When Dave and I work on the same Web project, I do the HTML and he does the
Photoshop graphics. That used to create a lot of confusion because he would
forget about size limitations and would design to fit his high res monitor.
Telling him that his art had to fit 640x480 didn't help, because he would
forget about all the stuff that goes at the top and sides of a browser
window and his graphics would end up being too big.
Finally, I made a screen capture of a Netscape window on my 14" monitor.
Since Dave prefers to do his original art at a higher resolution than 72
dpi, I doubled the resolution to 144 dpi. It took awhile to get him to
remember to do it, but now he uses that screen capture as the bottom layer
of his Photoshop layers. It has made my life a lot easier.
BTW, both of us lay out our entire pages in Photoshop, including greeking
in text with the Photoshop text tool. After client approval of the layout,
we duplicate the Photoshop layers, flatten, reduce to 72 dpi, unsharp mask
photos, then slice up into smaller pieces. We then open the pieces in
ImageReady, adjust from Mac to PC gamma, optimize as JPEGs or GIFs, and
then reassemble the pieces with HTML. It also helps that Dave, who despises
doing HTML, recently learned the basics of making tables. That gives him a
better grasp of how to layout elements on a page so that I can duplicate
his layout with tables. Sometimes he uses Fireworks or ImageReady to
generate the table layout, and that saves me some time.
Suz
Suzanne Stephens, Dave Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
541-552-1190, 541-1192 http://www.KickassDesign.com/
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