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Designing for iPhone 4′s Retina Display: What I’ve Learned

This post was written by Jason on September 17, 2010

With the introduction of the iPhone 4 and it’s new retina display, the process of designing for iDevices became a bit more complicated. In addition to creating designs for the standard resolution screens of the iPhone, iPod, and iPad, we must now create a higher resolution version for the iPhone 4. To help make things a bit easier, this post lists the most important things I’ve learned from my first venture into designing for the retina display.
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Evolving The Digital Designer’s Routine.

This post was written by Evan on September 16, 2010

Everyone’s daily routine varies based on their everyday experiences, designers are no different. For the most part, however, we all have one goal in mind, “How can this be done more efficiently?” I have asked myself that question daily and have went through countless numbers of free trials for programs that handle various tasks. I like to kick the tires, but do you blame me. Investing money – and more importantly time – into something that may work is somewhat of a risk. continue reading…

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Tip/Rant: The Problem with Photoshop Auto-Select

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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