Clean your PSD's
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- PonyBoy
Lazy bastard!
:)
You overbooked your time... that's your problem... 'layer 125 copy copy (39)' is not cutting it for me... ... I feel sick...
- i_monk0
My PSD's what? Bumhole?
- Raybandana0
just put it in a labeled folder. and use auto select.
- chrisRG0
what was that website that has lots of best photoshop practices?
- SteveZissou0
Sorry, no can do....might need that alt version of layer 49b(mod1)[revised] at a later date...
- mightyj0
The photoshop etiquette manifesto:
- CyBrainX0
You could tattoo that on most peoples' faces and they'd still shit all over a PSD and still give it to you to work on. No respect. They live and wallow in their own rasterized filth.
Slobs, learn this.
Smart Objects
Vector shapes
NAME YOUR LAYERSor you're fired.
- fyoucher10
Arrrrgh, you'd be surprised at some of the ones I get, especially the folks who don't use layer comps. I just love getting a 200mb PSD with basically the same screen's assets duplicated into another folder, when all is needed is just a simple copy change to that screen.
- registe0
- Die!!!!!fyoucher1
- :Dregiste
- haha!PonyBoy
- that's hotmonospaced
- GloriousSteveZissou
- I've actually gone through shit like that and named them all.CyBrainX
- mtgentry0
I find it difficult to design and keep my layers organized at the same time. It's like two different parts of my brain are fighting one another. Anyone else feel like that?
- Used to, just train your organisy brain to do it's shit in the background, eventually you don't think about naming as you go..mikotondria3
- totally.. when the creative flow goes the last thing I think about is grouping and naming layersBoz
- Same with me!armin
- Don't you notice later that you get screwed over by the mess you've made. Without right clicking, how do you find a layer?CyBrainX
- jon_d0
I mean, seriously.
Photoshop does a good job of numbering them already.
- Boz0
Kevin.. are you working on my PSD? Now I feel bad :)
- monkeyshine0
...that's what right click is for!
I kid, I kid! I used to be a little insensitive about this issue until I had to pick up another designers project and she had so many layers that even right click was confused.
- PonyBoy0
lol... yes, Boz...this is actually a thread in honor of your damned PSDs... (not kidding) :)
... the 'Lazy bastard' comment didn't give it away?
btw - I sent the PSDs back to you... I don't have the time to clean them - sara will be hitting you up.
:D :D
- :) Well they insisted I give them the file immediately. This PSD was never meant to be a deliverable. At least not yet.Boz
- jtb260
Ok so who does this as they go along and who goes back in and cleans up afterwards. Show of hands.
Aftwerwards
- animatedgif0
or just use Fireworks where you don't have to babysit your files to make them usable
- does Smart Objects/Vector shapes tooanimatedgif
- The only person babysitting your files is the next victim you push them onto.CyBrainX
- vaxorcist0
Seriously... the messed up PSD's I used to get when I was a developer at one gig made me laugh... but somehow the designer was NEVER blamed when it took extra long for the rest of us to finish our part... office politics can suck sometimes.... and of course, the suits banned fireworks, which can make short work of shit like this sometimes....
- crazy banning Fireworks, it can be 100s of times faster. Watching people make buttons with the marquee tool is a jokeanimatedgif
- the suits thought we'd be "more effecient" as an "all adobe" shop.... synergy, buzzword-o-rama,etc...vaxorcist
- isn't fireworks adobe???alicetheblue