![]() This makes it almost a no-brainer to begin your project by converting all your high resolution image resources - avatars, backgrounds, photos and the like - into a SmartObjects, allowing you to resize, rotate, transform and reposition them without fear.Ĭonverting any layer to a SmartObject is as simple as right-clicking it and selecting ‘ Convert to SmartObject‘. However SmartObjects apply each new transformation to the original image state, with no image quality loss. SmartObjects always keep a reference link to their original image state, even after we’ve applied destructive transformations to them.įor instance, in most situations, re-scaling an image multiple times would degrade the image at each iteration. ![]() SmartObjects are nothing new – they’ve existed in Photoshop since 2005 – but they’ve become a central tool in responsive design. Here are some tips to get started with responsive images. They offers a suite of tools – some new, some older – designed to help. How do we generate all these different image assets?Īdobe has put a lot of thought into this problem and it shows in Photoshop CC 2014. Instead I’d like to look at the other part of the problem: the image assets. ![]() Have no fear: these are both excellent solutions, but we’re not going to focus on them today. : Squeezr is heavily inspired by adaptive-images, but favors a client side strategy for determining and reacting to breakpoints. ![]() It’s device-agnostic and mobile-first, although it does usually requires some Apache and PHP setup knowledge. : Matt Wilcox’ solution is a current favorite of many developers.There are already a number of established methods for delivering adaptive image content to devices. By tailoring our images to the limitations of the each device, we can deliver pages faster while saving bandwidth costs – a win for everyone. Tammy’s numbers tell us that sending slow, family-sized images to baby-sized devices isn’t just bad manners - it’s actually costing us customers and money. A 2-second delay during a transaction = 87% shopping cart abandonment rate.44% of shoppers interpret slow performance as ‘something went wrong’.Slow web pages correlate to more than $3b lost sales annually.Last month Tammy Everts published some very sobering figures on the effects of site performance on user behaviour. So, why are we still loading the same ‘family-sized’ images onto all these wildly different devices? But does it really matter? The truth is, in 2014 there are as many motorbikes on ‘our super-highway’ as there are sedans and trucks. ![]() Today, mobile users often make up more than half of our traffic. Our current reality is a very different picture. Photo: Andy Schofield – cc The right assets for the right devicesįive years ago the web was a more predictable place, wasn’t it?Īs web developers, we could reasonably expect web browsers no narrower than 640 pixels, and no wider than 1240 - it was as if our ‘internet super-highway’ was trafficked only with family sedans. ![]()
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