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Responsive LayoutsHow To Maintain Hierarchy Through Content Choreography

From Steven Bradley
April 25th, 2013
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One of the issues we need to be concerned with in responsive design is how to maintain hierarchy as elements on the screen are resized and reflowed. Trent Walton first called attention to the issue with his post “Content Choreography,” which showed how visual hierarchy gets lost when columns are ...

Design StrategyCreating Wireframes And Prototypes With InDesign

From Shlomo Goltz
March 7th, 2013
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Hundreds of tools may be available for interaction designers, but there is still no industry standard for interaction design the way Photoshop and Illustrator are to graphic design. Popular programs are out there, but many of them have considerable drawbacks, which has led me to explore alternative apps. I eventually chose ...

Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques

From Adrian Taylor
March 9th, 2012
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The creative process is not a linear one. As artists and designers, we often set off in one direction only to decide that the proper solution lies somewhere else completely. Unfortunately, many of the creative software packages we use (Photoshop in particular) can be pretty unforgiving when in comes to ...

Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop

From Marc Edwards
April 14th, 2011
113 Comments

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 ...

Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop

From Dirk Metzmacher
March 25th, 2011
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Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will be quite useful for your workflow. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. We ...

Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

From Dirk Metzmacher
March 9th, 2011
99 Comments

When it comes to designing in Photoshop, there is a myriad of ways one could use to achieve a certain result, especially when it comes to photo retouching. Designers use technique they are most confident as well as comfortable with, which is great because it’s always useful to peek into ...

Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles

From Marc Edwards
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 ...

Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

From The Smashing Editorial
November 16th, 2010
46 Comments

Web typography has evolved a lot over the last years. Today we see rich, accessible typography, a plethora of type design choices for the web and a number of remarkable, type-based web designs. It’s a great time for web design, and it’s a great time for web typography. Still, being ...

Useful Adobe Photoshop Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

From Vitaly Friedman
September 22nd, 2010
58 Comments

As web designers, we always have something new to learn. Over the last decade our workflow has changed dramatically — it’s become more sophisticated and highly diversified. Not only do we have a much larger variety of improved tools to use; there’s also an endless stream of new techniques emerging ...

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