A Question
This is for the designers in the audience. When you are designing concepts for websites (in photoshop or illustrator), how do you show the text? Do you just use the default anti-aliasing that is used by Photoshop, or do you try to represent the text as close as possible to how it will show up in the browser (anti-aliased)?
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November 18th, 2004
I use a mac, so the text in photoshop and illy are not that far away than what they really look like.
So I just use Crisp (Character Pallette Setting).
For Winders, it usually looks just as good, just not as easy to read…(not to start an argument about that or anything)…
November 18th, 2004
screen shot of the actual broswer text. It works well and give an accurate representation. Takes no time at all to do, only problem is you may have to write a slight style so you don’t have times, you know standard really.
November 18th, 2004
As close as possible. It could be a waste of time trying to avoid doing it.
November 19th, 2004
I just leave it however Photoshop defaults it. Then again, I rarely have to get PS layouts approved by somebody else.
November 19th, 2004
I make it as close to the browser as possible.
November 19th, 2004
Eh, I tend to bounce around to crips and strong in the photoshop settings — I never give illustrator comps, must be habit now (though I use them both, I build in photoshop). But I never gauge for browser best — I explain to them it’s a mockup, and that’s what mockups are for — the textual representation is only to limit the amount of development time I would be doing. So if you’re doing comps, they shouldn’t be that accurate anyhow — when they’ve approved the design path, then you start building an actual web based representation.
And, I am also on a mac, so my text is nice and clear:)