 | View Full Version : What do you use for slicing? w3bdesign 02-05-2005, 07:02 PM What do most people use for slicing and web coding? I've designed a professional looking layout in Photoshop, but I want the easiest and most effective way of implementing it into HTML, without tons of unnecessary HTML. Veign 02-05-2005, 07:06 PM I slice in ImageReady but end up re-coding a cobination of Dreamweaver and emEditor (mostly in this text editor). Its alot easier than you think and the resulting code is also alot cleaner... w3bdesign 02-05-2005, 08:14 PM Why emEditor? I've never heard of it, but is it any good? Acert93 02-05-2005, 11:31 PM I use Fireworks to slice and port code back and forth between the MX Studio 2004. I find it useful and it works (for me at least). The more I use Fireworks the more I like it. Photoshop is great because of the flexibility and advanced features, but Fireworks is a great tool for layout and slicing and has really increased my "concept to completion" time and Fireworks in conjunction with Dreamweaver is great for productivity. The Macromedia suite is expensive but I have found it to be well worth the investment. Veign 02-06-2005, 11:00 AM emEditor: http://www.emeditor.com/ I just started using emEditor years ago and have never really had the need for anything else - I use 3.+ version but they have a 4.0 release which has alot of features... Download it and check it out.... the_pm 02-06-2005, 06:07 PM I do 95% of my strategic cropping in Fireworks and use Homesite as my text editor to code with maximum efficiency. It really doesn't matter what program you use to slice when you're using a method such as this, because you're not relying on the garbage markup visual design programs put out. I prefer Fireworks over Photoshop because I think it has a superior compression engine and its PNG output is spot-on in terms of gamma correction. Photoshop is awful in this regard. Fireworks is wholely useless for print work, but for Web graphics, it reigns supreme in my book. imagenesis 02-06-2005, 06:32 PM Imageready & Photoshop w3bdesign 02-06-2005, 07:04 PM Originally posted by imagenesis Imageready & Photoshop Imageready gives crappy code by default. You should code it by yourself from scratch, if possible. Or better, use CSS and XHTML. PlaneWalker 02-07-2005, 05:03 AM Image Ready for slicing and strategic cropping, but I do not use the HTML it generates (like many here). igeek 02-07-2005, 02:33 PM Image ready by far! but only export the needed slices, never use the html feature as it spits out ugly code! OasisLabs 02-07-2005, 09:45 PM I use image ready for slicing, but I usually ditch the HTML it generates.. usually crap or maybe I dunno how to slice all that well haha |