Indesign → Photoshop?
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- voiceof0
Damnit, Now I need to reinstall fireworks and tryit out again. Last time I even looked at FW it's only real purpose was to better optimize images.
- awebdeveloper0
With the web about to donkey punch itself with more SVG sweetness I think we're going to be seeing a lot more Illustrator files. Not that FW or PS doesn't support the paths, it'll be easier for the developer to export SVG's from AI rather than trying to do it from other programs (natively).
- FW does support vectors, you can even copy and paste from illustratoranimatedgif
- I meant exporting as SVG from Fireworksawebdeveloper
- awebdeveloper0
With the web about to donkey punch itself with more SVG sweetness I think we're going to be seeing a lot more Illustrator files. Not that FW or PS doesn't support the paths, it'll be easier for the developer to export SVG's from AI rather than trying to do it from other programs (natively).
- 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?
- RIZ0
This is quite an interesting argument...
I work for a large branding agency, we design plenty of high end websites. I quite often design the front-end look and feel of the site in Illustrator OR Indesign. This makes sense, because as a designer, I use these programmes to create the best graphic layouts - be it for print or for online. What half decent graphic designer would ever use fucking Photoshop for a nice page layout?
I then hand those files over to the studio team - btw they are a PRINT studio team. They convert them to photoshop, make sure the pixels are all lined up properly etc. And boom, you have a great looking site - designed in Indesign or Illustrator. The photoshop part is merely part of the production process, and only there to make sure that it can be developed properly - it has nothing to do with the creative part of the process.
I see no problem with this method, can't understand why everyone is kicking up a stink about designing websites in Illustrator or Indesign...
- agreed 100%monospaced
- yup yup yes in the same boatdoesnotexist
- nice work, RIZ.doesnotexist
- wait, is that your work? blog?doesnotexist
- @doesnotexist thanks for the comment, your work is lovely by the way : )RIZ
- and yep, that's the agency I work for...RIZ
- This sounds like the most retarded process everanimatedgif
- I mean if the client makes a change do you do it in the ID docs then pass it off to the PS team again?animatedgif
- Riz, you are a moron. I am an AD at a large agency too.Frosty_spl
- doesnotexist0
use whatever gets the job done.
then remember developers like PSDs.
- monNom0
Adobe CS5 Web Premium does not include inDesign.
http://www.adobe.com/products/cr…case closed.
=P
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
The developers I work with don't give a damn. They usually take the design and make it much tighter and cleaner anyway, regardless if they receive PSD, InDesign or Illustrator files. I sometimes think they just print them out and use them as visual reference. It's awesome.
- Ambushstudio0
We would give our developer AI fies, sometimes PSD sliced files, he has it down, he likes AI, is he crazy?
- qTime0
To me it feels like webpages were first build by non designers so they used Photoshop. Now we are finding out that its totally unsuited to designing webistes.
- If you are just designing templates PS is fine. If you are being asked to show the whole website (ie all content pages) it may get trickierfadein11
- gets trickierfadein11
- Exactly! I love how I can set type styles in indesign.qTime
- Spot on qTimeanimatedgif
- Fireworks allows you to set styles. It doesnt allow you to edit them, but they work well otherwiseJosev
- OSFA0
PLEASE, stop using InDesign for web design. Please?
- animatedgif0
- Hmm, I still don't find this has the functionality of inDesignqTime
- qTime0
Photoshop is not fit for purpose!
Someone really needs to create a better program. You can't even make custom grids that are useful in PhotoShop without a plug in.
- awebdeveloper0
Don't design for web in InDesign, Don't design for web in illustrator.
It will end badly and we will ignore your pixel measurements and just round to pixel multiples of 5 and make it in MS word fr you.
- fadein110
web design in InDesign - just don't get it
- animatedgif0
Use Fireworks FFS, InDesign wasn't designed for this.