Design to the pixel!
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- PonyBoy0
And then there's the flipside of it all...
... when I'm designing (accurate to the pixel) and I hand it off to the developer who for some reason CAN'T output what is provided w/dead-accuracy...
- PonyBoy0
It is NOT a developer's job to 'guess' the final size of objects for a website... that shit belongs on the pixel for the appropriate output...
... I've already gone back and forth a few times w/comments like 'you know - I didn't envision the logo being that small'... and... 'Let's go ahead and make that nav bigger'...
... no no no... I'm in production mode - that shit should have been figured out up front... ... if you can't design correctly for the appropriate output... YOU ARE LAZY for not learning how...
... it's not the developer's job to guess, Soul.
- SoulFly0
sorry for my ignorance, but isn't it the developer's job to figure out what to do with the template and what's the best size it should be converted to, based on web standards?
Maybe you want us to slice it and do the css as well?- dude... I'm merely complaining that a company that says they 'specialize' in web design hand off files that aren't ready for outputPonyBoy
- do you expect the printer to prepare your work?tOki
- output... and if you want to take on 'guessing' their final size based on print-pieces... you're a fool of a businessmanPonyBoy
- actually it is not the devs job to do that. you are wrong.cannonball1978
- tOki0
I once recieved some creative for some banners from a large agency for a large client.
Anyway, they had created everything in photoshop, and then created a indesign file with layered tiffs.
Each frame was a 300dpi tiff with every frame as a layer in each file. They'd just hidden the layers/frames they didn't need. The result?
7.5gb that had to be delivered on a DVD from 3 blocks away.
I know I know...
- PonyBoy0
GET YOUR FUCKING PITCHFORKS AND JOIN ME, DAMNIT!
- PonyBoy0
*sigh...
... stop w/explanations of 'what to do'... I know what to do... :)... I'm just annoyed as fuck that a 'web studio' hands off files like this.
- SoulFly0
Just uncheck "resample image" and the pixel dimension will stay the same as you convert the file to low-res, under image size.
- cannonball19780
*starts swinging arms in punching motion involuntarily*
They did what?
- kpl0
*hides the iPhone 4
- PonyBoy
How hard is this concept??
I realize you're from the world of 'print'... ... but if you're going to turn in PSD's and expect a nice clean cut site... ... design @ 72dpi or at least take your 300dpi pile of shit and convert TO THE PIXEL so I don't have to guess what size you really want your graphics to be when i go to cut them... ...if it was 2002 or earlier... I might forgive you...
*shortened breathes into a paperbag