A blog by Ben Gilman

I’ve just been putting the finishing touches to a simple website for an artist friend, Allan Williams to showcase the results of a recent project he’s undertaken to document the people and images of the soon-to-be London 2012 Olympic site in London’s East End.

Take a look at www.beforelondon2012.com to see all the pictures and interviews with the people involved.

This is hugely annoying - I can’t quite imagine why Photoshop needs to have a ‘layer group nesting limit’? Maybe I need to reconsider the way I create my page comps…

Erm….ok. So the two-letter logos for all the products in Adobe Creative Suite 3 weren’t exactly imaginative but I don’t get this one either…it looks a little like a demented blue Pacman or a speech bubble maybe…neither of which has much to do with Photoshop. Also reminds me a little of the Open University logo… mmmm, glass with holes.

Good write-up from Brand New over here with comments covering everything, I just wrote - so, not an original thought but still valid I think.

Strange decision, strange logo. Also, where to next? Can we expect one of these for each of their vaguely web-related products…

Whilst this might a very well-known Photoshop tip, I’m going to share it anyway. When you drag a guide out from the ruler, holding down SHIFT forces the guide to snap to the ruler units - if you’re zoomed well in then they snap to pixels - which is perfect when you’re mocking up grid-based website layouts.

Hope that helped someone, it certainly helped me when I discovered it recently!

EDIT: You need to have View > Snap activated for this to work.