Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’

Here’s an excellent guide on how to use Photoshop smarter by using linked SmartObjects. This technique, along with the new Creative Cloud Libraries, can make it easier for visual designers to craft atomic design systems in Photoshop.

This is great. Diego Andrés Aranda runs through how to accomplish an atomic design workflow in Photoshop. It’s in Spanish, so here’s an English translation. From what I can gather, it’s a matter of stitching together Smart Objects and organizing […]

A library of reusable components in Photoshop? Yes please! Dan explains how crucial Creative Cloud’s new library panel is for establishing design systems and utilizing reusable components. I can see this saving a ton of time as it takes a […]

As we enter the post-PSD era, it’s important to help previously-abused tools shed their stereotypes. Dan Rose (also the creator of the excellent Photoshop Etiquette site), came out with a wonderful roundup of modern Photoshop resources to help web designers […]

Here’s design extraordinaire Dan Mall with a follow up to my thoughts on The Post-PSD Era. Dan deftly explains how everything comes down to setting client expectations up front and building great collaborative teams. A++++ post.

Are we entering the Post-PSD Era of web design? Throughout my career, I’ve watched immensely talented designers waste a shitload of time creating fully fleshed-out comps of what a website could look like. Pixels get pushed, details are sweated, pages […]

This is the 4th installment of my “weekly” design project. Carrying along the same tradition as the previous design, I’m having fun arranging concentric circles in semi-irregular patterns. Check it out on Flickr.

As a web developer working with a variety of designers, I often find myself in situations where I need to create rollover states in Photoshop for text assets whose fonts I don’t have installed on my computer. Here’s a technique to bypass that problem entirely.

This is the third installment of my “weekly” design series. I guess I should have been more realistic in regards to how consistent I would be with this project, but thankfully only a week slipped by. Blue, orange and concentric […]

This was a school project I did when I was first learning Photoshop. I recently stumbled onto it hiding in my folders and thought that I’d share it. *Important Note* This project was done almost 3 years ago, before the […]

So I designed this to be my new profile picture for my ever-expanding collection of social networking websites. I hand drew a picture from a photo and messed around in Photoshop. I’m not the best at Photoshop, so I’d really […]

Christmas time was fast approaching and the idea popped into my head to create a custom Monopoly game for my family. I remember seeing something for a “Make Your Own Opoly” game, but when i checked it out, I found […]