Whose job?
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- Beeswax
I'm working on a client's project with a programmer. I sent him all the psd files properly layered & named. Now he's asking for all image elements as separate files in .gif .png etc.
Other programmers that i worked before haven't asked for this.
Whose job is this generally?
- monospaced0
Damn good question.
- set0
Programmers job. He knows how he wants the images cut up. We don't.
- calculator0
Front end developer or if they don't have an eye for detail, the designer.
- +1 most programmers don't do front end developmentspot13
- SunSunSun0
is it cutting up stuff or just exporting already separate elements in different formats?
- SunSunSun0
if cutting up: programmer
- chrisRG0
in almost every agency I worked this was either the Designer job or an Jr Designer.
- instrmntl0
It's a gray area. There are some agencies such as RGA or EVB that have the designer do it, where as others it's the developers job.
- vaxorcist0
Is he more of a back end than front end developer? Is ex-big agency?
- reanimate0
Front end dev, since after all HTML/CSS work isn't programming. If this person works with CSS, they should be comfortable with Photoshop and slicing up images.
- CanHasQBN0
Programmer of course. The programmer needs to determine how big an image needs to be in order to fit the space he is coding for. If I, as the designer, cut an image 100 pixels wide, but it actually needs to be 110 pixels wide in order to fill some gap on the right side, or create padding, how would the designer know?
- animatedgif0
You don't have any idea how they're going to build it. It's their job.
It makes no sense for you to cut it up and make assumptions of how it will be pieced together. Unless they're some incompetent Dreamweaver table slice coder
- dreamweaver table slice coding is ugly but can take 10 minutes(!) and fix shit for demos at the last minute(!)vaxorcist
- set0
Tell him to get fucked
- vaxorcist0
front end coders do want PSD's, with fonts,etc.... they want to slice and dice as CanHasQBN and others have said, it's better that way if they are a front end coder.....
BUT, if you developer is MOSTLY a back-end coder, and has been isolated from the slicing due to previous gigs at agencies where he got everything sliced up on a plate by a junior designer or somebody else, that's a conversation you will need to have...
....otherwise you may end up with some very oddball CSS code...
- also check which version of PS he has, you may just need to "save-as" a previous version,etc...vaxorcist
- Beeswax0
He is actually a back-end guy, tho he's going to handle the front-end for this project as well. I guess he's not experienced so he wanted the files from me.
You guys are right, as an example there are panels with rounded corners and I don't know if he's going to slice it into three files or use as one file.
I wrote him, we'll see. If he thinks he can't handle it I might help him.- just create a single sprite for all the graphics and send him thatspot13
- qTime0
You have to be really careful working with these types.
From my experience they'll just hack it together with no regards to your original design. Then moan when you want an image aligned to the correct place.