10 Photoshop tips that a designer must master

For web designers, the design will have some of their own action, mainly for the Photoshoop software, such as font selection, color security, layer collation and so on.

For web Designers , the design will have some of their own action, mainly for the Photoshoop software, such as font selection, color security, layer collation and so on. For a good designer will certainly take these as their own professional habits to be retained, which for the future self-improvement is also good.

1. Use path and shape layers as much as possible.
So you can change it in the back when you want to change it.

2. Layer style, is your good friend.
Double-click the layer and you can do it in a variety of ways: gradients, shadows, and overlapping colors. This can be easier to modify. Like a

Customer said: "This can be changed to blue?"

3. Use sharp text on a type layer.
because it is easier for users to see clearly. When the font is less than 12 pixels, use the sharp font as much as possible.
If the word is off for an hour, set the properties of the text to none. The following figure:

4. Use the "Network safe fonts" as much as possible when selecting fonts.
in the browser now, if the proxy user's computer does not have the font you designed, it will use the default font,
Or use a different font instead. But in the logo or in the picture using the design text, you can put those fonts
Cut into slices.

5. Place similar layers in the same group.
For example, we can put the head layer of the page into a folder, so that can be easily modified, but also convenient
Layer management.

6. Build separate layers on the same Web page for duplicate locations.
in a Web site, the most change is content. and Footer,header,sidebar, usually unchanged.
So we can have the folder structure in Photoshop. For example:

>content-frot page
>content-contact form
>content-entry

7. When you save the picture in JPEG format, the quality selection is 100%.
When you save, you can choose 80% to save space, but the quality of the picture changes.
In this question, there is no fixed answer, choose from what you want.

8. Set the width of the Web page .
If you are aiming for the screen for 800px, then the width should not exceed 760.
If it is 1024px, do not exceed 960px. Most users now use 1024 of their computers, and
Higher. So setting a Web page width of 960 is a mainstream.

9. Look for more information, and then do it yourself .

10. Below is an example of an interest that can be downloaded to do a hands-on