PSD's to Web designer? 1313 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 3 months ago | Thread started: Mar 18, 12, 8:47 p.m.

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• newuser

  I designed a website and the programmer wants the psd's.

  Do I just send him the files?

  Is he expecting and notes or anything?

  Mar 18, 12, 8:47 p.m. – Permalink

• VectorMasked

  clean up the files, make sure all layers or folders have names, send text document with notes (rollovers, interactivity, external links, etc...) and after that give him a call to go over what you wrote and what could not be explained on that text doc.

  

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  Dog-earMar 18, 12, 8:52 p.m. – Permalink

• akrok

  when you done. zip it and >> https://www.wetransfer.com/

  

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  Dog-earMar 18, 12, 8:55 p.m. – Permalink

• newuser

  Thanks!

  

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  Dog-earMar 18, 12, 9:24 p.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  yeah definitely clean it up...nothing worse than a scattered psd file.

  • a FLATTEN psd is worser.– akrok1/2

    worser?– i_was2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 18, 12, 9:28 p.m. – Permalink

• Continuity

  Layer comps will help the developer a lot, too.

  • IF they use those. some don't even know what they are.– doesnotexist1/4

    If a dev knows not what they are, it's best not to know said dev...– NONEIS2/4

    devs ♥ Layer comps– Aa773/4

    we don't use them with our dev, definitely surprises me.– doesnotexist4/4

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 3:03 a.m. – Permalink

• animatedgif

  "Is he expecting and notes or anything?"

  Well it's not going to hurt is it... stop being lazy.

  • lol - so true– fadein11

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 3:05 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  but if you do, spell check :)

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 6:12 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  stuff like making sure all effects are in PS and not things like smart objects made in illy having effects from illy... all rgb... label shit. put things in layers.

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 7:20 a.m. – Permalink

• NONEIS

  Layer comps, and a PHONE CALL - no substitution for walking them through the design...

  • agree! its too easy to email it and think it will be ok, when a quick chat really makes things easier.– Hombre_Lobo

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 8:44 a.m. – Permalink

• aanderton

  Don't forget to hand over font files with it if you've used anything the 'web designer' may not have.

  • <<<<<<<<<<<– dbloc

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 9:19 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  rasterize those smart objects

  • Doesn't this defeat the point of them being smart?– animatedgif1/5

    yes, but you're handing them off to production not continuing to work on them.– doesnotexist2/5

    production meaning development/program... ah, interesting...– k_temp3/5

    Not helpful if they need to extract something in a smart object stack.
    Just leave em– animatedgif4/5

    to each his own, our devs like them rasterized.– doesnotexist5/5

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 9:22 a.m. – Permalink

• wagshaft

  http://photoshopetiquette.com/

  • this.– notverycontrary

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 12, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink

• vaxorcist

  yes... naming of layers is good, I've received some "copy of layer x" files in the past..

  do this:
  

  

  not this:
  

  

  

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  Dog-earMar 20, 12, 6:01 a.m. – Permalink