screen design: comp to code between designers and developers made easy

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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


http://sebastien-gabriel.com/designers-guide-to-dpi/home



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Don’t transform text


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Define and use styles



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Use Shape Layers when possible


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Use Smart Objects - linked or embedded


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Name your layers

Use Layer Groups

Not this.This.


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Use Layer Comps - A saved state of your Layers panel


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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

http://photoshopetiquette.com/


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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

http://brackets.io


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Extract for…

Extract for Illustrator - exploration Want this? Take our quick survey

Extract for Ai prototype video

https://adobe.typeform.com/to/qiLZvx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5qEnJSSAQg


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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

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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


http://photoshopetiquette.com


https://blogs.adobe.com/samartha/2013/09/a-closer-look-at-the-photoshop-generator-syntax.html

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