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Choosing the Best Image Format in 2019: WebP, SVG Vs. Everyone

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What, did you think JPEG would live forever? It was introduced in 1992, more than twenty-five years ago! The modern generation of web developers uses WebP for images, not the archeological specimen that is JPEG. Here’s a quick introduction to WebP, SVG, and why they’re better. TL;DR: they’re way smaller, producing faster, and more responsive […]

The Developer’s Guide to the WebP Image Format

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The WebP image format is a new image encoding format that’s especially appealing to web developers. It can encode a high density of information within a given file size, allowing higher quality images at lower file sizes. Considering that images make up about 60-percent of the web, lower image file sizes mean faster loading pages, […]

Best Photoshop Plugins

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Photoshop is a powerful graphic design software that enables designers to work with both raster and vector images. The incredible algorithms and unmatchable user-friendly interface have helped this design software become a top choice on the market. Yet, what makes Photoshop truly unique is the impressive collection of free and premium plugins that designers can […]

Skillfully Swapping Faces In Photoshop Without Making It Noticeable

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Photoshop offers complete control over picture editing. From editing people into famous places around the world to replacing animal faces with human faces, Photoshop fanatics display all sorts of skills. If you are one too and want to learn to skilfully swap faces in Photoshop without letting anyone figure it out, follow the step-by-step tutorial […]

Adobe Keyboard Mapper Showcases Hundreds of Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

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Editor’s note: This post was written by John,  a design enthusiast with a passion for blogging, too. He regularly writes on the subject of design on his own blog, along with a number of other popular publications. He is also a design freelancer. If you’re a photographer, web designer, developer, blogger, magazine designer/editor, or even a […]

28 Photo Compositing Tutorials for Adobe Photoshop

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Many designers use Photoshop as a graphics editing tool or as a tool for creating website mockups. However Photoshop is primarily meant for digital photo editing. One such area of work is compositing which takes two(or more) photos and combines them together into one photo. Compositing is a difficult skill to pickup but very powerful […]

Simple Ideas to Improve Web Design Mockups

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The process of designing a full website layout comes in many stages. First is sometimes procrastination followed by sketching or writing down ideas. Then after getting frustrated and trashing all those ideas the process will repeat until a usable concept is born. At this point most designers will move on to actually designing a full […]