https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog Practical notes on PSD internals, colour management and shipping images for the web. en https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/cutouts-and-masks https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/cutouts-and-masks Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT A cutout is judged at the edges. How the selection tools differ, why a quick mask beats a hard selection, and the four-step edge routine that survives zooming in. Selections Retouching https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/browser-image-workflow https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/browser-image-workflow Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT No desktop suite, no upload step: what a browser editor can do for a working designer or marketer, where it stops, and how to organise the handoffs around it. Workflow Tools https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/image-formats-compared https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/image-formats-compared Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five formats that answer five different questions. A comparison on the axes that decide real projects: loss, transparency, layers, animation and browser support. File formats Comparison https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/export-for-web https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/export-for-web Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most slow pages are caused by three decisions made in the editor: the wrong dimensions, the wrong format and a quality slider set to 100. A practical checklist that fixes all three. Export Performance https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/color-management https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/color-management Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The same hex code can look different on two screens and in two apps. Here is where colour differences actually come from, and the three rules that prevent most of them. Colour Colour management https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/layers-and-masks https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/layers-and-masks Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Layers are not stacked images — they are instructions evaluated bottom-up at render time. Once that clicks, masks, clipping and adjustment layers stop being mysterious. Layers Workflow https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/psd-format-explained https://photocraft-web-f5d.pages.dev/blog/psd-format-explained Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A PSD is not a picture with layers glued on. It is a container with a header, colour blocks, layer records and a separate flattened composite — which explains most of its odd behaviour. PSD File formats