Nudge Up

9-bits:

Teehan+Lax have, at long last, released their Retina-ready iPad GUI PSD. Longtime readers will know that I normally post whenever Teehan+Lax release one of their Photoshop-based mobile UI sets, but this one is different: With the overall resolution in the new iPad, and some of the newer elements in iOS 5.1, the scale of this project was immense (as anyone following Geoff on Twitter already knows). It’s also quite interesting that the file was made in and requires the Photoshop CS6 beta:

It’s a free download right now and, in my humble opinion, one of the best releases of Photoshop to date. Its perfect pixel snapping, grouped layer styles and a few other features enabled us to create the assets with more accuracy, yet remain remarkably editable.

You’ll have to download the PSD to see all of the detail and labor that must have gone into making it. Congrats to the team!

Installing the original Creative Suite in 2011.

I often mention to friends that my favorite version of Photoshop was probably 7. It had pretty much everything I needed and nothing I didn’t. Here I am finding myself installing the original Adobe Creative Suite on my daughter’s iMac so she can use it. It’s sad that none of the current offerings (Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator, etc.) really worked for what she was looking for and I realized that digging into my old installers was the way to go. Plus what great nostalgia as I watch the old installer splashscreens go by.

I use Adobe Web Premium CS5 now at work everyday. But if you asked me the standout features that made it worthwhile to upgrade, I couldn’t really tell you. I know one version was that they added the ability to hit the Delete key to delete a layer in Photoshop. That was my favorite feature for one of them. 

So watching as this installer loads up and seeing that Photoshop still has it’s own browser instead of the abysmal Bridge, I may have to change my opinion that Photoshop CS was my favorite. We’ll see.