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Creating and Replacing Custom Shapes in Photoshop 15 May 2013 | 09:05 am
Custom shapes are a great way to quickly access vector versions of your icon and shape libraries. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to access the default custom shapes in Photoshop and replace them ...
Scalable Buttons in Illustrator Using Graphic Styles 31 Oct 2012 | 05:46 pm
With a little work and some Illustrator Kung Fu, you can create a library of buttons that are quickly added to any document. I’ll show you how to stack appearance attributes on a single shape to creat...
Ben Cline 24 Sep 2012 | 06:48 pm
Let’s start off getting to know you. Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get your start in design? Hey, my name is Ben. I'm an interactive designer and a co-founder of Rally Interactive,...
Complicated Shapes with Precision in Illustrator 6 Sep 2012 | 01:35 am
Learn to creatively use the transform tool and pathfinder in conjunction with other measurement techniques to harness the full power of Illustrator for creating precise shapes. Also shown is mapping c...
Working with Master Objects in Omnigraffle 14 Aug 2012 | 06:10 pm
When creating wires in Omnigraffle, nothing is more time consuming than having to go into each canvas and manually edit repeating instances or interactions. This demo will reveal some great little sho...
Smart Objects for PSD Slicing 5 Jul 2012 | 03:41 am
Learn how to use Photoshop’s smart objects feature to export graphics for the web while saving time and retaining maximum layer editability.
Optimizing Graphics with CSS Masks 8 May 2012 | 10:52 am
It’s difficult to optimize your high resolution images for the web. It’s even more difficult when those images need to be transparent. In this video I show how CSS masks can help make this process eas...
States and Layer Comps 11 Apr 2012 | 09:52 pm
Have you ever had a difficult time finding which layers need to be visible for which layout? How do you know which layers work together? Huzzah! There’s a simple solution! Andy shows how you can use P...
Batch Processing FTW 29 Mar 2012 | 11:18 am
After spending 2-3 hours of labor exporting icons one at a time in illustrator, my neck and back were killing me. So after a good nights rest and some coffee, I set out to find a better way of doing t...
Optimizing Textured Artwork for PNG Export 22 Feb 2012 | 01:39 am
Saving images out in PNG format is nothing new for web designers, but when working with textured artwork it’s often tempting to simply save everything out as a PNG-24. While the output looks great, fi...
