Tag: MASKING

Adobe's working on some new selection and masking tools for the next version of Photoshop. Ever since the Extract filter was removed in Photoshop CS4, Adobe has had plans to bring its various parts back as built-in tools. The first part of that is a new selection tool that's already being demoed over at John Nack's Adobe blog. The future of selection in Photoshop looks pretty bright, because this ...

Password masking - the practice of replacing the characters a user types into password entry field with bullets - has been widespread on the web for a long time. Jakob Nielsen recently wrote a thought-provoking post suggesting masking is hurting more than it helps, and that it's only being kept around out of habit. I'll try to make the case for and against masking here, and let Download Squad ...