What can't you do with Photoshop?

[Ear]

The Face Palm is strong with this one.

[David]

The Face Palm is strong with this one.

can you do that in photoshop?

[Joe]

 

On the plus side he didn't go ILLY => JPEG => INDY => PDF.

[Ear]

I once dared a designer to do multiple pages in Photoshop.... got a PSD with 32 layers, each layer was a page. Darn crafty designers just can't be fooled.

[Joe]

And I'll bet they were proud of that.

[Farabomb]

Thanks, now he told his friends and we get the files. 

[Ear]

Yep, proud with a side of smug, when questioning my additional prepress charges.

[Ear]

Thanks, now he told his friends and we get the files. 

Oh I'm pretty sure they actually teach this method at the local community college.

[Farabomb]

Seeing how widespread it is, you may be correct.

[Ear]

And I'm NOT making this up. The silly PSD was the better part of a gig. And the best part, the douchziner owned the Creative Suite, FFS! They fucking owned a copy of InDesign! I cannot imagine the amount of time spent, setting body text, making and combining 32 Photoshop docs into one giant layered booklet, vs setting up an Indy doc with styles, etc... It was some serious dedication to stupidity. I was almost in awe of it. Most are stupid and lazy, but this was some first-rate determined stupid... like mowing the lawn with scissors.

[David]

... like mowing the lawn with scissors.

sounds like my wife when she wants to help with the painting...  she wants to use a tiny .5" brush you would use to paint an oil painting with while she's looking at a 28 foot long wall that's 9 feet high... yeah, use that brush, I'll be over here taking a nap.

[Joe]

... like mowing the lawn with scissors.

sounds like my wife when she wants to help with the painting...  she wants to use a tiny .5" brush you would use to paint an oil painting with while she's looking at a 28 foot long wall that's 9 feet high... yeah, use that brush, I'll be over here taking a nap.

So much better quality that way.

[Ear]

... like mowing the lawn with scissors.

sounds like my wife when she wants to help with the painting...  she wants to use a tiny .5" brush you would use to paint an oil painting with while she's looking at a 28 foot long wall that's 9 feet high... yeah, use that brush, I'll be over here taking a nap.

So much better quality that way.

She's painting in vector.

[Farabomb]

Sounds like a good way to get a quality nap, don't know why you're complaining David.

[Made in Taiwan]

One of our clients also likes to use the one layer - one page method. The only difference is that she's using Illustrator instead of Photoshop, because Illustrator is all she knows (before she was used to Word and Excel, and as long as she doesn't want to send the file to the offset print shop, she will still give us Word files). Recently she took her shit to a new level, now every file contains two artboards, so each layer will be like a reader's spread. It's cool if you receive a file for a 168 page book from her. Luckily there are some plugins for Illustrator to help me do the work... Sh#$ on quality in her case.