vladdanilov

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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   Needs to be zoomed out to 50% on retina screens. Better?
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   I want to like Figma but they've chosen a rather limiting way for a professional design tool, cloud-first and based on web technologies. Surely, Figma beats Sketch for modern interface design by using retained mode rendering (although
3. 93.▲
   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   It could have helped probably. There are plugins still charging $20-30+. But the recent trend is free and quality plugins around services and other tools. So that price felt right.
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   My actual experience with making commercial design plugins for Photoshop and Sketch ( http://designplugins.com/ ): 1. Exporting image assets from Photoshop, <$100 in 6 months, >1 year of work on and off 2. Optical adjus
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   I just leave a couple of excerpts for everyone to understand the level of competence up there. > After signing controversial anti-terrorist legislation earlier today, President Putin ordered the Federal Security Service (the FSB, the pos
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   Also have one project on autopilot. It's a set of Automator workflows for text manipulation in OS X apps https://github.com/vmdanilov/TextFlow . It had a warm welcome on HN https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   My reply on Twitter in full: Text blending in linear space perceived as “too thin” and inconsistent because font weights are choosen for the sRGB [1]. With light fonts at small sizes, sRGB blending also has apparent weight changes with the
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   But some of these values have to be reserved for those extra colors in the wide gamut colorspace. And sRGB just fits in that range. That's why to truly take advantage of the wide gamut, the whole rendering process from a software throu
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   by vladdanilov 10y ago

   Exactly. The Wide Gamut is simply a selling point to have "vivid" colors. But most of the images including UI are still sRGB. Showing them on a 24-bit wide-gamut display means every color component is mapped to only a subset of 0-
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    by vladdanilov 10y ago

    While quietly pulling off the ability to have PNG and GIF profile images against what stated in the documentation [1], leaving only poorly encoded JPEG [2]. And JPEG images are double compressed. [1] https://support.twitter.com&#
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    Allo: Google's AI-Powered Messaging App(youtube.com)

    8 points by vladdanilov 10y ago|0 comments
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    If you are on hidpi display, zoom to 50%. Also, please don't call it the worst before looking at this version https://twitter.com/vmdanilov/status/717282519356424193 .
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    What do you miss the most in Photoshop?
14. 104.▲
    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    Have a look at AA in Adobe XD first https://twitter.com/vmdanilov/status/712327571116056576 .
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    Anti-aliasing in modern design tools(twitter.com)

    3 points by vladdanilov 11y ago|0 comments
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    Here's a side by side comparison of general UI http://i.imgur.com/bViZN6Z.png and dialog UI http://i.imgur.com/AlclEsk.png (by Marc Edwards), and a new welcoming screen http://blogs.adobe.co
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    New Photoshop UI has become a major problem on the official feedback forum(feedback.photoshop.com)

    44 points by vladdanilov 11y ago|60 comments
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    The fun is multiplied by how Photoshop actually renders graphics. For example, 1-pixel drop shadow looks identical to 2-pixel one. When scripting, bounds of vector shapes may be off by 1 or 2 pixels due to some floating point math followed
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    The technology behind Figma is quite fascinating. From Twitter ( https://twitter.com/skuwamoto/status/672486788192055296 ): > We’re using C++ → asm.js for most of our app, so it would be tough. React-canvas, seem
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    Samsung Gear VR now available for pre-orders at $99(oculus.com)

    2 points by vladdanilov 11y ago|0 comments
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    Project Comet: Adobe Is Building a New Interface Design Tool on React(adobe.ly)

    6 points by vladdanilov 11y ago|0 comments
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    I expected more attention to detail for a project this big. They are using the new logos in a few places now. All suffer from various problems. The one on the Google Official Blog ( http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    Thank you too. I am currently working on Text Substitution performance. Please check back soon.
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    Thanks. I was walking on the edge with this one :)
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    Thank you. I thought on including some developer formatters. But decided it should be left to code editors. In particular there is JSCS linter ( http://jscs.info/ ), or SublimeLinter-JSCS as Sublime Text plugin ( https:/
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    I also find Script menu ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9586970 ) very useful. Perfect for utilities, starting SSH sessions, mounting drives, etc.
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    by vladdanilov 11y ago

    You may go to Script / Applescript Editor Preferences and check "Show Script menu in menu bar". This way you can have scripts organized in folders and available through the menu bar. Console apps / Shell scripts supporte
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    Show HN: TextFlow – Automator workflows for text manipulation in OS X(github.com)

    76 points by vladdanilov 11y ago|16 comments