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Developer's Guide to Images
- BaconJuice 14y agoThis was a very informative post. Thank you for sharing. Learned a lot!
- tomchuk 14y agoThe whole seven-step "Preparing to Save" sequence can be dramatically simplified with Edit -> Copy Merged (⇧⌘C).
- qqqqqqqqqqqqqq 14y agofor developers those things are somehow usefull, but it is not enough... First of all, you would need to describe the file formats with its definitions, like heder file, and other things... Some things, it would be nice to show some things like programs, classes for C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic and so on..
- msacca 14y agoReally comprehensive guide here - Thanks for posting
- fry 14y agoIt's an interesting read, but I'm not sure "developers" is the right word. I can't say anything here was outside the realm of what a good front end developer should know, and if you're not a front end developer then you're probably not concerned with any of this anyways. A developer should be the one spriting images and minimizing server requests, that's not a designers job. If they don't know how to handle photoshop then they need to learn. I would never hire a dev that could decipher a psd of a fw png. Still a good set of information for beginners out there.
- boop0x6 14y agoContrary to what you're saying in the post, PNG-8 can do alpha transparency, just not in Photoshop.
- csense 14y agoIf a designer gives a developer like me a file in a proprietary format that I can't read without shelling out big bucks to Adobe, that's their failure as a designer. If your image editor makes it so hard to export a PNG that you need an online tutorial to tell you how to do it, you should use a better image editor!
- Nilzor 14y agoIs that what you took from this article?
- knkella 14y agoI was developing a web-to-print web app, and I think I can get some pointers from this article. A good guide indeed!