Flat design is the designer’s answer to the usability necessity in the responsive era. With all these new devices and the high resolution spread, no doubts that we must design things that well behave regardless of the “circumstances”. At this point it was difficult - though not impossible - designing highly detailed elements and making them well behave on all devices. It became clearer every day that the main purpose of a user interface is showing the user the content and infor

Grab the rounded rectangle tool, then click on the canvas to open the “create new rectangle” options window. Here enter 640 px as width, 100 px for the height, and set a radius of 10 px. Press OK to create the shape. To place it in the exact center of the canvas, press cmd+A (ctrl+A on Windows) to select the entire canvas, then select the move tool (V) and use the align tools in the tool options bar. No worries if the color of your shape is different from mine (it depends by your for

Layer Masks come in handy when you want to confine a specific element. Lets say that you want to apply a texture/pattern to a shape A. The space occupied by that shape represents your “limit”. You can select the pixels occupied by an element by holding down cmd (ctrl on Windows) and clicking on the layer - inside the layer windows. In a simpler way: in the layer windows, cmd + click on the layer whose pixel you want to select. Then you select the texture to be confined and press the

Layer Masks come in handy when you want to confine a specific element. Lets say that you want to apply a texture/pattern to a shape A. The space occupied by that shape represents your “limit”. You can select the pixels occupied by an element by holding down cmd (ctrl on Windows) and clicking on the layer - inside the layer windows. In a simpler way: in the layer windows, cmd + click on the layer whose pixel you want to select. Then you select the texture to be confined and press the

PsDefaults is a complete replacement set of default graphics (also known as presets) for Adobe Photoshop. Forget living with that blue bubbly pattern or the antiquated default shapes forever: this new set of presets is entirely hand-crafted, modern, beautiful, and ready to use.

For example a lot of designers and developers still rely very heavily on images for web elements, when they code their websites. This may be because it seems quick and easy, or it’s perhaps just the way that we are all used to doing things, afterall using images was once the only way to get gradients, shadows, rounded corners and other simple effects on the web.

If you’ve recently upgraded or purchased Adobe CS6 and are a little bit disappointed with the new icons, then this should hopefully be of interest to you. After searching and waiting patiently some icons to surface that were a little more to my taste. I finally decided to take it upon myself, and just open up Photoshop and start designing my own. So here are the results! You are free to download them and use as you please.

It’s safe to say from the off that Sketch 2 is without a doubt, an excellent app at a very reasonable price. And if you’re a casual designer, who can’t quite justify splashing out on Adobe’s offerings, then yes Sketch is for you, go buy it! But in this article I want to assess how well it meets the needs of professional designers, and how well it stands up against the two most popular tools used at the moment, Photoshop and Fireworks.

Whether we’re ready or not, the future of the web is going to be in High Definition. However, by following a few simple techniques, you can future-proof your web designs today.

Whether we’re ready or not, the future of the web is going to be in High Definition. However, by following a few simple techniques, you can future-proof your web designs today.

Whether we’re ready or not, the future of the web is going to be in High Definition. However, by following a few simple techniques, you can future-proof your web designs today.

Whether we’re ready or not, the future of the web is going to be in High Definition. However, by following a few simple techniques, you can future-proof your web designs today.

Whether we’re ready or not, the future of the web is going to be in High Definition. However, by following a few simple techniques, you can future-proof your web designs today.

Whether we’re ready or not, the future of the web is going to be in High Definition. However, by following a few simple techniques, you can future-proof your web designs today.

Following that we launched the multi-plan system we have now with download credits and a set number of downloads you could have each month. This has worked fairly well with one exception: members who didn’t use all of their downloads in one month (which were many) lost those downloads and couldn’t use them again next month. In effect, members were penalized for not using all of their downloads, even if they didn’t need them that month. That’s not what we want to happen&he