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Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Volume 2 ...

Imprint Published in April 2011 Smashing Media GmbH, Freiburg, Germany Cover Design: Ricardo Gimenes Editing: Thomas Burkert Pro ...

Table of Contents Preface Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles Useful Photoshop Tips And Trick ...

Preface When it comes to designing in Photoshop, there is a myriad of ways one could use to achieve a certain result. Designers ...

Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles Marc Edwards Often, it’s the little details that turn a g ...

1. Bitmap Layer With Noise Probably the most obvious method for adding texture to a shape is to create a normal bitmap layer, fi ...

Layers:^2 Scales: No, texture will have to be recreated if the document is scaled Works with Color and Gradient layer styles: Y ...

Works with any texture: No 3. Smart Object with Filter Create a Solid Color layer, convert it to a Smart Object, select Filter ...

4. Pattern Overlay Layer Style Start by creating a noise or repeating pattern in a new document, then choose Edit → Define Patte ...

Which Method Is Best? Although a little cumbersome, creating a Gradient Fill layer, adding a Pattern layer style, then creating ...

1. Rounded Rectangle Vector Tool Photoshop’s Rounded Rectangle vector tool appears like the ideal candidate for the task, until ...

The result is perfect roundrects, every time. The only downside is that the corner radius can’t be altered during or after drawi ...

It’s seven steps in total and is prone to being inaccurate; plus, the radius of the corners can’t be changed on the fly. Applyin ...

3. Circles The circles method is very accurate and easily reproducible, but has a whopping 13 steps. That’s a lot of clicking fo ...

10.Make a rectangular selection that covers the entire vertical span of the roundrect but that starts and ends halfway through t ...

Add a stroke as a layer style that is as thick as the corner radius you would like If you’d like to flatten the object to remo ...

Which Method Is Best? In most cases, using the Rounded Rectangle tool with “Snap to Pixel” turned on will give great results and ...

All tests were completed using Photoshop CS4 and CS5 on a Mac. Behavior for both versions was consistent. ...

Gradients Gradients are a great way to add life-like lighting and shading to surfaces. When built with gradient layers and layer ...

Radial Gradients Radial gradients start from the center (or any chosen point) and grow outward in a circular pattern. They’re ha ...