I’ve been trying out CS5 for the past couple weeks and overall seen a lot of things that are nice, but not really worth the cost of the upgrade. The main reason I decided to check it out was because of Photoshop CS4 has a nasty habit of taking all my iMac’s resources and basically [...]

This morning while working on a project in Photoshop CS4 I was trying to move a folder with the keyboard command up and down. This normally will nudge the selected folder in whatever direction I press. However today I got the message: “Could not nudge the selection because the pixels in a fill layer cannot [...]

Illustrator can be a bit tricky sometimes, especially when there are so many ways to accomplish something. According to Adobe, “compound paths act as grouped objects” and they also say, “When you define objects as a compound path, all objects in the compound path take on the paint and style attributes of the backmost object [...]

When I first heard of Dropbox I thought two things: 1. Why would I need it when I have Time Machine 2. It must cost too much. As for Time Machine, I’ve realized (thanks to recent natural disasters) that my house may not be the safest place to keep my important files. As for my [...]

Lately there’s been a lot of buzz about CSS3 and its new features.  Articles are popping up like daisies!  The Web Designer’s wall is showing examples of CSS3 and Design informer tells us we can “Use CSS3 Now” (fantastic agreement with this post, btw).  But I’m most concerned about one thing in CSS3 – rounded [...]

A couple days ago on Twitter I made the statement that what Apple ”would announce [today] could change the face of the design industry.” After seeing the official announcement, I’m more confident than ever of that fact. Apple’s new device has the potential to make even more of an impact on those of us in the [...]

I was so excited today to discover CSS3′s new support for columns. This is something that I really have wanted for a while, but felt it was too difficult and took too much time to otherwise try and implement.