Hello friends! I don’t think we need an intro to the legendary tool, which has celebrated its 20th birthday last month, since its release, in 1990. Let it be designing those inviting little ad banners, to the finest of hand-crafted webapp UIs, PHOTOSHOP have a special place in a web-designer’s heart!
With the bustle of web-designers and photoshopers around the world, every day I feel left behind, seeing the awesomeness in the works of millions of talents out there who manage to outplay me, and as a result, help me rekindle my efforts to learn, every single moment.
With the abundance of online resources, tutorials, blogs and articles which keep on excavating the trade of photoshoping, anybody with passion and readiness to work hard can become a pro over time. But what does it take to transition from just a pro, to ‘the best’? Why are there some designers who are always the best? What makes them different from the others, when the knowledge available to absorb is equal for everybody? What makes them stand apart?
In the last 6+ years of my career in web designing, I have found this as a unique trait in designers, who love to be organized and productive. Let us walk through a sample PSD and see how its composition can be super-organized, by smartly modularizing the elements and following an object-oriented approach.
With the bustle of web-designers and photoshopers around the world, every day I feel left behind, seeing the awesomeness in the works of millions of talents out there who manage to outplay me, and as a result, help me rekindle my efforts to learn, every single moment.
With the abundance of online resources, tutorials, blogs and articles which keep on excavating the trade of photoshoping, anybody with passion and readiness to work hard can become a pro over time. But what does it take to transition from just a pro, to ‘the best’? Why are there some designers who are always the best? What makes them different from the others, when the knowledge available to absorb is equal for everybody? What makes them stand apart?
Here is a quick peep into some etiquettes of a designer in terms of his/her Photoshop workflow, which groups them in a league of their own!
- Object Oriented Photoshoping
- Naming conventions for layers and sets
- Ability to replicate and practice
- Usage of paths and pen tool
- Effective usage of adjustment layers and styles
- Guides, Grids and notes
- Workspace Management
- Shortcuts, shortcuts and shortcuts
- Last but not the least … respect and respond your critiques!
1. Object Oriented Photoshoping
Photoshoping can be fun … and pain at the same time! Especially when you are working on complex visual compositions and layouts, with a lot of iterations involved. Designing a high-fidelity visual composition for a website or a web application, can be a nightmare, especially if you are in a team of creatives and when client meetings are too often, which means you will be going through a sea of changes and iterations far too often. The key here is organizing. Organizing your layers /sets and structuring your source file is really important, if you want to be in charge of your PSD.In the last 6+ years of my career in web designing, I have found this as a unique trait in designers, who love to be organized and productive. Let us walk through a sample PSD and see how its composition can be super-organized, by smartly modularizing the elements and following an object-oriented approach.
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