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Web design trend, 3D Ribbon
You may have seen them appearing here and there. I couldn’t find any better name and no one seems to talk about this so I’ve made my own denomination: the 3D Ribbon.
Sometimes used has title background or as full container background they’ve appeared over the last few month, maybe late last year. Some big sites [...]
Apple’ style nav buttons in photoshop
Today it’s a little Photoshop tut to break the wordpress routine :p. A client recently asked me to create a navigation bar that looks like the Apple.com. The process is fairly easy and goes as follow:
Open a new document in Photoshop with the size of your menu. For this example I start from a 500×40 [...]
Snap to pixel option in Photoshop
When you ask people what are their favorite software for designing web site’s graphics you usually get the pro Photoshop vs the pro Illustrator/Fireworks. Designers in the second category will argue that Photoshop doesn’t give the pixel perfect output you get with a Illustrator on Firework, because they are vector based.
Filmstrip Photoshop custom shape
Here is a filmstrip Photoshop shape I’ve used a few times in various work. It is free to download and use anywhere you want so feel free.
Link to the filmstrip Photoshop shape. Download it then move it to Your_Photoshop_directory/presets/custom shapes. Then in Photoshop select the custom shape tool and load it via the shape selection [...]
Phostoshop desgin guide for quick mockup
The design process of a website could be resumed as follow:
Hand draft
Software mockup
You need of course all the preliminary work on the brand, sector, etc… That’s not the subject here. So when you reach the software mockup state you will open you favorite tool and start reproducing what you’ve got on you sketchbook.
Standards vs Diversity
My last post about another BBC’s website copy and upyourego blog post about the same subject made me think about design standards that came from authority site like the BBC.
I’ve always been a partisan of the diversity in web design because if we were adopting the same design everywhere that would make the web uninteresting [...]
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