10 Second Tip – Adding Guides In Photoshop

Posted in Design, Tips by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: October 12, 2012)

Adding guides to your Photoshop document are a great way of making sure everything’s aligned nicely.

Guides can be dragged from the Rulers on the edge of your document, or you can also use the “View > New Guide…” menu option.

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10 Second Tip – Configure Your Document Tabs In CS4

Posted in Design, Tips by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: October 12, 2012)

One of the first changes you’ll probably notice when upgrading to Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), is the use of tabs to display your windows. Previously, your windows “floated” within the CS4 interface. Now, they dock neatly up against the Options panel.

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Designers Predict Design Trends for 2010

Posted in Design by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: November 12, 2011)

I was recently asked to submit my thoughts on what I think will be trending in the design community in 2010. It may sound far away, but we’re almost halfway through 2009 already.

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Design Tips For Creating HTML Emails

Posted in Development by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: November 12, 2011)

If you think that because you know how to code a web page, an HTML email should be “no trouble”, then think again. There are lots of considerations that you need to take into account to get your HTML email to render correctly across the numerous email and web mail clients.

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Create A Vista Style Tabbed Menu Bar

Posted in Tutorials by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: November 12, 2011)

This is a simple Photoshop tutorial to create a “Vista style” tabbed menu bar that you can use for your website layout, much like I’ve used on my own site.

The above image is one that I cooked up earlier so that you can see the finished layout 🙂

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