Tom Brew

I’ve been a Photoshop user for what seems like forever. It’s an incredible program and an essential tool in the web designer’s Start Menu/Dock and with each new revision, Adobe seem to be able to improve Photoshop in some way which you’d never expect, but there’s one thing that’d make a designer’s life much easier.

As a web designer myself, my workflow is probably very similar to many:

• Design in Photoshop

• Build HTML template

• Write CSS

And I’m sure you’ll all agree that setting the styles of fonts, links, borders etc with CSS is so easy it hurts and changes are made throughout the page instantly (provided you’ve done it right that is).

Now, wouldn’t it be great in Photoshop if, alongside your page design, you could tag elements with CSS code such as ‘a’, ‘h1’ etc. Any changes could then be made to the whole design with a few keystrokes as opposed to fiddling around selecting various layers and text boxes...?

And wouldn’t it be just ace if you could then export that style sheet into the likes of Dreamweaver and have your site’s CSS already half completed?!

Just a thought...if you’re listening, Adobe.

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