Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Often, it’s the little details that turn a good layout into a great design; details such as subtle textures, shading and smooth shapes.
Photoshop contains a vast array of tools for embellishing a design, but choosing the right one isn’t always easy. Being the obsessive-compulsives that we are, we’ve conducted a huge range of experiments to determine the benefits and disadvantages of each technique. Here, then, is an obsessive-compulsive’s guide to some frequently used tools and techniques for Web and UI design in Photoshop. Noise and Textures.
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