Designs by Seth Alling

The other day I was working on capturing screenshots for a plugin I’ve been working on and every screenshot I took didn’t include the cursor. Now, on most occasions this isn’t an issue, but I needed one of the shots to show drag and drop functionality, meaning that I needed the hand cursor.

Well, after trying out a variety of different screenshot programs, I still wasn’t able to get the desired result. I was able to figure out a way to show the drag and drop functionality, but the hand cursor was still missing. In the end, I determined, that I would just have to recreate it by hand.

By zooming in on the screen (CTRL-Scroll) I was able to see the hand cursor up close, although it was a bit fuzzy. From there I could then build the hand in Photoshop pixel by pixel. With much zooming in, remembering, and then zooming out and moving into photoshop, I was able to build it.

Because it’s wasn’t the most enjoyable experience, I’ve decided that if anyone else ever needed this cursor, then they can download it from my site.

Download the PSD Mac Hand Cursor. Inside the zip file is the cursor in PSD, PNG, and GIF formats.

What am I thankful for? In two days, I will get to fly out to Utah so I can finally be with my wife again after spending the last five weeks apart, and six weeks apart prior to that. We will be driving back to Michigan together and hopefully the weather doesn’t cause any problems. If there are no problems, I will also be thankful that we will make it back home in time for Thanksgiving.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I felt it would be appropriate to list some design freebies for the holiday. I’ve noticed in the past that Halloween and Christmas always seem to have icons, vectors, fonts, brushes and other resources available. Thanksgiving, on the other hand, is not the same, so hopefully these will come in handy to anyone who needs them. Also, a thank you to all of the designers who created these and made them available. Read more…