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Screen Design: Comp to Code between Designers and Developers Made EasyBruce Bowman | @brucebowman | Sr. Product Manager, Extract services
Winsha Chen | @winshapedia | Sr. Computer Scientist, Groovy new projects
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What’s This Session All About?
Best practices for Photoshop screen designers
Going from design comp to code - bringing the design to life
Demos of new products and workflows
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ProductionExport Assets
Style Guides
Redlines
Specs DevelopmentDesign
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Design
Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Sketch, or something
else?
In the browser, in a CMS like WordPress?
Just start coding?
The most common format for design comps…
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Redline specs?
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Best Practices for Photoshop Designers
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Set Units to Pixels in Ps - Photoshop > Preferences > Units & Rulers
Best Practices - some practical tips
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Design at a higher resolution
Best Practices - some practical tips
http://sebastien-gabriel.com/designers-guide-to-dpi/home
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Best Practices - some practical tips
Don’t transform text
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Define and use styles
Best Practices - some practical tips
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Best Practices - some practical tips
Use Shape Layers when possible
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Best Practices - some practical tips
Use Smart Objects - linked or embedded
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Best Practices - some practical tips
Name your layers
Use Layer Groups
Not this.This.
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Best Practices - some practical tips
Use Layer Comps - A saved state of your Layers panel
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Best Practices - some practical tips
Minimize use of Layer Styles,
Blend Modes and Adjustment
layers
Copy Layers and Flatten before
handoff
Discuss with your developer for
their preference
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Best Practices - more tips from Dan Rose
Use a Grid
Use Webfonts
Use Separate Text Boxes
Use Whole Pixel Values
Stay Non-Destructive
Store Assets Relative to the PSD
http://photoshopetiquette.com/
Photoshop tips, tricks and resources, 140 characters at a time: follow @psetiquette and @dblizzy
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Beyond Best Practices - How Adobe Can Help You
Introducing Extract Photoshop - Extract Assets
Creative Cloud - Extract for CC Assets
Dreamweaver - Extract for Dw
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Demos
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Photoshop CC
Extract Assets Easily define and package optimized assets for the web
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Creative Cloud
Extract for CC Assets
Sharing, Commenting, Versioning, and Notifications
Unlock, extract, and share vital design information from
PSDs - directly in your browser
http://assets.adobe.com
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Dreamweaver CC
Extract for Dw Build mobile and desktop sites directly from a PSD, with
code hinting and more
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Brackets
Extract for Brackets - Coming Soon Build mobile and desktop sites directly from a PSD, with
code hinting and more
http://brackets.io
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Extract for…
Extract for Illustrator - exploration Want this? Take our quick survey
Extract for Ai prototype video
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Wrapping Up
Take care with your files
Be disciplined, and use the best practices we discussed
Designers and Developers should sit together when possible
Over-communicate using Comments, and noting changes
Use workflows that help you work smarter and more efficiently
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Q&A Time
Thank you for attending our session!
@brucebowman
@winshapedia
@adobewebcc
#ccextract
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Links to Explore
CC Extract: http://assets.adobe.com
Photoshop Etiquette: http://photoshopetiquette.com
Designer's Guide to DPI: http://sebastien-gabriel.com/designers-guide-to-dpi/home
Generator Syntax: https://blogs.adobe.com/samartha/2013/09/a-closer-look-at-the-photoshop-
generator-syntax.html
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