Comments on: Feedback, please: HTML5 layers in Photoshop?

By: Carl Antone

Carl Antone — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:22:06 +0000

No. Do not add HTML anything to Photoshop.

Photoshop is a pixel design tool. Illustrator is a vector design tool.

Fireworks and Dreamweaver are HTML design tools. Put the HTML support in the HTML tools.

[I'm not sure you got my point: the purpose of the HTML would be to create pixels, just as any number of other tools/technologies create pixels inside Photoshop. Putting live PDF data into Photoshop (as a Smart Object) doesn't make it a different kind of tool; rather, it just makes it a more flexible image creator. The same would be true with embedded HTML. --J.]

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:03:00 +0000

I’m also in the camp of “this is a great idea but an app other than Ps is probably a more logical place to do it”. I’d be happy if it turned up in any adobe application but I think Ps is a bit of a behemoth as it is and Fireworks would make more sense. In terms of the fundamental workings, the app being used to edit an object or attribute and not to edit code, I think that is key.

By: river

river — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:34:45 +0000

i love this idea. but count me with those who have misgivings about it showing up in ps. feature-bloat feels a bit out of control as it is. i guess fw makes sense for it, but from everything i read and see, fw is somewhat neglected and behind the times. personally, i would love to see a new application, maybe start with the basic image editing engine of ps (no idea if such a thing is possible) but focus it tightly on web/screen-related features. make this kind of live html layer thing really central to the concept, but start with some different assumptions than photoshop, like multi-page documents and dynamic canvas sizes. anyway, i love the thinking, and this would make much of my work so much easier. i just kind of hate to see adobe miss more opportunities to do something really great and paradigm-shifting, rather than tack more stuff onto products that are kind of top heavy as is. sometimes a fresh start is just what’s needed.

thanks for opening this up to input, btw.

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:41:20 +0000

I’m absolutely a fan of this idea. (I trust you’d get it integrated into whichever application or app group it most clearly works with.)

I’ve been looking for this kind of bigger-thinking functionality in an Adobe visual design tool for almost a decade now. I’m not asking Adobe to write code for me, and it sounds like you appreciate that “line in the sand” point-of-pride and workflow constraint. Web designers are not asking Adobe for “added features” so much as a re-evaluation of HOW we work and better ways for our tools to get us there faster. This would be a nice step toward that process change.

I would love Fireworks to get the kind of love that Photoshop receives, unfortunately that hasn’t been the case—so I design in PS 99.9% of the time. However, this is the kind of bigger-thinking functionality that SHOULD be integrated across an entire Creative Suite, not a single application.

By: Flow

Flow — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:01:55 +0000

Okay.. this idea would definetivley change the real world of webdesigning. Do it, please.

By: Joshua Pekera

Joshua Pekera — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:31:45 +0000

Genius!
FYI check out http://www.nojobmonsterhere.com after August 15th. An entirely CSS3 rendered site. Only images to be displayed will be in the event of IE browser

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:10:40 +0000

How about SiteGrinder? I know it's a plugin - but it does what you are talking about in here... [No, it's very different, actually (at least from what I'm suggesting): it's generating code, and I don't really want to have PS get into that business. --J.]

By: Dei-biz

Dei-biz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:38:24 +0000

Being able to create a single HTML layer woud be enough to justify a new purchase of photoshop. I don’t know if it’s possible, but there would be wonderful to be able to create a new layer and that it’d display a webkit view to be able to trace over it.

By: Richard Earney

Richard Earney — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:16:01 +0000

John these recent posts may be of interest, and seem pertinent to creating a killer web/app design tool
http://bit.ly/9125hX
http://bit.ly/9DCQpm

By: John Nack

John Nack — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:27:02 +0000

I agree with the second part.

By: Jeff Faria

Jeff Faria — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:14:36 +0000

I agree with Mordy – this sounds very much like an Illustrator thing, not a Photoshop thing. (I think it would be a great addition to Illustrator.)

By: derp

derp — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:43:02 +0000

heads up – this is a terrible idea

[What a thoughtful, engaging analysis from an anonymous poster. --J.]

and if you use dreamweaver your opinion is null & void

By: Micha

Micha — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:35:18 +0000

Um yeah, can I change the order of layer styles in Photoshop CS5? Like, add a colour overlay and then put a gradient on top of that? No? Nevermind.

HTML5 layers in Photoshop, sure, why not. It should be all things to all people, that’s why it’s called Photoshop. I’d also like to edit my mp3s in the channels palette, please.

P.S. Fireworks

By: Sébastien Brothier

Sébastien Brothier — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:20:59 +0000

To give the ability to use paragraphs style or caracters styles using css attributes will be a great thing

By: John Nack

John Nack — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:23:44 +0000

ID needs to enable rich tablet publishing regardless of format. As for PSD and DW, whether you translate out of PS or into DW, it’s still translation/code generation. –J.