In the initial version of the upcoming Update conference web site, I'm optimizing for desktop, iPad, and iPhone-tier phones. This means that I have to create five different versions of nearly every image. One for the desktop size, one for 320px wide screens, one for 480px wide screens, and two for the Retina (@2X) resolutions. Of course, saving all those images by hand would suck. And it's not enough just to resize the images and export them for web since, when resized, I need to unsharp mask them to make sure they're not blurry.

I initially thought I could record an action to do this, but the Photoshop file I have for the graphics has dozens of layers. I thought I could use the Layer comps to files… script that ships with Photoshop but – while it let me export layer comps to files – it wouldn't let me add custom actions in the middle of the process (in this case to unsharp mask the image once it was resized).

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It’s exactly 20 years since Adobe unleashed Photoshop 1.0, and we celebrate by asking creative experts about their lives with the all-conquering image behemoth… So to celebrate its 20th birthday we got in touch with some of the top names in our big creative address book and asked them about their relationship with Photoshop.

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Clicking on a link from Jens on Twitter, I found myself reading a news report about how Iran fired some missiles and then doctored the images.

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I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch.

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