RE: web design -- one Photoshop file with everything ???

Heather

I'm very glad to hear that someone does this too. I find it a very fast way
of getting the mockup of the comps to the client for the signoff on the
visuals.  After this the normal separate development of the image sections
and graphical page areas is dealt with in FW/IS or PS.  The final page is
never one sole image (well unless we are talking Flash). The point is here
that some people, (me included) find for the graphical interface design the
use of Photoshop or whatever as a mockup tool to be fastest way to go from
the hand sketches (which some clients think are cute!) to a screen
representation of the site.

The thing is if you know your HTML well enough while you are putting the
mockup together you should be deciding how you are going to implement the
final product.  As this will have a great baring on your design.

As for the 200+ layers a Final copy (not mockup or scratch file) PS file.
I'm with Lisa, max I use is about 20.  And this will be a very complex
image.  Mind you thats after I delete the just in case this doesn't work
duplicates; hey I don't trust things these days, and time is sometimes very
short.

200 is just unworkable, it'ld take you five minutes to get from top to
bottom of the layers, I hope he named them well too. Maybe he's lurking on
this list ;>

Gary

radharc.

>
> While not responding directly to the original post, I do have a related
> comment.
>
> I use Adobe Image Styler extensively to create my web graphics.   It is
> extremely simple to arrange the graphics I've just created in
> approximately
> the layout I want on the final page.   I find this very helpful
> in deciding
> where I want the elements to go and it is lightning fast compared
> to messing
> with coding a page.  After all, I already have the program open to create
> the graphics in, so why not just move them around the screen into
> how I want
> my page to look?
>
> While Image Styler does allow me to save the layout as html, I
> never do this
> (I haven't ever tried actually, but I would imagine it would make some
> pretty funky tables to get things exactly as I have in my trial layout).
> No, it is only a tool for me to quickly decide if I like how the
> images are
> interacting with each other etc. I might even slip a screen
> capture of some
> text to simulate the text on the page.  When I am done, I place a large
> background box behind all the images and save the whole works as a single
> graphic or occasionally I might carve it up as 2 or 3.
>
> Now as absurd as this sounds....I then throw the huge graphic
> onto a webpage
> and use it to show my client.   I can get feedback from them
> without having
> done a lot of work on the page layout at this point.   I just say
> to them in
> effect:  "this is what your page will look like...do you want me to make
> changes?"   If they do, then I incorporate those changes into the
> page when
> I create it.   I AM sure to let them know the technique I've used so they
> aren't put off if it is slow to load.
>
> As for someone using Photoshop to do as you described...I can only imagine
> he might have done something similar...having one large graphic
> as the whole
> page, with image maps in areas where there needed to be hyperlinks.  VERY
> BAD!!      (Actually I have a hosting-only client that does this often,
> yikes!)
>
> Regards,
>
> Heather
>
> _________________________
>
> Heather Peel
> The Net Now
> http://thenetnow.com
> email:  info(at)thenetnow.com
>
>

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