Design tool memory usage
How do various design tools utilise memory? What’s their baseline usage with no documents open? How does memory grow with lots of large documents open?
Shape builder vs pathfinder
In Adobe Illustrator, the shape builder tool and the pathfinder panel can both add and and subtract segments of overlapping shapes. They’re predominantly used to create complex shapes from simple ones.
Formulas for optical adjustments
A long-standing trope of the design world is that computers are bad at aligning and balancing the relative scales of elements. This is incorrect.
Smaller Mac app icons Jan 2023
Fingerprint icon speedrun Nov 2022
Fountain pen icon speedrun Nov 2022
Pushpin icon speedrun Nov 2022
Designing macOS menu bar extras Apr 2022
SVG passthrough precision Apr 2022
Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 Apr 2022
Camera iris icon speedrun Dec 2021
Design tool performance signatures Nov 2021
Diagnosing common colour management issues Aug 2021
macOS prefs tab icons are 27×27pt Jul 2021
What is pass-through blending? Apr 2021
Colour management, part 4 Apr 2021
Soccer ball icon speedrun Apr 2021
Using SVGs in asset catalogs Jul 2020
My Illustrator snapping settings May 2020
Perfect loops in Processing Aug 2019
Testing for wide gamut Jul 2019
Improving asset catalogs May 2019
Creating SVGs with Processing Jan 2019
Colour management, part 3 Mar 2018
Colour management, part 2 Dec 2017
Colour management, part 1 Oct 2017
Vector icon speedruns May 2017
My Mac app icon design workflow Feb 2017
Color Creator Templates Jan 2017
When two colours can be one Dec 2016
Mac external displays for designers and developers Dec 2016
Batch processing with Generator Jul 2016
Using blend if for masking Jul 2016
Photoshop CC 2015 improvements Jun 2015
My icon design workflow May 2015
Why Skala won't have artboards Apr 2015
Photoshop's gradient positioning Apr 2015
Why I don't use PDFs for iOS assets Mar 2015
Skala progress, December 2014 Dec 2014
Creating color palettes with adjustment layers Aug 2014
Smart Objects and Layer Comps in Photoshop CC 2014 Jun 2014
Images and the macOS Color Picker Mar 2014
Experimenting with linked Smart Objects Jan 2014
Extracting colours with alpha Aug 2013
Using Soulver for design Jul 2013
My app design workflow Jun 2013
Masking in Photoshop CS6 May 2013
Strokes in Photoshop CS6 Jan 2013
Just like print design Jan 2013
Layer tags in Photoshop CS6 Jan 2013
Using algebra to create paths Jan 2013
Sub-pixel text rendering Nov 2012
Scale Patterns to 100% Photoshop script Jun 2012
Text in Photoshop CS6 Jun 2012
Illustrator and app design Apr 2012
Vector shapes in Photoshop CS6 Mar 2012
Photoshop CS6 improvements Mar 2012
Pixels per inch is just a tag Mar 2012
PNG compression and iOS apps Dec 2011
Exporting from Photoshop Aug 2011
Pixel perfect rotation Mar 2011
Pixel perfect vector pasting Mar 2011
Pixel perfect vector nudging Jan 2011
What if iChat was one window? Dec 2010
Designing for Retina display, part 2 Dec 2010
Designing for the Retina display Aug 2010
A new Drobo Dashboard icon Jul 2010
Photoshop CS6 wish list Jul 2010
Dissecting iTunes, App Store and Mac App Store links Jun 2010
Photoshop roundrect roundup Jun 2010
What to do with all those extra pixels? Jun 2010
The settings used to be in the Settings app Oct 2009
Colour management and UI design Oct 2009