November 2010
Beginner
454 pages
15h 15m
English
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Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design
by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, Larry Riemann
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CHAPTER 3 PLANNING FOR BRANDING
When working with text for design comps in Photoshop, a common “gotcha”
is anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing is a mechanism that reduces distortion of text and
images at lower resolutions. While this is generally helpful for creating pleasing
designs, it can create unrealistic expectations regarding how your fi nal text will
look in a browser. Because Internet Explorer doesn’t anti-alias the same way as
Photoshop, sometimes text in Photoshop will seem smoother than the same text
in Internet Explorer. It’s important to try a few different anti-aliasing settings
in Photoshop and try to match how text normally looks in a browser. This usu-
ally means that very small text may need to have its anti-aliasing set to “None.”
Figure 3-11 shows the anti-aliasing menu for text in Photoshop CS4.
Making the Design Comp Realistic
With all the amazing things you can do in Expression Design and
Photoshop, it’s tempting to go crazy creating the world’s most uniquely
branded website. However, it’s important to remember that the design
comp is meant to imitate what can actually be created in a SharePoint
2010 website. Ultimately, learning whether something is easily creatable in
SharePoint will take some time to get the hang of. One good method for
learning this is to look at the functionality provided in the out-of-the-box
master pages, both
v4.master and nightandday.master ...
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