Sharp As Hell!
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- tparsons0
The bigger question is why would you use InDesign and not PShop? Never ran into this problem. It might be a different rendering engine.
- vaxorcist0
photoshop has none, sharp, smooth, crisp, strong for anti-aliasing... illustrator imports into photoshop may have some hidden setting, but I always redo text that's important in photoshop. Also, I find that edges of some boxes in illustrator imports into photoshop have an extra 1 pixel edge that's an intermediate color, like it's trying to anti-alias... not sure if the size ratio has to be exact either....
- pauli0
what do you mean when you say redo, vax?
- sander0
i have no fucking clue. i switched to illustrator years ago and never looked back.
- identity0
can you save as .PNG in InDesign? worked for me in ILL. for the header image of my website...
- pauli0
i dont mean to call you out, Identity,
but your image,
has a very clean Header, but your Subheader has that weird smudge effect thing going on. Maybe Im just crazy?
- Invalid0
Why are you not using Fireworks? Photoshop is also good for web stuff but type rendering and image exporting is far better in Fireworks.
Go ahead and export and image from Photoshop and Fireworks usign exactly the same settings and see the difference. Fireworks = crisper image yet lower file size. One of the presenters at the Adobe conference showed me this and he couldn't explain it.
A lot more web functionality in Fireworks aswell. Things like quick prototyping and HTML text rendering.
Which begs the question, why are you rendering your type as an image? That's if it's body text...
If you're after a specific font for your headers which isn't a web standard, you can do a clever thing where you program it to export a PNG on the fly, yet the text still exists in your HTML, so it's still SEO friendly. Example here: http://sports.yahoo.com/ (view source)
The text here is Gotham, which isn't a web standard but it's rendered quite well (apart from shitty kerning).
- pauli0
Will do, Invalid, thanks for the rundown.
- pascii0
freehand and fireworks for me all the way
- Samush0
just a thought, aligning pixels sometimes helps with the smudging effect you're talking about. i use photoshop but will look at fireworks after reading this thread!
- ********0
No Adobe tool is good for web design,
Photoshop - Shitty layers system, shitty at drawing/editing lots of vectors (e.g a website full of buttons and boxes) quickly
Fireworks - shitty low quality filters, old codebase makes it clunky and slow as fuck, buggy, work always looks lower quality than photoshop, but its so much faster to make web stuff in.
Illustrator - too much micromanagement, too awkward just to draw pixel accurate work
Catalyst - fucking joking right? its a turdThey desperately need something that combines all thats good bits of Fireworks/Illustrator a bit of photoshop and then A LOT of After Effects (filters and precomping are shit hot and fast, would be awesome to style buttons without having a ton of stacked layers)