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Photoshop is a much more powerful design tool than CSS, and given free reign to design at will, designers will often tweak things like font settings to a degree that cannot be recreated on the web.

Is there any way to lock down Photoshop, or perhaps run an equivalent of the Office 2010 "Compatability report" that shows the designer where they have designed something that cannot be rendered on a web page.

Something like the old-school "web-safe" colour palette, but for an overall design.

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  • I wish there was a way of stopping non-coders designing things in Photoshop that are a pain to make in HTML and CSS.
    – mickburkejnr
    Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 11:18
  • As (presumably) a CSS guy you probably have a clearer idea than some of the designers here do of precisely which features you frequently see that can't be translated to CSS. If you could edit a list in to your answer that would help. It sounds like kerning and letter spacing (tracking) is one, it would be interesting and helpful to see what other common problems you see are. Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 12:15
  • (when I said '...your answer', I meant '...your question') Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 13:09
  • any designer worth their weight isn't creating non-reproducible items. :)
    – Scott
    Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 22:21

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No.

While there's definitely some overlap and lots of situations where Photoshop is more powerful than CSS, the reverse is true as well — CSS can have multiple shadows and insets on the one object.

Also, depending on the browsers you wish to target, the abilities will vary, too.

I think your best option will be research and knowledge.

If you do want to go down the automated route, Fireworks CS6's new CSS properties panel may be worth a look.

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Although you can design things in photoshop that can not be created in css directly you can almost do everything in that is in the photoshop file if you use slices aswell as pure css.

Somthing that might help bridge the gap between photoshop and css a little better is css hat i havnt tried it myself but looks like it could be pretty useful.

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