Posts Tagged ‘Photoshop’
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The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
- November 2nd, 2009
- 67 Comments
As printed typography enjoys the fruits of high-DPI glory, proudly displaying its beautiful curves and subtleties, its on-screen counterpart remains stifled by bulky pixels, living in a world of jagged edges, distorted letterforms and trimmed serifs. Until display manufacturers produce affordable 200 or 300 PPI monitors, we’ll have to rely ...
Read more...Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development
- October 12th, 2009
- 106 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator
- September 19th, 2009
- 28 Comments
Photoshop and Illustrator, as we’ve all come to realize, have revolutionized contemporary design and illustration, unleashing the creative potential of artists the world over. Through this tutorial, we’ll take you through process and technique, from sketch to Photoshop to Illustrator, so that you can learn skills to complement your ample ...
Read more...Mastering Photoshop With Paths
- August 18th, 2009
- 75 Comments
Anomalously residing within the pixel-gridded world of Photoshop are a series of tools waiting to break out of the canvas’ inherent squareness. Mastering these tools opens the stage for a higher level of flexibility, full of clean lines and non-destructive editing. Presented here is a guide to help you build ...
Read more...10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance
- August 13th, 2009
- 95 Comments
Before getting started with Photoshop, we all should have first visited the “Edit > Preferences” menu and change the “Performance” settings to fit our personal taste and computer specifications, but this isn’t always the case – in many situations designers simply forget these aspects. If you never changed the default performance ...
Read more...A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters
- August 3rd, 2009
- 214 Comments
The Photoshop community is choc-full of many free resources, tutorials, tips and techniques, .psd files and even Actions. There is one area that it sadly lacks in, and that is free plugins and filters. Of course, Photoshop has been the pioneer in graphic editor development for a long time now, ...
Read more...30 Free Photoshop Swirl Brushes
- June 20th, 2009
- 66 Comments
Today we are glad to release 30 Swirl Brushes, a set with 30 high-quality swirl Photoshop brushes with an average size 2000px. These brushes were created with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and also work with the version CS, CS2 and CS3. This set was designed by Thomas Béal especially for Smashing ...
Read more...60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisment Tutorials
- June 1st, 2009
- 77 Comments
Everyone in the business world knows the importance of posters and ads in advertising for specific products. Posters are an integral part of advertising. An eye-catching, attractive poster that conveys a professional, compelling message about a product, service or event will invariably hold the user’s attention. In this article, we have ...
Read more...Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers
- May 29th, 2009
- 58 Comments
In a day in age where there are just as many freelancers as there are university educated designers, developers, and all around web gurus, it is amazing to me how much many of us don’t know or have forgot about our trade. As a self-taught designer, I will admit ...
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