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Re:Developer's Guide to Images by fry on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:31AM (#5290861)
It's an interesting read, but I'm not sure "developers" is the right word. I can't say anything here was outside the realm of what a good front end developer should know, and if you're not a front end developer then you're probably not concerned with any of this anyways.

A developer should be the one spriting images and minimizing server requests, that's not a designers job. If they don't know how to handle photoshop then they need to learn. I would never hire a dev that could decipher a psd of a fw png.

Still a good set of information for beginners out there.

Re:Developer's Guide to Images by boop0x6 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:05AM (#5290952)
Contrary to what you're saying in the post, PNG-8 can do alpha transparency, just not in Photoshop.
Re:Developer's Guide to Images by tomchuk on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:44PM (#5294779)
The whole seven-step "Preparing to Save" sequence can be dramatically simplified with Edit -> Copy Merged (⇧⌘C).
Re:Developer's Guide to Images by knkella on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:55AM (#5291060)
I was developing a web-to-print web app, and I think I can get some pointers from this article. A good guide indeed!
Re:Developer's Guide to Images by qqqqqqqqqqqqqq on Thursday February 28, 2013 @01:15PM (#5299988)
for developers those things are somehow usefull, but it is not enough... First of all, you would need to describe the file formats with its definitions, like heder file, and other things... Some things, it would be nice to show some things like programs, classes for C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic and so on..
Re:Developer's Guide to Images by BaconJuice on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @09:07AM (#5292376)
This was a very informative post. Thank you for sharing. Learned a lot!
Re:Developer's Guide to Images by msacca on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:45PM (#5287515)
Really comprehensive guide here - Thanks for posting
Re:Developer's Guide to Images by csense on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:20AM (#5290978)
If a designer gives a developer like me a file in a proprietary format that I can't read without shelling out big bucks to Adobe, that's their failure as a designer.

If your image editor makes it so hard to export a PNG that you need an online tutorial to tell you how to do it, you should use a better image editor!

Re:Developer's Guide to Images by Nilzor on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:34AM (#5291315)
Is that what you took from this article?