Rethinking the Inspector

Sunday, 31st October at 08:12am

This is a really great idea from Keith Lang, co-founder of Skitch. It’s actually quite an old post now, but I thought it was worth bringing up again because the new generation of small-screened, ultra-portable notebooks will need this kind of behaviour more and more.

Via UI&us

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The many sliders of Photoshop CS4

Sunday, 8th November at 01:29pm

Preferences —> Memory Usage

Adjustments —> Brightness/Contrast

Filters

Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)

Layer Blending

Layer Style

Threshold

Color Balance

Things to keep in mind:

1. These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
   
   
2. The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
3. They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
4. None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
   
   

[Source] via Daring Fireball

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