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Post April 19th, 2008, 3:43 am

graphixboy put it very well.

personally I design the whole site in photoshop first, then once approved by the customer, i slice it up and keep the bits i need and code the CSS/html.
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Post April 19th, 2008, 5:47 am

One thing I noticed, the slicing option in image ready or fireworks just makes it more complicated.

I made my page in photoshop, then just started copying the pieces I need, created a table in dreamweaver and just started from the top down. in the end, it look longer, but I knew where i was at all the time.

so in the future i won't go near image ready
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Post April 19th, 2008, 6:01 am

i never bother with the slices tool. i just create create a flattened copy of the final peice and cut the bits i need and make the background of the cut bits a colour that stands out so i can see where i need to make my next selection and cut.
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Post April 19th, 2008, 9:06 am

Am I the only one that uses Image Ready? lol
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Post April 21st, 2008, 7:32 am

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Am I the only one that uses Image Ready? lol

Maybe.. lol

I don't use Imageready either. It seemed like the slices just made everything more complicated than it needed to be.

Instead, I just use the crop tool and/or hide layers along with 'save as' to get the images I need. That way I have a more three dimensional access to the Photoshop document than the slice tool could give me.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 12:31 pm

I never use the automated slices because they suck. But it only takes a few minutes to slice up an entire site. You can also hide/show layers and configure all the separate colour palettes and file formats (not to mention file names!) in Image Ready to prepare for batch output.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 12:42 pm

Maybe I'll try playing around with slices again now that I have CS2. I think one of the things I didn't like before was that I couldn't export slices as .PNGs.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 2:01 pm

What's wrong with JPGs or GIFs? Although I like PNGs as well... I like the transparency support in it... MSIE doesn't agree with me though :x
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Post April 21st, 2008, 2:07 pm

Bogey wrote:
What's wrong with JPGs or GIFs? Although I like PNGs as well... I like the transparency support in it... MSIE doesn't agree with me though :x

It's only IE6 that doesn't handle PNG transparency and there's a pretty easy hack for that. For me it's worth it to have true transparency and better resolution. Every image type has it's time, but I find PNGs to be more versatile in a lot of cases.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 2:15 pm

Alright :) I agree with you James. I actually like PNGs too, but I mostly use JPGs. I don't like GIFs though... don't know why, just don't.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 2:20 pm

Lol I don't like GIFs either for some reason.. maybe it's because I've seen to many of them done with jagged edges or crazy animations.

I do use a lot of JPGs too because you can get smaller file sizes out of them than you can with PNGs.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 2:25 pm

Glad we're on the same page :D
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Post April 21st, 2008, 3:16 pm

I still use GIFs pretty exclusively for text-based images.
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Post April 21st, 2008, 3:26 pm

what are you talking about gif is beautiful! especially for vector based artwork and text. plus it saves down to next to nothing file size wise! :D
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Post April 21st, 2008, 4:01 pm

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what are you talking about gif is beautiful! especially for vector based artwork and text. plus it saves down to next to nothing file size wise! :D

Maybe, I still don't like it though... Don't really know why. I just don't like GIFs :x
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