Pixel perfect?
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- fugged0
If you're just using Illustrator to generate vectors for Photoshop either as smart objects or just to rasterize, you should snap to pixels if you want clean anti-aliasing.
- non0
ps. The idea of creating a website in Illustrator is interesting for the designer, but I would get killed if I gave a .ai file to a programmer.
- thank god an Illustrator file can be converted to a PSD then!monospaced
- Yes, thank God for such amazing miracles.ETM
- non0
Photoshop is not a software built for layouts. I've been transitioning from print to web and am still looking for a software that is as powerful and simple as InDesign but for web design.
Lots of people I know who started their designing "career" as web designers don't understand why they would use something else than Photoshop to create a layout.
Never tried doing a website layout in Illustrator though. Maybe a quick mockup, but the ruler/guide system in Illustrator sucks. No quick access blending styles either.
If only fireworks was quicker, more powerful and less buggy, it could become something closer to InDesign but for web design.
- re: Fireworks ... espcially for Mac OS. It's so fucking slow on a Mac ...Continuity
- I know! WTF are they waiting for?non
- YES!!! i've been having he same problm like non... cant find a design program to do quick layouts like indesign :(k_temp
- if you truly learn fireworks, it is as fast as indesign or illy.reinitialize
- The slowness isn't from the workflow; it's from the fact it is fucking actually slow on a Mac.Continuity
- Yep.
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- ETM0
I always use illustrator to do basic layout of a website. It later goes to PS for the final template. Illy is just far easier to manipulate shapes, text etc in the early stages.
- yeah...I agree, I like clicking on a shape as opposed to selecting layersmonospaced
- use fireworks then.reinitialize
- NoETM
- Clicking on a shape? Use Auto-select in Photoshop. You don't even know the program FFS...CanHasQBN
- mono, turn Auto-Select on. Your life just got 100 times better.CanHasQBN
- I'll look into that. In the end, I don't need to send design files to developers. We have good ones that can go from a comp.monospaced
- I think we're aware of auto select. Illy still makes type much easier.ETM
- fiver0
sup over there? learn some photoshop.....
- session0
Thx guys
- Continuity0
A little part of me weeps at the knowledge Illustrator is used for web design ...
- it's not really that badmonospaced
- it's pretty bad. if i was a coder, i'd be furious if someone handed me a vector file.CanHasQBN
- it's superior, really. i can see every page at once.doesnotexist
- designing in it is one thing, but handing over AI files is another. They create crisp PS files.monospaced
- jtb260
View snap to pixel. They turn on pixel preview. Also helpful to change units to pixel.
- session
Were is pixel perfect in illustrator CS5?