To this day, my tutorial on removing image backgrounds non-destructively using Adobe Fireworks is still by far the most visited page on this site. I still receive email about it and questions from people requesting help with how to deal with their own images or more complex images than the ones the tutorial covered. So, I’m…
Tag Archive: Web design
Now is a Good Time to be a Fireworks Evangelist
I could not imagine my creative process without Adobe Fireworks. I have been using that application since version 2.0 sometime in 1999. 10 years ago, Fireworks was not an obvious choice but the workflow advantages over Photoshop were immediately evident to me and my creative process never was the same. Unfortunately, it took almost all those years…
My Top 10 Web Design Tools
I had already started working on a blog post with my top 10 most useful Web design tools but, like many other things these days, I had continually postponed finishing it in favor of “more important things”. Like client work… But I saw a post today on the Visualrinse blog that tackled the same topic so it prompted me…
Google Chrome
I just downloaded and installed Google Chrome after reading the comic book that explains the details of the project. I had been hearing rumors about it last week but I didn’t pay much attention to them. In the last couple days there had seemed to be much anticipation (and over-hype) about its release and what it means.…
Understanding Web Design
It’s rare that I simply link to a post or article when i have nothing to add. In fact I’ve really tried to avoid that on this blog. But the following article by Jeffrey Zeldman on A List Apart is really worth reading and says everything better than I could: Understanding Web Design It’s a must read… really.
