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:
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:
Thanks for readers tip-in, there’s work around for both now.
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.
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.
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 by The Universe of History Channel on TV, I come to find that my time machine desktop wallpapers 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 to the 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.
According to yesterday’s Google Analytic report, hongkiat.com has again covered a new milestone in terms of traffics; something I anticipated to happen this end of July happened yesterday - we’ve crossed the 1,000,000 pageviews/month and we still have another week to go before July ends.
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About 10 years ago, we didn’t really expect the 1.4mb 3.5 inch floppy to evolve into flash drives 10x smaller with storage capacity as big as 32gb. The interesting thing about technology is; it’s just going to get more and more high-end but the size, is just going to get smaller and slimmer.
These concept gadgets you see before you today, have extremely high chance of getting into production anywhere in the future. For example, Microsoft’s Surface Computing Technology certainly tells us they are for real. Here’s some really cool concept gadgets, just concepts for now but we really hope it’ll be implemented, that inspires. If we happened to missed something impressive, please let us know in comment. Full list after jump.
Mygazines is a community website that allows its users to upload and share magazines online so you can read for free without paying. The site has a wide range of free online magazines to offers, ranging from computer magazines like MacWorld, Electronic Gaming to news and business magazines like Forbes, Discover, Wired and a lot more!
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Whether you kick off a web interface design by sketching on papers or blank Photoshop canvas, it’s good to get some guides and inspirations. Here we’ve compiled some of the nicest Photoshop tutorial that guides you, step by step, building up a web interface all the way from scratch.
While you are at it, here’s more design related content we’ve written previously that might interest you
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Do you know you can create panorama with Adobe Photoshop? We are not talking about the manual way but rather automatic. With the help of Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, creating a panoramic version of your photo can be done within seconds, all you need to do is select your photos to be stitch and let Photoshop do the rest. Fire up Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, full tutorial after jump.
You remembered famfamfam and their fantastic icons, now here’s more. Folks at pinvoke has something similar to offer. Check out the 2 sets of icons, respectively Fugue Icons and Diagona Icons. These icons are released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. You are able to download them for free and use for any personal or commercial projects. However, a fix amount is attached if you decided to remove any of the attribution.
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