Marc Edwards

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@marcedwards on Twitter. Director and Lead Designer at Bjango. Host of the Iterate podcast with @reneritchie and @sethclifford. Author of the Bjango articles. Occasional writer for Smashing Magazine.

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Jun 3	comment	Is there a font face in which all glyphs are identical? Just added another good option :)
Jun 3	comment	Can I stop Photoshop from asking for interlaced option when saving a PNG format? Why are you against Save for Web? The files are much smaller and the interlaced option can be saved.
Jun 2	comment	Is there a font face in which all glyphs are identical? @DA01 I don't think that's possible. It only works in older versions of IE.
May 31	comment	Having Difficulties With The Pen Tool In Photoshop CS6 I'm not aware of a better technique. Using Step Backwards instead of Undo does the same thing. Hopefully the info helped :)
May 29	comment	advice on workflow and people needed for an app Which platform(s) are the books for? If the answer is iOS, you should consider using iBooks Author. Great results, and you'll get them faster and cheaper.
May 26	comment	What browser width should I use to design a website? Fair call. Edited to reflect that.
May 23	comment	Photoshop Pen Tool: draw lines in a vector mask There's a dropdown menu in the options bar that selects if each path is set to combine, subtract, intersect or exclude. For a donut, you'd want the bigger circle set to combine and the smaller circle set to subtract.
May 23	comment	Optimizing a screenshot for adding in a document and printing "I'm pretty sure Apple at least do not use DPI in this sense" — They do in all their dev docs for iOS, when talking about images. As do Google and Microsoft. Apple use PPI in their display specs for hardware though. My take on it: bjango.com/articles/ppiisatag
May 23	comment	Photoshop Pen Tool: draw lines in a vector mask "the ability to put multiple objects on a single layer" — Hasn't that always been the case?
May 23	comment	Establishing the real copyright owner of a font Just added more detail.
May 23	comment	Establishing the real copyright owner of a font That's up to the deal between the foundry and the client. Bell Gothic is owned by Linotype, right?
May 22	comment	Make tiles from embeded image in svg document I'm not sure I understand the question. Why couldn't it just be one (or many) PNG images?
May 22	comment	Optimizing a screenshot for adding in a document and printing "What's up with the vector screenshots" — No idea. The only reference I can find to vector screenshots is in the comments here?
May 22	comment	Optimizing a screenshot for adding in a document and printing Does the distinction matter? Apple, Google, Microsoft and others are all using DPI when referring to image resolution (rather than printing resolution). I don't mind editing to say PPI, but I'm not sure it makes the answer any clearer.
May 22	comment	Optimizing a screenshot for adding in a document and printing "opening it in a pixel editing application and resizing there being certain to increase resolution as you decrease dimensions" — worth noting that if you did that, you'd want to just change the DPI/size and not resample the image (doing so would reduce quality).
May 22	comment	Photoshop - Copying Image Are you doing web design / app design work? Or photo editing? It matters, because they both require different Photoshop RGB colour management setups.
May 21	comment	When you export from Adobe Illustrator cs4, is it done as png-24? Both Photoshop and Fireworks are better choices, in terms of rendering quality. If you duplicate the icon, scale to the correct final size and build a slice for it, you'll be able to export for mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi all at once (or any other scale you might need). It'd also let you tweak the icon for each size, which is important if you want things to look sharp.
May 20	comment	Best workflow for icon design: Start big, or start small? Seems like a lot of replication, because some detailed icons are constructed with tens or hundreds of layers. I think the extra detail is typically useful for sizes above about 64x64. (PS: I voted up because it's a great reply that's full of good info, but didn't tick, because I don't think it's the way I want to go.)
May 20	comment	Best workflow for icon design: Start big, or start small? "A new image gets created for each size level" — Seems like a lot of replication for work you've already done. Obviously many tweaks will be needed, but I'm surprised you start over.
May 18	comment	Script to color parts of image based on input data Great suggestion. Alternatively, if you can get a vector map, using SVG to colour may be good as well. SVG is pretty easy to edit programatically.