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d. Please. One of the more usable ideas that could grow quickly.

• stephenr 9y ago
  I agree that D sounds like the easiest to market if it’s reliable/effective. It also probably has more of an iceberg effect than the others - more unknowns that you can’t see initially. PSDs are a hairy format - even people exporting things isn’t always straightforward, and a machine can’t reason the way a person does. This idea was a pie-in-the-sky goal for a project I worked on ~ 10 years ago, and it was abandoned as too complex to do it reliably, within a reasonable timeframe. Given that psd’s are just layers of raster graphics (but plausibly just a single layer) I doubt even adobe could make the tool as described, and they have the benefit of ~25 years of knowledge about photoshop and PSDs.
• collyw 9y ago
  Out of interest do you know of any decent tutorials on how to do this manually?
  • wolco 9y ago
    I don't but would love to see a good tutorial. The way I approach this is to use the slice tool. 10 years ago I would have cut boxes ajd change the background to the imagine and set width or height to 100%. The important part was picking a repeatable image when scaled 100%
• godot 9y ago
  A similar tool/startup already exists, but for Sketch instead of PSD: https://pagedraw.io/ https://pagedraw.io/ I believe this was posted on HN a while back.