacity.

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Step 2

Next, we’re going to repeat that step one more time, only this time on a layer set to Overlay.

Use the same red, orange, and blue colors and the same soft round Brush. That’ll also give the image a Viking warrior painting effect.

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Step 3

Now, let’s bring some of those reds, blues, and oranges into the subject himself.

First, create and clip a New Layer into the subject and set it to Multiply at 70% Opacity. Then we can paint in some shadows using a dark red (#310d09) color, focusing the color on the inner part of the subject.

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Step 4

To bring back some of the highlights, we want to double-click the layer and adjust its Blend If settings. Hold Alt to split the white toggles, and pull them to the left.

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Step 5

Now, create and clip a New Layer set to Screen. Paint some light orange (#ecba67) onto the armor, body, and ax.

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Step 6

As before, we’ll adjust the Blend If settings. This time, though, we remove the orange color from the shadowy areas using the gray toggles.

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Step 7

Create and clip three New Layers into the subject. Set one to Soft Light, the second to Lighten, and the third to Screen.

Use all three layers to paint various shades of orange on the subject. We want to focus the lighting on the subject’s edges but bring light washes of color towards the center. Use Blend If to bring back shadows if needed, and keep your brush’s Flow rate below 10%.

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4. How to Create Atmosphere in Photoshop

Step 1

Let’s tie our Viking fantasy warrior into their new environment by adding in some atmosphere.

Drag and drop the deep red sunset stock image we used to create the red mist, setting the layer to Lighten. Flip and adjust the mist so that it ends right at the subject’s waist.

Add a Layer Mask and mask out the top portion of the clouds, making sure there are no harsh edges and everything blends nicely.

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Step 2

Next, create a New Layer and set it to Lighten.

Now, using the same red (#8b352d), orange (#e8c04f), and blue (#71919c) colors and the same soft round Brush we used earlier, paint blooms of light over the subject and into the sky.

We want to keep this very subtle, building the light up slowly and using a low Flow rate. If the effect is too strong, use Blend If to lessen or remove it from the image’s shadows.

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5. How to Create a Snowstorm in Photoshop

Step 1

Let’s create a super quick snowstorm effect to finish off the Viking fantasy warrior vibe.

The best way to create quick snow is to use PNG overlays like these snowy overlays from Envato Elements. Directly above the background and below the lighting layers, let’s place overlay 17 from the Snow pack, setting the layer to Overlay.

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Step 2

Next, above all other layers, let’s drop overlay 8, keeping it set to Normal and enlarging it slightly.

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Step 3

Now, let’s drop overlay 1, enlarging it as well, and then setting its layer mode to Overlay.

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Step 4

We can then duplicate Overlay 1, change its layer mode to Soft Light, and adjust its placement to add even more snow. The trick is to avoid any patterns in the snow. You can also try flipping the overlay horizontally.

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Step 5

Now, if the snow overlays aren’t already, convert them all into Smart Objects.

Let’s go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and set the Angle to 35 with a 113 Distance.

Copy this same filter onto all of the topmost snowy overlays.

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Step 6

Finish up the snow by adding a Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to the snow layer set to Overlay. Let’s give it a Radius of 16–17.

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Step 7

We can then group the topmost snow layers and use a layer mask to remove most of the snow from the subject’s face.

And suppose you’d like the snow to be even heavier. In that case, you can always duplicate the group or add more individual snow overlays.

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6. How to Create a Vibrant Color Grade in Photoshop

Step 1

Finally, we can finish up with a color grade!

Start with a Color Lookup layer set to Edgey Amber, with a layer mode of Multiply and a 23% Opacity.

Then, add a second Color Lookup layer set to Film Stock and a 32% Opacity.

Finally, add a third Color Lookup layer set to Teal Orange and a 24% Opacity.

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Step 2

And lastly, a Selective Color adjustment layer affecting the Reds, Yellows, Whites, Grays, and Blacks.

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We Did It!

That’s all there is to creating a Viking warrior painting effect in Photoshop! Pair your Viking portrait with a cool Viking font to create an instant action movie poster, or change up the colors from reds and oranges to blues and grays for a more frozen Viking effect!

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Want More Viking-Themed Resources? 

Mjölnir: Nordic Tribal Font

This Viking font is inspired by Nordic runes. The Viking rune font contains both uppercase and lower case characters and is ideal for Viking posters, logos, and flyers, thanks to its bold yet detailed design! 

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Real Snow Photoshop Action

The Real Snow Photoshop action creates instant snowstorms or gently falling snow depending on what you need! It creates a unique effect every time, so you won’t have to worry about repeating the same effect over and over. 

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Jotunheim Typeface

Another Nordic font inspired by ancient runes, this Viking rune font remains legible thanks to its clean, bold lines and variety of different character options. 

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Ancient Scandinavian Rune

The Ancient Scandinavian Rune bundle is perfect for when you want to add authentic rune designs to your Viking posters or any other Nordic projects. They are also printable as cards!  

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Lexaviers

Lexaviers is a Nordic font that was crafted by hand, so it has a rough, jagged feel. It remains readable, and it contains both upper and lower case characters as well as numbers, symbols, and more!

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