Category Archives: downloads

Simple Photoshop Buttons 2

I’m always amazed when I get Photoshop files from colleagues or clients that don’t use layer effects or styles, combined with vector shapes - resolution independence is somewhat achievable, and they make automation simple, simple, simple.
IMHO Everyone should have a solid (and flexible) button-style in their toolbox, here’s one of mine - changing the color […]

15 second Illustrator tip Comments Off

Jump into illustrator go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts
Select Tools from the pull-down menu.
Scroll down to where “Opacity” starts in the tools options (see picture above) - you may notice that yours don’t have key commands by default (mine in the picture do) — so the question you need to ask yourself is what to change […]

Vector HTML Markers 2

Sometime it’s the simple things, I needed to markup a pile of layouts for a team of developers - and my handwriting is highly questionable - simple enough, 5 minutes later and I had a simple Adobe Illustrator symbol library with all the needed HTML tags - a few minutes of drag and drop and […]

Old-Resene Lochmara Comments Off

Now if Frank Sinatra had that nickname it’s doubtful he would have gone very far, believe it or not Resene Lochmara is a fancy-pants name for a very specific shade of blue, one of the millions of meaningless names for that specific shade of blue - my industry (the graphics industry) standardized colors years ago, […]