Smashing Magazine — Marc Edwards

Author: Marc Edwards

Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) is the Director & Lead Designer at Bjango (@bjango) and co-host of the Iterate podcast (@iteratetv).

Congratulations. You’ve just completed a pixel-perfect mock-up of an app, and you’ve gotten the nod from everyone on the team. All that’s left to do is save the tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of production assets required to bring it to life. It’s probably the least interesting part of designing ...

Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop

April 14th, 2011
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When creating Web and app interfaces, most designers slave over every single pixel, making sure it’s got exactly the right color, texture and position. If you’re not careful, though, some common functions like moving, rotating and pasting can undo your hard work, resulting in a blurry mess. But with some ...

Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles

February 7th, 2011
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Often, it’s the little details that turn a good layout into a great design; details such as subtle textures, shading and smooth shapes. Photoshop contains a vast array of tools for embellishing a design, but choosing the right one isn’t always easy. Being the obsessive-compulsives that we are, we’ve conducted ...

Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow

November 17th, 2010
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The iPhone 4 features a vastly superior display resolution (614400 pixels) over previous iPhone models, containing quadruple the 153600-pixel display of the iPhone 3GS. The screen is the same physical size, so those extra dots are used for additional detail — twice the detail horizontally, and twice vertically. For developers ...

Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

October 12th, 2009
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Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all. So how can we achieve color ...