Ui Photoshop

1. One of the best ways to produce UI assets for Xcode is to design your Photoshop layouts to an underlying retina base. Set your macro grid (columns, rows, and gutters) to whichever dimensions you prefer, but make sure you work to an underlying base set in 2 pixels increments.
2. The UI templates are also available in many styles and popular formats (Photoshop PSD, Figma, Sketch.app, and Adobe XD). We hope you will find them all useful. You might also like to take a look at these collections of 50 Free Mobile UI Kits for iOS & Android, Free PSD Web Templates, Free HTML Templates, or Free Icon Sets.

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Create a Slider UI Design with Photoshop In this tutorial, you will see how to create a simple slider user interface (UI) using basic (but powerful) Photoshop features — shapes and layer styles — to achieve our goal. In this Photoshop tutorial, we will create a stacked blob effect using shape layers and layer styles. We will work with a beautiful palette of colors and use blurs to create a false sense of depth in our graphics as well. If you do UI design or just like graphic design, this is a good Photoshop tutorial for you!

Photoshop is a great tool that can help you create amazing UI designs. But as powerful as Photoshop is, there is no denying it that accomplishing certain things takes time. In addition to that, sometimes you need to collaborate with others on the same design file which can get tricky.

That’s where Photoshop plugins come in handy. They speed up and improve your workflow and in this post, we’ve gathered the best Photoshop plugins for UI designers.

The Photoshop Toolbox
Unlimited Downloads: 500,000+ Actions, Brushes, Mockups, Web Templates & Much More!

Ink Specs For Your Photoshop Layers

Thanks to this plugin, you can easily provide other members of your team with extra important information about your mockups by documenting your layers, from typography to effects and shape sizes.

CSS3Ps

Easily convert your Photoshop layers into CSS with the help of this plugin. The plugin supports text layers, border radius, gradient overlays, and more. All you have to do is click the button and the plugin will generate the necessary CSS for you.

Titlemizer Photoshop Plugin(with Envato Elements Subscription)

This premium plugin will generate random relevant titles, leads, texts, dates and usernames. The plugin supports topics such as technology, eCurrently supports English, Ukrainian and Russian text generation for three thematic categories: Technology, Economics and Politics.

Zoom Tool

If you ever need to see the fine details of your design, the Zoom Tool plugin will come in handy. The plugin supports scaling the design area to real size and the size that’s 2 times bigger than the device area. Perfect for Retina screens!

Photoshop HTML Block

With the help of this plugin, you will be able to easily generate HTML and CSS code from your designs. The plugin will also place the generated code inside a special block in Photoshop.

Slice Maker

The Slice Maker makes creating Android’s DPI assets easy. This Photoshop extension does all the heavy lifting for you and gives you control on each generated image before the export.

Seamless Pattern Creation Kit(with Envato Elements Subscription)

Patterns can enrich any design and with the help of this plugin, you can easily create seamless patterns with a click of a button. You can easily preview the pattern before creating them.

Font Finder

If you use a lot of fonts in your designs, locating which font was used on which layer is cumbersome. Well, this plugin solves that as it allows you to easily locate and select layers by font used so you can update them.

FontAwesomePS

FontAwesome icons are one of the most popular icon sets and with the help of this Photoshop plugin, you can now easily add them to your designs.

Skeuomorphism.it?

Skeuomorphism is dead so there is no point in living in the past. This Photoshop plugin will help you become a flat design pro with the help of a button.

Louca UI Kit(with Envato Elements Subscription)

This huge pack of UI elements contains an impressive 180 blocks made exclusively for Photoshop. All of the elements are vector-based and use well-organized layers.

Browser Layout Wrapper

Ever wanted to see how your Photoshop design would look in browser without exporting it? Well this plugin makes it easy as you can capture the Photoshop document and turn it into a browser window inside Safari.

Craft Photoshop Plugin

Ui Font In Photoshop

Thanks to this plugin, you can easily sync your Photoshop designs to InVision for better and faster prototyping. This can greatly speed up your workflow as it allows you to design, prototype, and collaborate within your design environment.

Export all Text for PSD

Use this plugin to export all the text in your Photoshop file to a plain text file. This is useful if you’re working with real copy as well as if you need to translate the text into a different language.

Amber UI Kit(with Envato Elements Subscription)

This modern and minimalistic UI kit can be used in Photoshop. It includes a 12-column layout, more than a 1000 icons, and tons of elements that will allow you to create a beautiful website mockup.

2xScaler

Easily see how your design will look on retina screens with the help of this plugin. The plugin will double scale your design without any loss of quality.

Layrs Control 2

With the help of this plugin, you will be able to easily cross off those final edits of your to do list. The plugin contains 7 useful scripts for renaming layers, removing unused effects, deleting empty layers, and more.

Griddify

Use this plugin to create custom grids in Photoshop. The plugin also allows you to create vertical rhythm, set gutters, and do other cool things with guides inside Photoshop.

WeDot Wireframe UI Kit(with Envato Elements Subscription)

WeDot is a premium UI kit for Photoshop that’s included as a part of your Envato Elements subscription. The kit contains 170+ templates so you can easily prototype or design any kind of website or app in mere minutes.

EasyMockups Plugin

This free Photoshop plugin allows you to easily create app prototypes and show off your app designs. The plugin comes with 10 mockups to choose from.

IsometrIcon Generator

Use this plugin to transform generic Photoshop shapes into isometric creations. The plugin comes with 4 different transformations and can even generate cubes.

Composer for Photoshop

Layer comps help you provide more context for your designs but they can be tedious to update. This plugin makes it easy to update all your layer comps with a click of a button.

Paper Wireframe Kit(with Envato Elements Subscription)

This paper wireframe kit makes it easy to create clean and impressive wireframes for your projects. The kit is available as a part of your Envato Elements subscription.

Long Shadow Generator

Long shadows are all the rage now and with the help of this plugin, you will be able to easily generate them whenever you want. The plugin gives you full control over the shadow’s opacity and length.

Exporter for Game Developers

This plugin is a great choice for anyone in need of advanced export options. It offers combined functionality of layer comps, masks, and actions for advanced exporting tasks.

Expresso

If you’re a 3D artist, this plugin will come in handy. Using it, you can greatly improve your workflow as it offers a set of utility panels that speed up slow, repetitive, and error-prone tasks.

SuperPNG

Use this plugin if you export your designs as PNG files often. It offers greater control over the PNG export as well as better support for alpha channel handling.

Pixel to Vector Generator

This little plugin is one of the most popular Photoshop plugins and it offers a nifty functionality: easily convert pixel shapes into vector shapes so you can resize and manipulate them without losing quality.

Velositey Version 2

This plugin helps you create website mockups inside Photoshop with ease. The plugin is lightweight and speeds up the workflow by allowing you to specify the number of columns, premade layouts, and more with a click of a button.

Seamless Texture Generator

Ever wanted to create a seamless texture from a picture quickly? This extension will help you do just that and what’s even better, it’ll do it in a fraction of the time needed to do it manually.

Renamy CC Plugin

Renaming your layers one by one is time-consuming. This plugin solves that problem as it allows you to easily rename multiple plugins at the same time.

Size Marks

Never wonder again which size is your document or a particular element in your design. With the help of this plugin, you will be able to easily add size marks to your Photoshop documents.

Brand.ai Photoshop Plugin

Brand.ai helps maintain consistency across your brand and now you can easily use your Brand.ai style guide colors in Photoshop.

Whether you’re trying to eliminate repetitive tasks or speed up your workflow, there is a Photoshop plugin out there that will help you achieve a certain task in a more efficient way. Stock up on Photoshop plugins from this list and easily rename multiple layers, gain better control over your PNG exports, and more.

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Here are 18 Detailed Photoshop UI Design Tutorials to creating professional-quality graphic elements for web pages and multimedia output.

The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects have highlights and shadows just like objects on your desk might have, and they have textures that emulate real objects from glass to sandpaper and everything in between. Designing beautiful user interfaces has more to do with the why than the how.

Enlarge Photoshop Ui

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use light and shadow to make realistic artwork – in this case, a record player app icon. Using Photoshop’s powerful layer styles, I’ll show you how to produce impressive results in a short amount of time.

In this tutorial we’re going to be designing an iPhone user interface for a forum and chat based mobile application. The app involves a handful of everyday touch interface elements, such as buttons, input fields and touch gestures. We will be covering various Photoshop tools, layer styles and of course tackling any design constraints; as well making the design pixel-perfect and beautiful enough to be worthy of a place on an iPhone screen.
The design was put together using Photoshop CS5.5, however all recent versions of Photoshop will work wonderfully.

In this tutorial we will create a clean Twitter app interface in Photoshop using layer styles and basic vector shapes.

In this tutorial you will learn simple but elegant techniques that you can apply on your designs!

In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn you how to build a clean and sleek streaming video player user interface. Along the way, you’ll learn some popular effects and techniques often used in modern web design. We’ll use tools like the Rectangular Marquee Tool, Horizontal Type Tool and Rounded Rectangle Tool and we will work with layer styles, which gives us flexibility.

In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a gorgeous and modern user interface button suitable for the web or a mobile interface design.

In this tutorial we will show you how to design a Mobile Calendar App in Photoshop.

Visually exciting interfaces have progressed in leaps and bounds over the past few years. This tutorial will show you some clever interfacing techniques and how to build a sleek interface of your own.

How to create a twitter UI box for your website or desktop application.

In this tut we’ll learn to create a media player interface in bold, modern colors 🙂 Cause…you know, what’s the point in being a good interface designer if you don’t go with the times and color trends?

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to design a sleek audio player interface in Adobe Photoshop.

One of the most important aspects of playing a video game is how information is presented. How the graphics are presented makes a major difference in how the players will perceive the game during play. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to design a video game interface window. During the process we will show how to manually draw certain aspects, apply layer styles, textures, and even how to incorporate Adobe Illustrator.

How to create an amplifier interface using simple shapes and layer styles.

With some simple techniques we will create a beautiful login interface. We will be using some variations of the color gray to help keep the interface as simple, elegant and minimal as possible.

How to Create a Detailed Audio player in Photoshop.

In this web design tutorial we will create a portfolio web layout using fabric textures.

How to create a one-page retro web design using Adobe Photoshop.