Indesign → Photoshop?
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- qTime0
For me inDesign is much more suited to designing websites that PhotoShit.
You can design multiple pages, set type styles, custom grids.Devs should be more flexible.
A lot could be gained from using indesign.- Fireworks has pretty much ALL the advantages of both apps.animatedgif
- monospaced0
I guess it really depends on the developer and the kind of site being built. Some sites are pure code and all that with only the minimal use of raster graphics, others are all about the pixel effects that can only be made in PS. Some developers like to copy and paste from a PSD, some like to rebuild efficiently, and each job is unique.
- Glitterati_Duane0
Designing the "look" in InDesign makes sense to me. Recreating that look in something else more suited to web I assumed was the natural way to go
- monoboy0
Photoshop for web is a legacy thing. It was the cheapest most readily available tool for the job at a time when dev folks did most of the 'design' as well (3D buttons, animated gifs etc).
So we've all just stuck with it, as most devs aren't willing to try new methods. Because it adds risk and cost. So designers have had to get pretty efficient at using a tool that isn't ideally fit for purpose.
- monNom0
^ If you have production designers redoing things manually in photoshop...didn't you just prove the point that inDesign is no good to hand-off (directly) to devs?
- prophetone0
my usual: export giant pdf, import as high res such and such
- Amicus0
"I made a website, now the programmers need .psd files for some reason"
Well... you may have designed a website, but it's only part of the process... don't consider it made until the programmers have had at it and umpteen million changes have been made by you, the client, the programmers, the clients wife and the clients nephew who owns frontpage.
- I only ever use PSD's anyway, thought that was standard practice?biusness
- prophetone0
can i edit this psd you made me in publisher? i only ask because my nephew has a laptop and software and wants to help out which is great...