Photoshop Zone

10 Tips For Creating Website Mockups In Photoshop Here are some things I’ve discovered while creating website mockups in Photoshop. They’re not gospel, just things that you may find helpful: 1. Use shapes and shape layers as often as possible. You can resize then easily without quality loss, good for later changes. 2. Blending options are your friend. Double click a shape layer and you can do all sorts of effects: gradients, shadows, color overlay. They’re much easier to make changes to later on when a client says: “Can I see that gradient in blue?” 3. Use Crisp antialiasing on your font layers. It’s much closer to browser rendering. Keep in mind that most modern operating systems don’t smooth fonts below 11 or 12 pixels, so for smaller fonts, you’re probably better off setting it to None. 4. Use web safe fonts on any parts of the site with live text. You might be able to wow the client by using Verlag for the body text of your mockup, but you’ll have a...