What does Photoshop’s Layer Comps feature do and why you may need it…
Layer comps will store different layer visibility, position and appearance (layer styles):
Here’s an example (with layered PSD file below)…
Delicious Library 2: Interface Design (Post 3 of 3)
Designs | Jun 21, 2008Delicious Library 2 Web Publishing
The goal of web publishing is to keep it as simple as possible; everything in one window sheet and avoid using tabs or any other design that would hide steps from users. Here’s a screencast of Web Publishing interface in motion (flash video, no audio):
Item Selection
Comparison of Old, Prototype and Final item selection appearance. While we like spotlight with case highlight one the most, it ultimately didn’t work out as well as we hope due to different item sizes and non resolution independent. It’s not easy to replicate the spotlight effect purely in code so we went with something more lightweight and flexible for every types of item. It works a lot better when in use.
Item Info Panel
Some of you may have seen a different UI for info pane from several websites who provided early look at Delicious Library 2 such as Theocacao, this interface didn’t make it to final build for various reasons. It was inspired by Leopard’s iCal but I believe our implementation are much better. It wasn’t ready for release though and might will come in the future.
You can download a trial version of Delicious Library 2 from www.delicious-monster.com.
- Delicious Library 2: Icon & Graphic Design (1 of 3)
- Delicious Library 2: Web Template Design (2 of 3)
- Delicious Library 2: Interface Design (3 of 3)
Above image color will not be accurate (again) if you view it via other web browsers without color management support but you get the idea.
This should be a must for any photographers or frequent visitor to photo sites such as flickr.
Enable Color Management in FF3's about:config page
One little (Mac only?) bug: it also color manage the entire window color, rendering all elements (titlebar, buttons, etc.) slightly darker. D'oh!
Doing manipulations like this in record time.
Really neat new digital paint tool technology from Carnegie Mellon University. Think of this of as a mix of Photoshop's healing brush, clone stamp tool, gradient map and regular brush. With this technology, you could use edge brush to make your middle finger in your emo picture a little longer (curvy even!) to emphasize on your non-existent point. I suspect they're using the same magic dust that Blue Fairy casted on Pinocchio's nose.
Demo video
More info at their webpage.
[via John Nack on Adobe]
Delicious Library 2: Web Template Design (Post 2 of 3)
Designs | May 30, 2008I usually don’t do any kinds of custom templates since they’re very limiting on my creativity (”create something that everyone would like” aka standard plain version.) However, with the unlimited freedom given for Delicious Library 2 templates, I’m excited to do something that visually match the flashiness of DL2.
Template 1
Template 2
iPhone version
When browsing the library pages on iPhone, it will switch to lite version.
There’s also a print template. You can modify existing templates to your liking.
One more post coming soon. You can download a trial version of Delicious Library 2 from www.delicious-monster.com.
- Delicious Library 2: Icon & Graphic Design (1 of 3)
- Delicious Library 2: Web Template Design (2 of 3)
- Delicious Library 2: Interface Design (3 of 3)
I’ve been working with Delicious Monster since late 2006 for various things and this first post is a brief preview of several icons & graphics I’ve done for Delicious Library 2 which came out today.
High-res icons for Shelves
DL2 folding brochure design for TED Conference:
Front View | Back View | Folded
More to come soon. You can download a trial version of Delicious Library 2 from www.delicious-monster.com.
- Delicious Library 2: Icon & Graphic Design (1 of 3)
- Delicious Library 2: Web Template Design (2 of 3)
- Delicious Library 2: Interface Design (3 of 3)
Black Leather Apple Desktop Background
Desktop Background | May 18, 2008
I usually dislike black or extreme dark colored background but somehow OS X Leopard and its starry theme converted me. Leather background with punch holes and sparky metal Apple logo. Plain version without Apple logo is also available for both single and dual displays.
Leather BG with Apple Logo - 1920×1200
Plain Leather BG - 1920×1200
Just transferred this weblog from my shitty host provider (powweb.com) to mediatemple (referral link) and the sky is now crispy blue and ducks wearing rollerskate to cross the street.
Shawn Blanc's post about mediatemple sold me. I used an easier way of importing large MySQL dump file (wordpress and mint database) by using this php script MySQLDumper
How's the site speed to you guys now? Everything should be faster including file downloads, your eye-reading speed, etc. RSS should also feed to your favorite rss reader by about 0.02 ms faster.
Adobe CS3 Hi-Res Icon Set
Icon Set | Apr 28, 2008
All app & document icons now have 512×512 resource for Mac OS X Leopard. Some of them are updated to look cleaner and more icons are added for other Adobe apps. Folder icons are also included.
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File Size: 65 MB
CS3 Icon Set Replacement
Backup download link at .Mac: Adobe CS3 Hi-Res Icons
If you prefer a 17 MB .7z compressed file instead of 65 MB .zip, you can download a plain version (aka no custom icon applied to .icns files) and folder icons removed: download here
With the additional of sidenotes like this one, it should allow me to post a teeny bit more frequent since writing even one sentence is the biggest headache for me. The sad fact is I usually waste hours on post with few sentences but only brief time on graphics. I'm jealous at people who can write with ease without worrying about sounding like a 5th grade idiot with basic grammar and limited vocabularies.
