Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 14 Nov 2006, at 07:13:48, Paul Novitski wrote:
I'm leaning toward the opinion that Photoshop is not a good tool in
web design ... Fonts are anti-aliased
At one design studio where I worked I went round to all the designers
showing them how to turn off Photoshop's font anti-aliasing. They
complained that it didn't look as good; I pointed out that that's what
it would look like in the browser (at least on Windows without
ClearType, which is still pretty much the default), so if they expected
me to implement their designs, the original designs had to look as bad
as they would in a browser.
Do most people have ClearType turned off, though?
My team has two designers - my colleague uses Illustrator simply because
it's extremely convenient in its system of layers and general
object-based attitude. I use PhotoShop for the simple reason that it is
pixel-based and as such everything _except_ text can be made to appear
identical to my sketches. With vector programs you're dealing with a
conceptual world that will have to be completely re-defined for the
purposes of appearance.
I would say that unless you're using it as a photo editor, PhotoShop is
expressly for non-print design.
The text problem is immense for any question of typography - you can
have your beautiful type design on any application fall apart completely
because the colour (typographic sense) ends up lighter - at which point
you have to compensate by modifying line-feed, size and colour and
generally all your reference from the design suite end up useless. I am
infuriated that there is this stupid distinction of none; crisp; smooth
and strong. There is a huge gap between 'none' and 'crisp' (crisp
generally being very heavily anti-aliased) - why can't we have a slider?
_And_ turning anti-aliasing off still leaves PhotoShop with its
relatively intelligent kerning systems. To be honest, IE (or even bloody
Word until the latest edition) without clear-type is absolutely
unbearable with smaller font sizes. If you live and design for that
world, expect spaces in the middle of words, characters with no division
between them, and all manner of horrors. You may as well ignore
typographical issues. How ironic that Arial, supposedly designed for
reading off screens, renders worst of all.
Regards,
Barney
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