I would love to finetune the process a bit further by replacing my 14"
monitor template with ones made on a 14" PC monitor, in both IE and NN with
the default sets of buttons and options. Would anybody care to help me out?
I'll also be happy to share Mac templates with anyone who's curious to see
the difference.
>>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.
Franko wrote:
>Another one of those 'why didn't I think of that?' ideas. Thanks, Suz.
You're welcome!
>
>>
>>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.
>
>Most so-called interactive agencies work this way now. Their creatives only
>use photoshop for layout, and then they have 'developers' who code the html
>and javascript.
I would think this would be very hard on the coders. Dave and I have
roughly equivalent skill sets, though he's better at what I call "pure"
design (logos, icons, illustrating abstract concepts, etc.) than I am. We
both are skilled at optimizing images, which takes some practice. Even
though he hates doing it, he *can* do some HTML and has a basic
understanding of how things go together, but even then sometimes his
expectations exceed my capabilities. Sometimes I have to explain stuff
like, "the only options you have for vertical placement in a table cell are
are top, bottom or middle. Nowhere else." Imagine trying to work with a
designer who had no idea what a table cell is? Yikes!!! Spare me.
Suz
Suzanne Stephens, Dave Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
541-552-1190, 541-1192 http://www.KickassDesign.com/
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