There’s a reason I don’t use Photoshop

This entry was posted on October 10, 2008

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.

7 lovely people have commented

Aisling said:

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!”

Robmarie said:

Bah! That happens to me in almost every image editing program I use, LOL. I always gets on my nerves!

Kaylee said:

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

rosie said:

MINDY has a mac and she loves it. she’s had one for years. you can always ask her ??’s about macs.

love ya

Enzo said:

Someone’s computer skills are failing…

Richard said:

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.