
Reader Douglas R. wrote in and asked if I can share few tricks and shortcuts to work around Photoshop more efficiently. I thought that’s an interesting topic, but that being said, depending on your job nature you’ll tend to have different list of frequently-used shortcuts.
As a designer cum developer, here’s 5 Photoshop shortcuts/tricks I frequently use. If you have something cool to share, feel free to leave them in comment box.
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We know we can always count on the Internet for free quality icons, but that being said, free icons sometimes might have it’s limitation too. Here’s few we can quickly think of:
- Copyright. Most free icons restricts usage on non-commercial product/website only.
- Size. Don’t you just hate it when you found your favorite icon but it’s only a 32×32 and you wish they have a bigger version?
- Colors. You found the exact icon you want, but the color is just not right.
- Transparency. Some author did not distribute their free icon in .PNG or original source. That makes it hard to implement their icons on our design.
Creating your own icon not only overcome above mentioned problem, at the same time you gain and brush up your Photoshop skills. Nothing beats the satisfaction of creating things on your own. We’ve crawled the net, searching from sites to sites and here’s a 40+ hand-picked Photoshop tutorials that guide you through icon designing. Have fun.
You might also be interested in these following Photoshop articles we’ve previously published.
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Previously, I mentioned about a neat Firefox trick that allows you to duplicate the tab on the fly by just dragging it to a new space. Anyway here what I failed to figure out, and thought would be cool to have:
- Support Mac’s Firefox
- Keyboard shortcut instead of mouse dragging
Thanks for readers tip-in, there’s work around for both now.
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About 5 months ago, we brought you an ultimate list for RSS Icons. 5 months later, a number of great free RSS icons flushed the Internet and the ultimate list just wasn’t too ultimate anymore. To find more cool RSS icons, we re-crawled the Internet. We’ve even looked into free icon package so we don’t missed any cool RSS icons.
Here’s some really cool RSS feed icons for your blog or website. Full list after jump.
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We’ve all seen logos that look similar to each other, but probably not as much as what logodesignlove.com has got to show. Over at their blog, these folks showcase 19 pairs of logo that looks similar to each other. Are designers already at the last drop of their creative juice, or is it just trend influences? Here’s 3 pairs of logos I thought are interesting, for the full list, check out logodesignlove.

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Here’s a rather quick way to duplicate one Firefox tab to another without the need to open new tab, retype the url and wait for the webpage to load. All you need to do is hold Control (Windows) key, drag the current tab to a new place (you’ll see a + sign when you drag), release it and brand new tab is created with the exact same website. Little nice find by Ashish of Technospot.
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Inspired and reminded by TV programme The Universe of History Channel on TV, I realized that my time machine desktop wallpaper is already old and boring. In the search for another space/universe-alike wallpaper, I happened to came across a lot of really nice ones. The launch of Mac OSX Leopard probably kicks these space wallpapers back into trend.
In case you are looking for a fresh look for your desktop, try some of these space wallpapers. For starters try these 60+ absolutely stunning space and planets wallpapers (most in really high resolutions) I’ve found, starting off with 3 default space wallpapers that comes with Mac OSX Leopard. Full list after jump.
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