Look, I'll cop to it. At some levels, I'm a very lazy man.
Another way to look at it is that over the last few years, I've done a lot of template design for a company that wholesales; in designspëk, this translates as 'make it as cool as possible, but don't spend a lot of time on it because I'd like to pay you as little as possible.' It also means that when you're juggling 20 projects, you're probably not going to remember what filter settings you used and layers you moved around to accomplish a given effect -- and you don't have time for rediscovery when the client wants everything moved three pixels to the left before lunch.
Would I love the time to beat Alien Skin into submission and apply a host of filters and translations? You bet. But I don't often get it -- so I cheat. I've learned to friggin' love that little ƒ on the layers palette in Photoshop. Move it, change it, globally apply it, save them for other projects when you discover a cool one. Excellent. The dynamic filters are one of the best inventions since beer.
Or to put it into marketing language, it "optimizes your performance and efficiency".
To that end I offer up some of the ones I like to use, and will try to continue to expand the collection. Folks gave 'em to me, so I figure it's only karmically correct to spread the wealth. Enjoy.
Another way to look at it is that over the last few years, I've done a lot of template design for a company that wholesales; in designspëk, this translates as 'make it as cool as possible, but don't spend a lot of time on it because I'd like to pay you as little as possible.' It also means that when you're juggling 20 projects, you're probably not going to remember what filter settings you used and layers you moved around to accomplish a given effect -- and you don't have time for rediscovery when the client wants everything moved three pixels to the left before lunch.
Would I love the time to beat Alien Skin into submission and apply a host of filters and translations? You bet. But I don't often get it -- so I cheat. I've learned to friggin' love that little ƒ on the layers palette in Photoshop. Move it, change it, globally apply it, save them for other projects when you discover a cool one. Excellent. The dynamic filters are one of the best inventions since beer.
Or to put it into marketing language, it "optimizes your performance and efficiency".
To that end I offer up some of the ones I like to use, and will try to continue to expand the collection. Folks gave 'em to me, so I figure it's only karmically correct to spread the wealth. Enjoy.
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[ thin chrome ] Okay, sure -- chrome is one of those things that's both overdone and easy to overdo. But it does have it's uses, doesn't it? What's a gearhead site without it?
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[ gold text ] Eventually, you're going to meet that client that feels 'classy' equates to gold; they may or may not be wearing one of those nasty nugget rings. Voluntarily...
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[ infamous macos 'gel' buttons ] It's gotta be cool to be a designer at Apple. Set a trend, make it stick just because it's friendly, groovy and well thought out -- and make every other designer on the planets' head explode trying to emulate it.
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