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There’s a reason I don’t use Photoshop » October 10th, 2008 · See comments
Today I lost my virginity to web development in a Mac environment. It went fairly well (once I’d managed how to make TextEdit work in plain text. The only problem I had was with Photoshop.
It started out as a bizarre problem. My images were showing in Safari, but not in Firefox. I checked my markup, double checked it, and triple checked it. I even made sure the images were in the right place. I thought then maybe that it was a browser bug – after all, if it were a problem with the images / markup, Safari wouldn’t display the images either.
After checking in IE6 / XP, IE7 and FF / Vista, the images still weren’t showing up. This was definitely bizarre. Normally browser bugs happen in one browser / OS combination, and all these non-showing of images definitely disproved that point.
After much puzzling with a colleague about what the problem could be (if it wasn’t the images, and it wasn’t the markup), my colleague checked the images again.
Turns out they were saved as image-name.jpg.psd.
Two things learned then. 1) Safari / Mac will display .psd files. 2) SAVE IMAGES PROPERLY.
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That reminds me of the first time I was expected to create a mini-movie on a Mac. Only, I was teaching sixth grade children how to use the program. So, it was like “Umm, so then you… well, in Windows you would… let’s see if I can translate this to Mac and… OMG! IT WORKED!”
Bah! That happens to me in almost every image editing program I use, LOL. I always gets on my nerves!
I always feel handicapped every time I use a Mac, because I am so accustomed to Windows. I kind of dislike Macs for that reason
MINDY has a mac and she loves it. she’s had one for years. you can always ask her ??’s about macs.
love ya
Someone’s computer skills are failing…
Nice one! Always good to hear of more people using Macs. I hate and love Photoshop in equal measure, personally.
The Mac version I have (CS3) isn’t the best I admit, and I know of people (Mac users) who will sit down and use the Windows version whenever they need image editing. Personally I couldn’t do that, but I understand why people might want to.
Roll on CS4 I say… can only be an improvement on the Mac, surely.
For some reason, some Mac programs like to save files without their extension. I always have to make sure they’re typed in.