What do you do when you have to work on billboard-sized images, but your little computer can’t handle them? Work at smaller dimensions and then upsample at the end! But images can get too blurry when you increase the resolution, so what should you do?
Genuine Fractals to the rescue!
So it seems that the posts on shortcuts for tools and functions have been quite popular! We’ve had many readers contributing their favorite Photoshop key commands in the comments. In case you’re only reading through a feed reader and you haven’t stopped by to comment, I pulled up some of them below.
Remember I shared with you some graphic styles I would like to try some time in my design work? Recently I have been working on a project using a rubber stamp style. The following is the method I used to create the look of a rubber stamp using Photoshop.
If you’re very familiar with Photoshop and the terminology, here’s the short version:
1. Create shapes
2. Rasterize layers
3. Add layer mask
4. Trace around “ink” shapes in mask
5. With mask selected, go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Spatter
Everything in your portfolio says something about you as a designer. But is there more to it than a good portfolio for getting a job or landing a new client?
Rule Number 1
Never submit something to a client you wouldn’t put in your portfolio. The first reason to do this is that the client will always, always select that horrible design over all the other excellent ones you present. And then you’re stuck producing the crummy one that you hated and you thought the client would never choose. Serves you right!
Seeing as the last post on Essential Photoshop Shortcuts was pretty popular, I thought I’d share a few more, this time for the functions I use most often and find most valuable to have as shortcuts.
The Biggies
Ctrl+S is probably THE most important! It’s the command for Save and if you’ve been in the graphics industry any amount […]
It’s 3:00 AM. You’re finishing up a file for your client that is due in a few hours (really shouldn’t have put it off to watch that Heroes marathon!). You think it’s a good idea to do one last check to make sure you have all the details right. You look down the list…
Yup, got the […]
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