Workflow


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Jul 10

Google web fonts with realtime preview

You can’t make it any easier than that. Google has launched a tool for its font directory that lets you preview fonts in real time. Besides the usual stuff like changing fonts’ face and size, you can manipulate word, letter and line spacings or even add a drop shadow. Once finished designing, the only thing left to do is to copy and paste a few lines of dynamically generated code to your style sheet file!


22
Jul 10

Pixel perfect graphics in Illustrator CS5

This new “Align to pixel grid” feature of Illustrator CS5 really makes a difference for authors publishing to digital environments.


21
Jul 10

A few cool features of Photoshop CS5

Here’s a video that showcases some really awesome and useful features of the new Photoshop CS5. The new content aware fill paired with refine edge tool turns routine photo editing tasks into child’s play. Other useful features include better ISO noise reduction, HDR image compositing and a fancy puppet warp tool.


29
Jun 10

Chase Jarvis: Complete Workflow for Photo and Video

A really nice overview from a director and photographer Chase Jarvis about design workflow and data backup. As a bonus, check out the oh-so-sweet setup he has.