Showing posts with label Photoshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photoshop. Show all posts
March 30, 2011
March 26, 2011
Tips to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers
We designers tend to get frustrated with developers when they take liberties with our work. But we have to understand they’re not entirely at fault.Put yourself in their shoes: imagine what it’s like opening a Photoshop file (PSD), only to find a jumble of poorly labeled layers and folders, plus a heap of unchecked hidden layers and other half-baked ideas that didn’t make it to fruition.
The following tutorial outlines how to create organized, designer and developer friendly PSD files.
This is in no way the only solution, but hopefully it will encourage better practice in the web design world.
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March 10, 2011
Useful Free resources(psd files) for Web / Graphics Designer
There are tons of useful and quality free web & graphic design resources on the Internet. But finding & choosing the right one that suits your needs can be a tedious task as it is time consuming and tiresome.
Keeping this in mind, we have collected a list of some of the best websites that provide graphic designers enough food for thought. It's all available for FREE!
The websites listed below offer you a collection of the latest & high-quality website templates, Wordpress templates, Twitter background, vector graphics, logos, icons, creative business cards, text effects, photo manipulations, psd wallpapers and much more for FREE. You’ll be able to download the files instantly without signing up or paying a single dollar. But please ensure that it doesn't violate any copyright laws.
February 15, 2011
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful.Take back your PSDs and become a Layer Mayor! Learn more...
February 8, 2011
A Hassle-Free Way to Search FREE PSD files
There are tons of free high-quality psd files on the web. No more searching for free PSD files on numerous sites to find and download the high quality ones.
SearchPSD, a search engine to find free psd files online. SearchPSD allows users to find more free psd files based on keywords or category. There are over 1,500 free psd files you can get from there. And you can also submit your own psd files to the site.
Learm more, http://searchpsd.com
SearchPSD, a search engine to find free psd files online. SearchPSD allows users to find more free psd files based on keywords or category. There are over 1,500 free psd files you can get from there. And you can also submit your own psd files to the site.
Learm more, http://searchpsd.com
December 22, 2010
Burn Tool / Dodge Tool
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| Burn Tool / Dodge Tool |
Bringing light and shadow into flat images can be a challenging thing to do convincingly. The burn tool and the dodge tool are both designed to help you accomplish this task in a realistic and believable way.
As long as you follow some basic guidelines, you'll have no trouble creating images with real depth. But what are those guidelines? Read on for the simple guide to authentic shadow and light.
February 1, 2010
Photoshop - 15 very important and useful tricks
Following are 15 very important and useful tricks :
1. Press D to get default foreground and background colours. ( Black/white ).
2. Press X to toggle between foreground and background colour palette.
3. To fill object with foreground colour use alt + backspace.
4. To fill object with background colour use ctrl + backspace.
5. To change blending mode quickly use alt + shift + alphabet
(e.g) like V for vivid and S for screen etc.
6. To toggle between various blending modes use shift + ( Plus sign ).
7. To increase brush size use ( [ ) OR ( ] ) a 10px jump.
8. To add to selection use shift key and the subtract from selection use alt key.
9. Use TAB key to hide and unhide palettes.
10.To hide / unhide all palettes except tools use shift + TAB.
11.Use ctrl and + to zoom in / ctrl and - to zoom out.
12.Press F to shuffle between various screen modes.
13.Press Q to shuffle between standard and quick mask mode.
14.Double clicking on ruler will bring up the preference dialogue box.
15. Use ctrl + T to transform the shape.
1. Press D to get default foreground and background colours. ( Black/white ).
2. Press X to toggle between foreground and background colour palette.
3. To fill object with foreground colour use alt + backspace.
4. To fill object with background colour use ctrl + backspace.
5. To change blending mode quickly use alt + shift + alphabet
(e.g) like V for vivid and S for screen etc.
6. To toggle between various blending modes use shift + ( Plus sign ).
7. To increase brush size use ( [ ) OR ( ] ) a 10px jump.
8. To add to selection use shift key and the subtract from selection use alt key.
9. Use TAB key to hide and unhide palettes.
10.To hide / unhide all palettes except tools use shift + TAB.
11.Use ctrl and + to zoom in / ctrl and - to zoom out.
12.Press F to shuffle between various screen modes.
13.Press Q to shuffle between standard and quick mask mode.
14.Double clicking on ruler will bring up the preference dialogue box.
15. Use ctrl + T to transform the shape.
