smashing-ebook-8

The Clone Source palette. ...

Cloning Sources In the first section in the Clone Source palette, you can define multiple areas of an image as a source from whi ...

Notice that the file name appears just under the clone source buttons. This is because you can actually select a clone source ou ...

You can see these transformation effects in action in the example above. The two bails of hay are actually one and the same, but ...

An overlay of the source is displayed within the brush. Note that if you choose to turn on the overlay but turn off “Clipped,” t ...

An overlay of the source is displayed within the brush. Working this way is actually quite difficult because the source signific ...

has a ton of features and potential applications, and it really merits its own entire article, so this will be just a brief intr ...

like this old barn, won’t have perfect angles. In this case, you’ll have to create a second plane, entirely distinct from the or ...

Vanishing Point result. As you can see, Photoshop interpreted the planes fairly well. Some fine- tuning and clean-up are definit ...

Take Your Time As you undertake a cloning project, the quality of the result is directly proportional to the amount of time you ...

Watch for Obvious Duplication Sloppy cloning results in noticeable patterns. If you’re not careful, duplicated pixels can become ...

Where did her leg go!? If you’re not careful, you could eliminate enough vital body parts to make the image humorous. Your goal ...

Conclusion Cloning in Photoshop is a difficult task that requires significant time, studious attention to detail and an in-depth ...

Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow Marc Edwards The iPhone 4 features a vastly superior display reso ...

talk about highly custom, graphic-driven apps that need a fair amount of work to take full advantage of the Retina display. Whil ...

Just-in-time Resolution Independence Another approach to handling widely different resolutions and pixel densities is to draw ev ...

Neven emphasizes in his article that: “...it is simply not possible to create excellent, detailed icons which can be arbitrarily ...

Ahead-of-time Resolution Independence The best quality results — and the method Apple chose for the iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4 trans ...

Currently, there are three iOS resolutions: -^320 × 480 (iPhone/iPod touch) -^640 × 960 (iPhone 4 and iPod with Retina display) ...

layers with vector masks ( just make sure you have “snap to pixel” turned on, where possible). While a little awkward at times, ...