10 Ways Photoshop Actions Can Improve Your Workflow Photoshop actions are an extremely easy way to automate all of the mundane daily tasks that have made their way into your design workflow. Whether you’re in web or print design, odds are there are a few repetitive tasks that you could let Photoshop handle for you. Perhaps the biggest hurdle to automating your workflow is simply coming up with ideas for where Photoshop actions could help you out. Today we’ll help you solve that problem by going over 10 ways Photoshop actions can improve your workflow. Wielding Actions as a Designer Just about everyone that uses Photoshop knows about actions. The thing is, they’re largely underutilized in the design world. I think one of the biggest hurdles is simply coming up with ideas for how to use actions effectively. To help you out, I’ve compiled ten ways that I use custom actions in my workflow. How Do Actions Work? For those new to actions, I’ll give you a quick primer. Remember that Photoshop actions record every little thing you do. 1. 2. 3. 4.
960 Grid System 613 | The official site for James Anderson’s benefit year 2012. GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop Advertisement This article is the fourth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts. Today we are happy to present Cameron McEfee’s Photoshop extension GuideGuide which provides a tool to create pixel accurate columns, rows, midpoints and baselines. Take a moment and think about creating a multi-column grid in a Photoshop comp. (siteWidth - (gutterWidth × (numberOfColumns - 1) ) ÷ numberOfColumns = columnWidth I was sitting at my desk one day doing this exact equation when I thought, “Man, this looks just like code. Enter: GuideGuide I created GuideGuide for the sole purpose of making one of the most time consuming parts of Photoshop based design as easy as possible. Columns and Rows Midpoints (il)
Designing Screens Using Cores and Paths Imagine you’re on one side of a grass lawn and you want to reach the bus stop on the opposite side. Do you walk on the sidewalk around the edges or cross in the middle? Assuming the grass is dry and it’s not prohibited, you’d probably take the shortest path and walk across the lawn to the bus stop. If others have done so before, you may see a beaten path that you could follow. Such unplanned paths connect the shortest distance between two points, and we can find them everywhere in our surroundings. Architect Christopher Alexander recognizes desire lines in his renowned book, A Pattern Language (1976)[2]. To lay out paths, first place goals at natural points of interest. In principle, Alexander’s approach is to begin with the goals—the things people ultimately want—and then link them together in the most useful way. Typically in web design, the opposite approach is the rule: designers begin with the homepage. Inspired by “desire lines”, we can reverse this tendency in Web design. 1. 2.
Filters and Blending Modes | Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS6 Community Translation Your transcript request has been submitted. Adobe TV does its best to accommodate transcript requests. It can take a few weeks for the transcript to become available in the Community Translation Project, so keep checking back. Join the Community Translation Project Thanks for your interest in translating this episode! Please Confirm Your Interest Thanks for your interest in adding translations to this episode! An error occurred while processing your request. Another translator has already started to translate this episode. Thanks for Participating! This episode has been assigned to you and you can expect an e-mail shortly containing all the information you need to get started. About This Episode Filters can combine with blending modes; this movie shows you how to use this feature to non-destructively create different effects and stylized, artistic looks, pushing your filters a lot further. Presented By
Conception Web : utiliser la grille - JDN Développeurs Une grille est très prosaïquement une série de lignes horizontales et verticales, qui partage la page de manière symétrique ou harmonieuse. En basant sa conception Web sur l'idée de grille, on donne ainsi de l'importance à certaines zones (ligne, colonne ou jonction des deux), importance que l'utilisateur mémorise inconsciemment, et qu'il peut ainsi plaquer naturellement sur les autres pages du site. La grille trace des lignes au travers de la page. Celles-ci peuvent être visibles, ou subtilement suivies en s'intégrant à des éléments de conception visibles. Le concepteur peut, grâce à ces lignes imaginaires, créer une idée de continuité visuelle entre deux éléments dissociés. Qu'elle soit visible ou non, la grille décide de l'harmonie d'une page. Cette communication visuelle de l'harmonie peut reposer sur les nombreuses théories élaborées au fil du temps. Le tout reste cependant de trouver le bon nombre de lignes séparatrices pour une page.
Color Combinations | Color Schemes | Color Palettes Hacker le visuel | Édition Nº23 La vision que je vais présenter au cours de cet article est le fruit de dix ans d’expérience professionnelle dans le webdesign, d’une mûre réflexion sur mon métier et d’une assez bonne connaissance de ma personne. Ils m’ont appris quel devait être mon rôle au sein d’une équipe, en tant que professionnelle mais aussi en tant qu’être humain. C’est pourquoi il faut garder à l’esprit que cette approche est très personnelle. Ainsi, si je tiens à la partager avec le lectorat du Train ce n’est pas par narcissisme mais pour souffler à d’autres professionnels de tous milieux, et tout particulièrement ceux issus du design, l’envie de repenser leur métier et de sortir des sentiers battus. Si je devais qualifier mon activité professionnelle actuelle, je pense qu’il me faudrait dire que je suis “directrice artistique spécialisée dans le web”. Avant d’aller plus loin, je tiens à expliquer le choix du mot “hacker” à défaut de tout autre plus français et moins connoté. Le non-art et sa manière
Perspective Correction In Photoshop - Repairing Keystoning Written by Steve Patterson. Have you ever tried taking a photo of a building only to have the building look like it’s leaning backwards? That’s a perspective problem known as keystoning, and it’s caused by the building and the camera lens being on two different angles. Usually, unless you’re fond of climbing trees or you have a friend at the fire department, standing on the ground and tilting the camera back a bit is the only way to get the top of a tall building into the photo, and since the camera is tilted away from the building when you snap the image, with the top of the lens being further away from it than the bottom of the lens, the building ends up looking like its leaning backwards. This problem actually exists any time you need to tilt the camera back to get something tall into the photo but it’s most noticeable with buildings due to their straight parallel sides. Related Tutorial: The Perspective Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6 Here’s the photo I’ll be using. The final result.
Les grilles WEB : mythe ou réalité ? | Blog d'un ergonome WEB S’il est un débat qui déchaîne les passions entre ergonomes et webdesigners c’est bien celui de l’utilisation ou non des grilles… Il a ses partisans, parfois intégristes, et ses détracteurs, souvent narquois (dubitatifs, largués, etc.). Mais avant tout, qu’est-ce qu’une grille ? Il s’agit d’une structure ou combinaison de lignes servant à faciliter le positionnement des éléments d’une création peux-on lire sur la couverture du livre dédié au sujet de chez Pyramyd Edition. En d’autres termes, il s’agit de guides définissant les zones d’expressions d’un espace et aidant à sa structuration, à son organisation, à son homogénéisation. Je m’explique. J’ai moi-même été dur à convaincre. Deux exemples tirés du livre : - sens de lecture d’une page : les zones actives et passives d’une création sont déterminer pour le placement des éléments mais également par le jeu de contraste et de taille. Ce livre est toutefois nettement moins pertinent pour les sites WEB. Que retenir des grilles ?
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