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Elliot Jackson
Designer at Realmac Software. Joined over 9 years ago via an invitation from Marc E. Elliot has invited Thibault Lemaitre
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- 17 comments
- 61 upvotes
- How to Copy an RGB Value in Photoshop (elliotekj.com)
- Call to Idea: Like Pttrns but for Websites (calltoidea.com)
- WWDC Session Videos Available for Everyone (elliotekj.com)
- How to Export SVGs from Photoshop (blog.elliotekj.com)
- Site Design: Planet Pasta by The New York Times (nytimes.com)
- How Gmail Onboards New Users (useronboard.com)
- GuideGuide 3 beta (guideguide.me)
- Behance app redesigned for iOS 7 (c.elliotekj.com)
- New Treehouse Course: Mobile App Design for iOS (teamtreehouse.com)
- CloudApp Website Redesign (getcloudapp.com)
Posted to Ditto: Use variables in Photoshop, in reply to Dirk HCM van Boxtel , Jul 16, 2015 Posted to Ditto: Use variables in Photoshop, in reply to Eduardo Nunes , Jul 16, 2015 Thanks for your support Eduardo! You’re right, I’ll be adding one in the next update.
Posted to My iOS to Mac screenshot workflow, in reply to matt michelson , Jul 07, 2015 Because that’s a lot more faff than just taking taking screenshots on the device IMO. It would also mean that’d I’d have to have a mac with me whenever I play with a new app which is hardly ever the case.
Posted to My iOS to Mac screenshot workflow, in reply to Suganth S , Jul 07, 2015 I’ve never found AirDrop to be particularly reliable plus the two factors that I like about this are that I can upload them as soon as I take them, where ever that happens to be and that they get imported into my library automatically, which is where they always end up anyway.
It may not be the best solution for everyone, but it’s the best one for me at the moment. :)
Posted to My portfolio is finally live. , Sep 05, 2014 Looks good! Couple of bits of feedback:
1) Your project navigation buttons:
Before: http://cl.ly/XOqJ
text-align: center;After: http://cl.ly/XOaf
2) The rendering of your animated text intro is pretty poor in Safari (7.0.6): http://cl.ly/XOxU
Posted to Dropbox - New Prices and Space (9.99 / 1 TB), in reply to Sylvain Lafitte , Aug 28, 2014 In Illustrator, Effect > Distort & Transform > Roughen. You'll get pretty close with that.
Posted to Ask DN: Designers, what is your sketch book of choice? , in reply to Chris Griffith , Jul 26, 2014 Yeah, the Behance books are great. I use the Dot Grid Journal.
Posted to Ask DN: What headphones do you use?, Jul 24, 2014 Posted to ASK DN: What Books Are You Reading?, Jun 30, 2014 I've just finished A Song of Ice and Fire and Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War.
About to start The Design of Everyday Things and have just started A Clash of Kings.
Both ”A Song of Ice and Fire” and “Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War” are great reads, the latter—whilst fascinating—is a little heavy going though. Took me a while to get through it.
Also, I'm unable to read one book at a time.
Posted to Why doesn't Apple create a custom font for its OS UIs?, Jun 04, 2014 OS X Yosemite doesn't actually use the standard Helvetica Neue, they've tweaked it for use in the UI. It's defined in the OS as:
sysFont: NSFont = { font = HelveticaNeueDeskInterface-Regular, pointSize = 13.00 }Helvetica Neue is incredible generic (and a crap UI font).
For those interested, I wrote briefly about this yesterday.
- Deepdreamer for Mac by Realmac (realmacsoftware.com)
- Ditto: Use variables in Photoshop (casualnotebook.com)
- My iOS to Mac screenshot workflow (casualnotebook.com)
- DN link targets.
- How to Photoshop (i.imgur.com)
- Dropbox Guide (dropbox.com)
- Faith in eventually—Jason Fried of Basecamp (signalvnoise.com)
- Optimising for the 0.33% (istartedsomething.com)
- My portfolio is finally live. (andersdrage.com)
- Designer's Guide to DPI (sebastien-gabriel.com)
Going to have to have a think about the best way to implement this—an excellent suggestion!