Subtracting one shape from another with Adobe Illustrator is a matter of clicking a button: the “subtract from shape area” button in the pathfinder palette. This simple button holds vast power, as do all the buttons in the pathfinder tool. To make our subtraction, we’d follow these simple steps: Draw 1st shape I’ve drawn a [...]
Digging in to HTML5 Boilerplate
January 3, 2012 – 12:05 am
“The way that a lot of the HTML5 spec worked was just to standardize what browsers already did.” – Paul Irish, Creator of HTML5 Boilerplate In this post, we’ll dig in to HTML5 Boilerplate and explore some of the awesome things it has to offer. If you’ve got about an hour to kill, then check [...]
Non-Destructive editing with Photoshop Adjustment Layers
December 25, 2011 – 12:53 pm
Photoshop adjustment layers are much like any other Photoshop layer. They sit somewhere above or below the other layers in your layer stack and can be used with effects, masks, and filters. An adjustment layer will affect all layers below it. So, for example, if we applied an orange solid color adjustment layer to our [...]
Photoshop Type Time Savers
December 20, 2011 – 1:10 pm
Check out this video for some quick, simple, but possibly significant time-saving techniques to use with text in Photoshop. In this video, we’ll discover how to: Quickly convert between point type and paragraph type change fonts on multiple layers at the same time Quite useful! Video tutorial by Peyton Crump.
Jump into HTML5 with HTML5 Boilerplate
December 16, 2011 – 10:28 pm
Why is HTML5 Boilerplate awesome? Cross-browser compatible (IE6, yeah they got that.) HTML5 ready. Use the new tags with certainty. Optimal caching and compression rules for grade-A performance Best practice site configuration defaults Mobile browser optimizations Progressive enhancement graceful degradation … yeah yeah they got that IE specific classes for maximum cross-browser control Handy .no-js [...]