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Category Archives: Tips

Little snippets of information to help you perform tasks more quickly and efficiently or to highlight a feature or function that you were unaware of.

ie 7 min-width and button bug

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A bug for anyone needing ie7 compatible forms using a min-width on the buttons. This also affects ie8 running in compatibility mode. input.submitbutton { min-width: 100px; } If you are using a min-width for your form submit buttons then sadly ie7 will align button text to the right of the button. It is un-fixable with [...]

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Stock images

Sunday, March 18, 2007

When making an image it is often necessary to use images as backgrounds or parts of images as textures. Since I am not loaded I have to find the cheap ways to get them. The best way to get some images is to go out and about and take photos of everything. The draw back [...]

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Photoshop shortcuts 01

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Here is a small collection of a few of the shortcut commands and keys I find very useful in photoshop. Some you will probably know about, but some you might not

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Multiple viewing windows

Monday, March 5, 2007

Do you want to work on a close up of your image and see the bigger picture at the same time without having to buy a 52″+ Super High definition monitor? Simple. Photoshop lets you open more than one window of the same image. With your image window selected simply go to “Window > Arrange [...]

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Type basics and font resources

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Any product or graphic you produce will probably need some form of type on it. You might think all you need to do is choose a font and type away. Wrong! Well 99% of the time anyway. Whether its a simple tag line or a paragraph of information you have to consider two things. Fonts [...]

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