This post was written by Josh on July 12, 2010

A couple years ago my mind was blown when, after spending years working Photoshop, a friend of mine brought a tiny checkbox to my attention: Auto-Select. Auto-Select is pretty self explanatory. When turned on, it allows you select objects on your canvas by clicking directly on them no matter what layer they’re on, similar to using Illustrator. Furthermore, if you simultaneously have View > Show > Layer Edges selected, you will also see bounding boxes around elements, again similar to Illustrator.

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This post was written by Josh on July 6, 2010

Our team has just begun using a neat, but powerful little program called Arq. Arq is a simple backup application developed by Haystack Software, which runs in the background and automatically keeps versions of folders you point it too. It’s similar to Time Machine in that regard, however the biggest differentiator is that it backs your files up to the cloud via Amazon’s S3. Additionally, Arq allows multiple computers to utilize the same S3 instance, which means my team and I can all share work files effortlessly. continue reading…