Snapshot your way through your next photoshop design

Ctrl Z, Ctrl Z, Ctrl Z… dang I ran out of history states! Every UI designer knows this feeling. You explore a new direction only to realize that you have strayed way off course. Edit… More

Tips for Masking Complex Layers in Photoshop

Masking is a super important feature of photoshop. I use masking for photos, screen shots, navigation, shadows and tons of other things. In simplest terms, a mask is a shape or selection that is used… More

Speed Up Your Design With Shortcuts

I remember being in my first Photoshop class and learning about shortcuts to increase our productivity.  Everyone always says they’re faster, but I thought I’d do a rough experiment to see how much faster.  I… More

Create a detailed Photoshop button with just 2 layers

Over the years, after countless hours using Photoshop I have become much faster and more efficient when designing. In web design, Photoshop files get pretty massive and usually consist of hundreds of layers. Organizing, grouping… More

Design Tutorials: Practice makes perfect

I did a lot of photoshop(& illustrator) tutorials back in the day(a year or 2 ago) but once I had mastered the “glassy ball” and “grunge-look” I kinda stopped doing them. I recently started doing… More