I'm a designer . I don't do any coding, just design. I work in InDesign, Illustrator, occasionally photoshop. I then hand off my Illustrator/PSD design files to the developer who applies the code. Sometimes i run into trouble and endless QA with my friend web designer over the mock up sites i design
In my opinion, there's two sides to this:
1) as a Graphic designer i should know the limitations that exist when designing for the web.
2) the developer should be able to match my design perfectly as long as my requirements are realistic for a web design (hence point #1) such as using a 960 Grid System template and using a 10px grid with snap to to grid turned on in photoshop/illustrator. That way all my layout elements will be 10px/20px/30px/etc apart and easier to work out, code wise.
Here's a website that lists a set of guidelines for communicating your designs to the developer:
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
photoshopetiquette dot com
Hope it's useful for the designers who mostly do print collateral.
Showing posts with label RGB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RGB. Show all posts
Monday, May 30, 2011
Monday, April 12, 2010
Adobe CS5 suite review 10:43 AM
To begin, I must say that I detected in the suite CS5 one of the major flaws of the CS4: it requires too much RAM and memory. Adobe software, in the past few years has shown a very annoying tendency to double the memory required to install the newer version of every software they own. 600 Mb in Photoshop CS2 turned into 2 Gb CS4, and now, as expected, you’d better have 3 and a half gigabytes to spare in your hard drive.
Another defect of this new suite is the very unpractical habit of sucking 110% of the resources of the machine, requiring an insane RAM and a demented graphic card for the programs to work properly. It makes me laugh that all the Adobe promotional videos are made with Macintosh computers, presumably more powerful than the sword of He-man, and yet all the new tools make them work slowly. The brushes have a good "delay, you will have to wait about 30 seconds (if no more) to apply certain filters ... and so on.
I must say, as a point in favor of the suite, that this time Adobe has had the detail of not having the whole interface changed, they have kept the CS4 design.
In the case of Photoshop, the 3D aspect has been polished. As a plus point, I must admit that the professional versions of the programs are well prepared to work all together because they are fully compatible. However, if God invented compatibility, the devil invented Bridge, a plague they didn’t got rid off in this new version.
I got really upset when I reviewed the new batch of tools of CS5. Each and every one of them (and I mean this for every program, not just Photoshop) are designed to make the softwares more accessible to the public. Don’t get me wrong, but as an artist with experience in the suite, cause I use it continuously to work, I feel infinitely ignored by programmers.
There are few improvements to make life easier for the professional user, such as being able to edit multiple layers at once. But the new tools are basically a candy collection for the general public, to make them able to play with digital creation. They have finally released "Flash Elements" under the name "Flash Catalyst" to make the creation of multimedia environments accessible to the average designer.
In conclusion. The CS5 suite is a somehow an extended version of CS4,but with many bugs solved; with a collection of tools for the public to play with the digital creation, but with little improvement for the professionals.
Adapted from deviant http://news.deviantart.com/article/114507/
Another defect of this new suite is the very unpractical habit of sucking 110% of the resources of the machine, requiring an insane RAM and a demented graphic card for the programs to work properly. It makes me laugh that all the Adobe promotional videos are made with Macintosh computers, presumably more powerful than the sword of He-man, and yet all the new tools make them work slowly. The brushes have a good "delay, you will have to wait about 30 seconds (if no more) to apply certain filters ... and so on.
I must say, as a point in favor of the suite, that this time Adobe has had the detail of not having the whole interface changed, they have kept the CS4 design.
In the case of Photoshop, the 3D aspect has been polished. As a plus point, I must admit that the professional versions of the programs are well prepared to work all together because they are fully compatible. However, if God invented compatibility, the devil invented Bridge, a plague they didn’t got rid off in this new version.
I got really upset when I reviewed the new batch of tools of CS5. Each and every one of them (and I mean this for every program, not just Photoshop) are designed to make the softwares more accessible to the public. Don’t get me wrong, but as an artist with experience in the suite, cause I use it continuously to work, I feel infinitely ignored by programmers.
There are few improvements to make life easier for the professional user, such as being able to edit multiple layers at once. But the new tools are basically a candy collection for the general public, to make them able to play with digital creation. They have finally released "Flash Elements" under the name "Flash Catalyst" to make the creation of multimedia environments accessible to the average designer.
In conclusion. The CS5 suite is a somehow an extended version of CS4,but with many bugs solved; with a collection of tools for the public to play with the digital creation, but with little improvement for the professionals.
Adapted from deviant http://news.deviantart.com/article/114507/
Friday, December 11, 2009
Use RGB Images for Desktop Printers 5:50 AM
CMYK is the standard colour mode for offset printing. However there are times when you need your images to be RGB even when you print them. This happens usually when you print with your inkjet printer. Because the average user usually doesn’t know the difference between RGB and CMYK and will often print pictures from a camera, most desktop printers have been built with assumption that the images tha are sent to them will be RGB.
There are other situations in the printing field where your images have to be RGB: In certain colour managed environments, even if the final output is offset, and with some digital printers.
There are other situations in the printing field where your images have to be RGB: In certain colour managed environments, even if the final output is offset, and with some digital printers.
Showing posts with label RGB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RGB. Show all posts
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web
7:25 AM
I'm a designer . I don't do any coding, just design. I work in InDesign, Illustrator, occasionally photoshop. I then hand off my Illustrator/PSD design files to the developer who applies the code. Sometimes i run into trouble and endless QA with my friend web designer over the mock up sites i design
In my opinion, there's two sides to this:
1) as a Graphic designer i should know the limitations that exist when designing for the web.
2) the developer should be able to match my design perfectly as long as my requirements are realistic for a web design (hence point #1) such as using a 960 Grid System template and using a 10px grid with snap to to grid turned on in photoshop/illustrator. That way all my layout elements will be 10px/20px/30px/etc apart and easier to work out, code wise.
Here's a website that lists a set of guidelines for communicating your designs to the developer:
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
photoshopetiquette dot com
Hope it's useful for the designers who mostly do print collateral.
In my opinion, there's two sides to this:
1) as a Graphic designer i should know the limitations that exist when designing for the web.
2) the developer should be able to match my design perfectly as long as my requirements are realistic for a web design (hence point #1) such as using a 960 Grid System template and using a 10px grid with snap to to grid turned on in photoshop/illustrator. That way all my layout elements will be 10px/20px/30px/etc apart and easier to work out, code wise.
Here's a website that lists a set of guidelines for communicating your designs to the developer:
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
photoshopetiquette dot com
Hope it's useful for the designers who mostly do print collateral.
Read more...
Adobe CS5 suite review
10:43 AM
To begin, I must say that I detected in the suite CS5 one of the major flaws of the CS4: it requires too much RAM and memory. Adobe software, in the past few years has shown a very annoying tendency to double the memory required to install the newer version of every software they own. 600 Mb in Photoshop CS2 turned into 2 Gb CS4, and now, as expected, you’d better have 3 and a half gigabytes to spare in your hard drive.
Another defect of this new suite is the very unpractical habit of sucking 110% of the resources of the machine, requiring an insane RAM and a demented graphic card for the programs to work properly. It makes me laugh that all the Adobe promotional videos are made with Macintosh computers, presumably more powerful than the sword of He-man, and yet all the new tools make them work slowly. The brushes have a good "delay, you will have to wait about 30 seconds (if no more) to apply certain filters ... and so on.
I must say, as a point in favor of the suite, that this time Adobe has had the detail of not having the whole interface changed, they have kept the CS4 design.
In the case of Photoshop, the 3D aspect has been polished. As a plus point, I must admit that the professional versions of the programs are well prepared to work all together because they are fully compatible. However, if God invented compatibility, the devil invented Bridge, a plague they didn’t got rid off in this new version.
I got really upset when I reviewed the new batch of tools of CS5. Each and every one of them (and I mean this for every program, not just Photoshop) are designed to make the softwares more accessible to the public. Don’t get me wrong, but as an artist with experience in the suite, cause I use it continuously to work, I feel infinitely ignored by programmers.
There are few improvements to make life easier for the professional user, such as being able to edit multiple layers at once. But the new tools are basically a candy collection for the general public, to make them able to play with digital creation. They have finally released "Flash Elements" under the name "Flash Catalyst" to make the creation of multimedia environments accessible to the average designer.
In conclusion. The CS5 suite is a somehow an extended version of CS4,but with many bugs solved; with a collection of tools for the public to play with the digital creation, but with little improvement for the professionals.
Adapted from deviant http://news.deviantart.com/article/114507/
Another defect of this new suite is the very unpractical habit of sucking 110% of the resources of the machine, requiring an insane RAM and a demented graphic card for the programs to work properly. It makes me laugh that all the Adobe promotional videos are made with Macintosh computers, presumably more powerful than the sword of He-man, and yet all the new tools make them work slowly. The brushes have a good "delay, you will have to wait about 30 seconds (if no more) to apply certain filters ... and so on.
I must say, as a point in favor of the suite, that this time Adobe has had the detail of not having the whole interface changed, they have kept the CS4 design.
In the case of Photoshop, the 3D aspect has been polished. As a plus point, I must admit that the professional versions of the programs are well prepared to work all together because they are fully compatible. However, if God invented compatibility, the devil invented Bridge, a plague they didn’t got rid off in this new version.
I got really upset when I reviewed the new batch of tools of CS5. Each and every one of them (and I mean this for every program, not just Photoshop) are designed to make the softwares more accessible to the public. Don’t get me wrong, but as an artist with experience in the suite, cause I use it continuously to work, I feel infinitely ignored by programmers.
There are few improvements to make life easier for the professional user, such as being able to edit multiple layers at once. But the new tools are basically a candy collection for the general public, to make them able to play with digital creation. They have finally released "Flash Elements" under the name "Flash Catalyst" to make the creation of multimedia environments accessible to the average designer.
In conclusion. The CS5 suite is a somehow an extended version of CS4,but with many bugs solved; with a collection of tools for the public to play with the digital creation, but with little improvement for the professionals.
Adapted from deviant http://news.deviantart.com/article/114507/
Read more...
Use RGB Images for Desktop Printers
5:50 AM
CMYK is the standard colour mode for offset printing. However there are times when you need your images to be RGB even when you print them. This happens usually when you print with your inkjet printer. Because the average user usually doesn’t know the difference between RGB and CMYK and will often print pictures from a camera, most desktop printers have been built with assumption that the images tha are sent to them will be RGB.
There are other situations in the printing field where your images have to be RGB: In certain colour managed environments, even if the final output is offset, and with some digital printers.
There are other situations in the printing field where your images have to be RGB: In certain colour managed environments, even if the final output is offset, and with some digital printers.
Read more...
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