When You Design

[seonewbee]

When you design graphic elements, do you design at the finished sixe or design larger anad make final size? Say for icons or buttons would you design at say 128x128 and then resize to 16x16?

[South]

I design at the actual size and just increase the view size for details.

[Ricoool]

depends on the site, % of someting like images is a "bitch" because of the bandwith, most internet users might use at least 1024x768 today, but most home users are still on a dial-up, so you will have a slow load time if you design to the maximum size and scale with %, and images dont look so good if you scale it.

but if it was easy, we wouldent make money :wink:

[Jazzee]

I think he means design it bigger then resize in photoshop.

[Liam Caulfield]

I always design at 100%, I cant see much point in resizing stuff down to be honest. I like to see what Im getting as I make it, you lose alot when you resize. That button that looks lovely at 128 might be unreadable at 16 so you wasted some time making it.

[DaveyBoy]

if its logos, i always make at 300dpi (well usually) just in case it's needed for any other purposes, but with web graphics, i'll just make them the size I need them.

[seonewbee]

Thanks for your input. I designed my little arrow for my site at 16x16 and it was so hard seeing what I was doing. I just thought that might be better doing thing like that at a much larger size. My logo I did at actual size. My resolution is 1024.

[Jazzee]

For something as small as 16x16, I might design it a little bigger and resize. It is very hard to work with something so small.

[Fusion]

If you make your logos in AI, DB then you don't need to worry about DPI. Aight!

[Fusion]

You mean the canvas size?

Well make it a nice reasonable size draw what you need; using the zoom tool if you want -- then just trim the canvas based on your needs, i.e. trim to transparent pixels etc.

[Fusion]

I'd never make a canvas so small unless i wanted to make a pattern.