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Hey and welcome back.

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We're going to be talking about visual assets now, I promise you, visual assets will be a part of

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every single project you work on, whether it's imagery, illustrations or iconography.

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Sometimes your clients may come to you with assets of their own.

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And the ugly truth is sometimes they're really bad.

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It's something that we got to learn how to navigate.

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But let's get into something else.

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Projects and deadlines, just sometimes they move so quick and you don't have that budget to hire a

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photographer or even hire an illustrator.

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And that sucks.

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But if you do have a budget and if you do have the time, please do hire a photographer.

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It does make a world of difference, especially even with illustrators as well.

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Please hire them if you do have that budget and that time.

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So sometimes you do get lucky, sometimes you have amazing assets to work with, whether they're good

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photography like this, this is something I quickly put together with on Splash.

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But if your client comes to you with something like this, this is something that's great to work with.

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Maybe they've had good photography done beforehand, maybe some illustration and iconography.

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I feel like iconography is never really the problem on this list.

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They generally trust a product designer.

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You desire to do what's best.

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And the other scenario is that you're not so lucky.

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You may get stock photos.

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You know, stock photos are horrible.

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Some of them are OK, but most of them are bad.

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And please don't ever use them.

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This is the moment you should really sit down with your client or product team or both and talk about

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ways you can improve on that because anything is really better than this.

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Now, there are a couple of resources that can help you.

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I really love using Unspotted.

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You can use your website or you can use the Sigma plugin, which we'll get into later.

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Now, this is totally free and you don't need to really credit anyone.

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All the images on here you can just use and you can also just search by keyword.

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You can search randomly, you can search by category.

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They have a great like foundry of imagery.

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And some of it's really amazing actually for illustrations.

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I love using Sigma plugins like Blush Illustrations and as humans.

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So these are really great.

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This is blush over here.

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It will allow you to kind of mix and match some illustrations.

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The only thing is it's paid.

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But you can get a good sense of, if you like, an illustration and want to use it later.

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This is called humans.

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This is another plugin that allows you to kind of piece together different types of scenarios you can

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use, like a head, whatever shirt you want, and we'll get into that as well.

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And illustrations is another fun one.

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You'll get the SVG as well as for Fagerberg.

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And this is what's really great and you can go out and buy illustrations as well.

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But sometimes they do get expensive.

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So I suggest using something like this and seeing where you can go from there for icons.

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I love using material icons.

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They're easy to use.

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The website's easy to use.

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You can pick out whatever you want, whether the themes are filled, outlines, rounded, tutone or

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sharp.

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You have the ability to just search by whatever keyword you want and you can easily grab an icon and

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upload that into.

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Sigma Sigma also has several plug ins that will go over.

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One is called Icona Find the other one.

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They do have a material design plug in that we can use as well.

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So let's jump right into Sigma and I'll show you how to work with different types of imagery and illustration

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and icons.