I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop for, I don’t know, something like sixty years now, or at least some days it seems like that long. But I’m not a designer, and my Photoshop skillz are still rather primitive. Almost everything I’ve ever learned about how to use Photoshop has come from seeing the comps that real designers give me to develop, and Googling the things I find in them.
Well, one thing that’s always vexed me as I do my art production has been how to perfectly align images in a sprite file I’m putting together. (I know, I know, why not just use Compass? Because it has its pitfalls. I’m going to keep doing it old-school, at least for now.) But after years and years of hand-crafting and nudging, pixel by pixel, my own sprite files in Photoshop, I only recently licked the whole alignment thing. I share this with you now…
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