Comments on: Quick Tip #31 Adding Details With A Photo Overlay

By: Learning From El Lissitzky | The Design O'Blog by Niki Brown

Learning From El Lissitzky | The Design O'Blog by Niki Brown — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:17:17 +0000

[...] designing consider adding depth by layering photographs using blending modes in photoshop or through some other means. Add texture that directs your users eye around the composition and [...]

By: Kyle Anderson

Kyle Anderson — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:09:15 +0000

Awesome tutorial! Simple, quick, and a great result!

Nice!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:08:09 +0000

You may know this already, but I noticed how much effort you put into resizing the image after you pasted it into the document.

When you’re in transform mode (after you’ve pressed Ctrl-T but before you press enter), you can press Ctrl-0 OR from the menu you can select View –> Fit On Screen and the window will zoom to fit the transform controls within the viewing area. Much quicker way to see the whole transform.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

By: Kaal

Kaal — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:57:10 +0000

Great tip, useful site for free comp images too.
One of my all time favourite feature in photshop is Perspective cropping, useful if you need to photo a painting with glass and need to use a flash, take from a little of to the side and use Perspective cropping to make square! Might be worth a mention as a future tip!
Many thanks, looking forward to the next tip.

By: rory

rory — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:10:56 +0000

Nice tip to spice up a boring banner. I use simple tricks like this all the time, on my clients web design they ask for plain coloured boxes often, so I slip in a subtle pattern and everyones happy!

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:28:38 +0000

This is great. Thanks a lot!
Christine

By: choen

choen — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:35:23 +0000

to simple.. but cool.

By: netsnake

netsnake — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:47:10 +0000

Feather basically turns a hard edge into a soft one, depending on the amount of pixels you provide in the dialog. If you feathered that selection by 50 pixels instead of contracting it, you’d get a gradient-like effect. Or feather by two pixels only to make the edge of your button blurry, not hard.

Greets
netsnake

P.S.: Nice effect! Totally forgot to say this…

By: Kish

Kish — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:32:31 +0000

Thanks heaps ! Super handy

By: Steph Adamo

Steph Adamo — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:23:37 +0000

cool idea!