Yesterday, TechCrunch released an article titled, “Make Your #NewTwitter Background Pretty With Themeleon.” Themeleon is a tool that allows Twitter users to create customized backgrounds and profile pages, and has been used by 2 million people in the past year. It’s a nice tool, and allows users to create some [...]

Part 2 of The Basics of the Marquee Tool. This post highlights more advanced features, but even as a beginner it can be helpful to look at the full potential of certain tools. I can’t tell you how often I take some of these things for granted in my day to day work with Photoshop and would recommend reading and trying out all of the various tips within this post.

If you haven’t done so, you should read over my previous posts on the basics of Photoshop and the move tool. Most of the content that you will work with in Photoshop is raster based (bitmapped images). Photoshop’s pixel-based tool, the Marquee Tool, is the number one tool used to [...]

I always use shape layers while designing in photoshop. Not only do they allow me to draw using scalable vectors, but it also makes it super easy to resize and transform. However, if you are not careful while designing, sub-pixel antialiasing can occur and your rounded-corner box (that you just [...]

If you’ve ever used Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that your Twitter feed shows up smack dab in the center of your browser. As you resize your browser window, Twitter’s content adjusts to the changing size while the background remains fixed in place. Anyone involved with marketing through Twitter understands why this structure poses a challenge. When [...]