View Photoshop files in Safari? Yep.
Our designer here at Pressplane figured out that you can view Photoshop files from right within Safari. Pretty crazy. Never knew that was possible. Makes sense though. Who likes to export all their working .PSD files into a different format before uploading them to a server for review with remote team members or clients?
Batch resizing images with Photoshop CS3
We all have to batch resize images for Facebook or even Flickr sometimes. There are many decent ways to do it with Photoshop CS3. There is one incredibly easy way though. Just select File/Scripts/Image Processor. There is nothing else to do. Choose the file size and compression rate and batch resize hundreds of images automatically!
A new company is company to town. Parlate italiano?
For the time being, our new Pressplane offices are being shared with Max Ciccotosto over at Wishpot. Together, we occupy a space in the 911 Western Building wherein the lease holder is actually one of Max’s investors - an Italian company based near Venice called H-farm.
I’m looking forward to having these guys around. For starters, I think Seattle is really short on firms who consistently do really high end interactive design. H-farm’s customer list is like the who’s who of Italian luxury. From Diesel to Gucci to Telecom Italia, these guys have had a hand in some pretty serious web sites and applications. And now they will be in Seattle. Perhaps more interestingly, they will enter the incubator fray with a few of us. Besides spinning off companies, H-Farm seems to want to help its U.S. startups gain a foothold in the European market, while also introducing its broader portfolio to U.S. customers.
Are you a company in need of some serious web app design skills? Or, a company that is beginning to think there is a world outside North America? Come visit Suite 420 on 911 Western and say hello.
Pressplane closes $1.7 million Series A financing!
Pressplane is the latest company to be hatched by us here at Curious Office and we are pleased to announce the closing of our funding today!
Our $1.7 million Series A financing was led by Second Avenue Partners but we have a roster of other great investors:
Mika Salmi (President MTV Networks Digital / AtomFilms founder)
Rich Barton (Founder, Expedia / Zillow)
Erik Blachford (former Expedia CEO)
Andy Liu (BuddyTV)
Alex Algard (Founder, Whitepages)
Geoff Entress (Madrona)
Andy Sack
Adrian Hanauer (MLS Soccer, Curious Office co-founder)
John Cunningham
Dough Rowan (former Corbis CEO)
Unfortunately, I can’t say exactly what we are working on but I can say it is another “buy and sell marketplace” like our last company (Imagekind) but more around designers and creative content serving businesses. We’re obviously not competing with our new Imagekind owners (CafePress) but we are able to take what we learned from Imagekind and apply much of it to this new initiative.
Mika Salmi at MTV joins Mike Slade from Second Avenue on our board and we can be found diligently working away in these offices on 911 Western which we share with Wishpot.com Come by and say hi sometime!
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Icon bookmarks
I love to get ideas from the hardwork that others have invested in their icon designs. The good folks over at woork.com took the time to aggregate a good list of freebies. Worth a bookmark for sure.
A little type helper
Sometimes it is nice to see a bunch of type examples already laid out in CSS for you. That’s what www.typechart.com is all about. Pretty interesting way to remind you how the various combinations of type and size look together. Worth a bookmark.
