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Even more complex objects requiring multiple colors get drawn in Illustrator to the exact pixel size, and then pasted into Photo ...

Scaling Up At this point, your document should be able to scale to exactly double the size, without a hitch. ...

I have a Photoshop Action set up that takes a History Snapshot, then scales to 200%. That means, previewing at the Retina displa ...

A word of warning: layer styles can only contain integer values. If you edit a drop shadow offset to be 1 px with the document a ...

The best solution I’ve come up with so far: Build your design at 1× Use Copy Merged to save all the 1× images Duplicate the ent ...

Mastering Photoshop: Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting and Nudging Marc Edwards When creating Web and app interfaces, most ...

In this case, the artwork is 20 × 9 pixels: even-by-odd dimensions. The results for bitmap layers and vector layers are differen ...

problem, be it adding a square bitmap mask to a layer or adding more content to the layer that you’re rotating. You could also d ...

Bitmap and vector masks are affected by this issue as well, so please take care. But the issue affects only rotated layers, eith ...

What Went Wrong? Photoshop’s pasting behavior works in one of two ways. If you’ve made a selection, then the clipboard’s content ...

A Fix Our test artwork is 32 pixels wide by 12 pixels high. Drawing a 32 × 12 marquee selection in Photoshop forces the artwork ...

It may sound complex, but in practice it’s very quick; you’ll only ever have to paste twice to get sharp vector paths from Illus ...

Edit in the other window as normal, zooming in as far as you’d like. You’ll now be able to press Command + to switch back to the ...

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Please note that holding Shift while using the arrow keys to nudge always moves by 10 pixels, no matter how far in you’re zoomed ...

Setting up Photoshop for Web and iPhone Development Marc Edwards Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop wil ...

There is a catch, though. Even though you’re creating the Web or app interface on the same device that the final product will be ...

exclusively with RGB images for Web or on-screen user interfaces. With the default Photoshop settings, #FF0000 will actually dis ...

Disabling Photoshop’s RGB Color Management These instructions are for Photoshop CS5 on Mac and Windows. Setting up CS4 is very s ...

Convert to Profile is quite different. Not only does it assign a color profile to the document, but it tries to keep your image ...