This article explains the 12 basic principles of animation, borrowed from their 1981 book “The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation”.
Creating cast shadows for small icons
In the following two blog posts, we’d like to share our method of creating cast shadows in Photoshop. In this first post we’ll let you in on how we make cast shadows for small icons. In the next blogpost we will show you how we usually create cast shadows for larger icons, eg. for webapps and native OSX apps.
Setting Type for User Interfaces
While we read, our eyes move unpredictably from word to word, rather than in a linear fashion.
A list of important principles of user interface design.
A while back, Marc Edwards tweeted:
8 bits per channel really isn’t enough colour resolution, even for fairly basic compositing (note the banding)
Only now I realized I should probably share one of my daily actions I use in Photoshop. Like Marc, I work in 8-bits/channel, which I think…
Closing all layer groups (folders) at once in Photoshop
Did you know that you can close more than one layer group (folders) at a time in Photoshop’s Layer palette? You can with just two quick steps. Control + click the arrow on the left side of aGroup layer (folder) in the Layer palette and choose Close All Other Groups. Now you’ll have to Control + click click the same arrow again and select Close This Group, because Adobe didn’t provide us with a “Close All Groups” menu item.
Good read about gradient layer in Ps. If you unfamiliar and never used it
I like to clean and stay organized. It really helps me stay in a good mood, find things, and it gives me a productivity boost. Yet it’s so easy to fall into the trap of incrementally losing control of it all. Every second I lose looking for something through the clutter I’ve created becomes a…
if you need this. I almost already used it.
