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Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques

Posted by Adrian Taylor on March 9, 2012 · Comments Off

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 making changes late in the game. Sure, we’ve got “Undo” [...]

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Conversation Techniques For Designers

Posted by Darren Geraghty on September 29, 2011 · Comments Off

Designers are visually literate creatures. We use visuals to express our ideas, whether by building wireframes, sketching interfaces or pushing pixels. As a result, the majority of knowledge captured when we design a product is some form of “corporate memory”: [...]

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Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools

Posted by Smashing Editorial on April 18, 2011 · Comments Off

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have collected, analyzed, curated and feature latest useful resources for your convenience, so you can use them right away or save them for future reference.Please don’t hesitate to comment [...]

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Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop

Posted by Marc Edwards on April 14, 2011 · Comments Off

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 small changes to your workflow, you should be able to maintain the highest-quality [...]

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Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques

Posted by Harry Roberts on March 14, 2011 · Comments Off

The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading. With this in mind, does it not stand to reason that your typography should be one of the most considered aspects of your designs?Unfortunately, for every person who is obsessed with even the tiniest [...]

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Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

Posted by Dirk Metzmacher on March 9, 2011 · Comments Off

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 the workflow of our colleagues and learn new design approaches. We have had articles on cloning, [...]

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Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

Posted by Dirk Metzmacher on March 9, 2011 · Comments Off

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 the workflow of our colleagues and learn new design approaches. We have had articles on cloning, [...]

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Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles

Posted by Marc Edwards on February 7, 2011 · Comments Off

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 a huge range of experiments to determine the benefits and [...]

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Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow

Posted by Marc Edwards on November 17, 2010 · Comments Off

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 only using Apple’s user interface elements, most of the [...]

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Web Typography: 100 Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

Posted by Vitaly Friedman on November 16, 2010 · Comments Off

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 as excited as we are, we should not forget about the foundational principles of good type design [...]

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