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 Joyce Evans tests Media Lab's newPhotoWebber Using Photoshop to design a Web page mock up is just the beginning of the process, and I think, the fun part. But the mechanics of slicing, dicing, and preparing each design element is where the hard work begins. |
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If you have a full production team, you usually pass your design on to a programmer
and cross your fingers, hoping the programmer gets everything positioned just right.
But let's face it. Photoshop was never meant to design Web pages. And often designs
get altered drastically because of complex positioning problems. Wouldn't it be great
if we could just use our Photoshop files and be done with it? Imagine the hours we'd
save. Media Lab saw this need and produced a program called PhotoWebber. What I discovered was nothing short of amazing... |
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I couldn't believe PhotoWebber could possibly be as easy as the Media
Lab's press release made it sound, so I decided to put it though the paces. Testing
with a 12MB, 16 Layer, PSD Photoshop file intended for print with plenty of graphics,
the program froze. Okay, I know that's a bit large for a Web page, so I changed the
print resolution of 300dpi to 72dpi and deleted the text and the large background
image. This brought the file to under 2MB, and it worked much better. (By the way,
my test machine was an AMD Athlon 500mhz with 128MB of RAM running Windows 2000.)
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