Entries filed under 'Photoshop'
Simple Photoshop tricks: Creating interesting drop shadows
Filed under Photoshop, Design on 23.06.07
Continuing my series of very simple little techniques you can use in Photoshop, here’s a quick tip for making drop shadows on sidebars or similar look a little more interesting.
Fire up Photoshop and on a new layer create a sidebar-shaped rectangle that is the same colour as your background (I’m using white here). Now duplicate that layer, name it ‘Shadow’, and drag it below the sidebar layer in the Layers palette.
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Simple Photoshop tricks: Thick lines for definition
Filed under Photoshop, Design on 25.08.06
Time for yet another simple Photoshop trick, although technically this one isn’t so much about Photoshop as it is a design or layout idea.
Say you have a list of something on your page, be it products, comments or whatever; and each item has a mix of content – heading, text, list, image(s) – which make it difficult to clearly see where one item ends and the next begins.
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Simple Photoshop tricks: Finding a complementary colour
Filed under Photoshop, Design on 11.07.06
Continuing my series of stupidly simple Photoshop tips, here is how I select a complementary colour when I need a highlight (or lowlight) for a design element.
I’m useless at picking colours that go well together, so when designing I rely heavily on tools like the Well Styled Color Scheme Generator, the Color Schemer and (my personal favourite) Behr’s ColorSmart tool to pick colours that go well together.
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Simple Photoshop tricks: Soft Light
Filed under Photoshop, Design on 22.06.06
If you’re anything like me (a developer-cum-codemonkey working as a designer), you probably feel pretty dumb when it comes to working up design comps, especially when ‘proper’ graphic designers make it seem so effortless. You might have a pretty good handle on the theory behind layout, typography, colour selection and all that jazz, but when it comes to converting that knowledge into a great design… the final product sometimes seems to be so much less than the sum of its parts.
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