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August 8, 2012 New CanLinkIt Extends Smart Object function, Links Photoshop Files Together

Well, maybe you’re already familiar with Smart Object function in photoshop.

Yes, it’s a magical container that can hold images, vector graphics or any other complex set of layers. You can duplicate it many times within your file and one update will give changes to all instances. It’s really useful when you are working on design that use repeatable content and it will boost your design workflow effectiveness.

But did you know, there is a Photoshop plugin that will perform the similar task as smart object function do, but giving you more additional benefits?

Folks, please have a look at CanLinkIt and I’m sure you will love it.

I will say that it’s basically a Photoshop Smart Object with additional benefits : collaboration function and giving a smaller size to your .psd file.

Imagine that you can put your smart object as a file and let your teammate to update it while you are working on other aspect of the main design file.
When you are finished, with one click, all designs will be merged flawlessly.
Isn’t it great?

And, as the file size will decrease because the design elements stored in different files, now your photoshop will load faster. (Have you noticed that Photoshop can be slow with big files?)
Awesome.

If you’re still not sure what I’m talking about please take time to see this 1 minute demo video :

Then if you’re sold, you can download it from CanLinkIt website for FREE!!

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August 5, 2012 Open In Espresso Finder Droplet

I use Espresso on daily basis. It’s not so extensible as Sublime Text or TextMate, but it simply fulfills my needs as a fancy web developer who mostly works with html, css, a little bit js and php. Basically, I like how its css auto-completion saves my time.

However, I’m not a fan of its “Project Based” workflow.  Sometimes I work on many folders which are located on different roots, so  dragging folders from Finder to the Espresso Icon in the dock menu is what I’ve done most of time and I’m not really comfortable with it.

Then I found a finder droplet which is allows us to open any folder in Espresso, easily from Finder. It’s created by paperkilledrock based on OpenInTextMate code created by Henrik Nyh.

The droplet itself was good but I wasn’t really happy with the icon, so I decided to make my own version to make it blend better with Finder toolbar.

You can download the droplet from here or you can download the original version from the paperkilledrock website.

To install it, you just need to drag the app to your Applications folder and then drag it into your finder toolbar.
Now you can open any folder in Espresso from your finder without having to create a project first or dragging it to the dock menu.

Enjoy!

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