Posts Tagged as photoshop

Build Working Concepts to Communicate your Ideas more Effectively

December 21st, 2009 11 Comments

The general convention in web design is to present static images of designs to clients but what happens when you have an idea that can’t be visually presented in this form? Perhaps it is some form of interaction or animation that can breathe extra life into the design.

Of course you could just explain your idea to the client but the problem here is they may not understand what you mean or have a hard time visualising it. The next step is to show them something similar on another site but there is still a disconnect from what you want the client to see and what they’re actually seeing.

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Advanced Photoshop Techniques that you may not be aware of

October 22nd, 2009 67 Comments

Photoshop is one of the most widely tools used for web design. Most web designers don’t use all of the great things that Photoshop can do. It’s easy to get stuck in your ways but instead you should be looking to further improve your skills and learn new techniques to improve your web design work, work flow and productivity.

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Quick Tip: Create New Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop to Increase Productivity

August 4th, 2009 2 Comments

Let’s just start off by saying that Adobe haven’t exactly put as much effort into keyboard shortcuts as they could have. You’re all familiar with the claw right? This is a reference to the complex nature of the ’save for web’ shortcut Cmd + Alt + Shift + S (Ctrl + Alt + Shift + [...]

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View Photoshop Files in Safari

June 30th, 2009 3 Comments

A quick and little known tip is that you can view Photoshop files (.psd) in Safari. This is great for previewing a design in a browser without having to constantly save out to a jpg.

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