Posts Tagged ‘techniques’
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Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques
- March 9th, 2012
- 36 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop
- April 14th, 2011
- 110 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 ...
Read more...Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop
- March 25th, 2011
- 43 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching
- March 9th, 2011
- 97 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 ...
Read more...Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles
- February 7th, 2011
- 132 Comments
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 ...
Read more...Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques
- 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 ...
Read more...Useful Adobe Photoshop Techniques, Tutorials and Tools
- September 22nd, 2010
- 59 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 ...
Read more...Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools
- October 22nd, 2009
- 86 Comments
Let’s face it: Web-safe fonts are very limiting. Maybe a dozen fonts are out there that are widely enough adopted to be considered “Web safe,” and those ones aren’t exactly spectacular for much other than body type. Sure, Georgia, Arial or Times New Roman work just fine for the bulk ...
Read more...50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills
- August 30th, 2009
- 67 Comments
Photography is a wonderful hobby enjoyed by lots of people all over the world. It’s a very enjoyable passtime, but also a very technical one. There’s a bewildering range of cameras, lenses and accessories, and photographers also have to get to grips with computers and image editing software packages. It ...
Read more...PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques
- July 25th, 2009
- 38 Comments
This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. ...
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