19 comments

  • Eren Emre .Eren Emre ., over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )

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  • Moeed MohammadMoeed Mohammad, over 8 years ago

    This is really cool. There's going to be a day not too far from now where exporting assets one by one is going to be archaic and cumbersome. This is leading the way and I can't wait to see how it inspires other changes in the way we do things.

    2 points
  • Arma GetronArma Getron, over 8 years ago

    TIL .png stands for ping

    2 points
  • Davor TomicDavor Tomic, over 8 years ago

    This is really a handy feature, I'll give you that. Now, if only it could do something which is built in Sketch or for which we have to use tools like PNG Express - exporting a single item in multiple sizes, both for iOS and Android.

    I'm a Layervault user and I went through the documentation, but it's pretty slim with regards to explaining the Assets feature and the control thereof.

    0 points
  • Aero TianAero Tian, over 8 years ago

    this is awesome

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  • Shawn BorskyShawn Borsky, over 8 years ago

    Any insight into plans to expose this approach outside of LayerVault Public sites? Like a sweet library or APIs? I love the concept but most situations I find myself in don't allow me to use LayerVault for hosting assets/mocks.

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    • Kelly SuttonKelly Sutton, over 8 years ago

      Definitely. The Public Sites stuff is just a certain short-hand that we've developed to make things more maintainable and human-readable.

      For any public-facing asset, you can just add ?raw=1 to the end of what you're looking at to get the raw output of a preview or an asset. We'll document that in more detail soon.

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  • Brandon ArnoldBrandon Arnold, over 8 years ago

    Seems pretty sweet, but i'd adjust your demo. This isn't something you'd actually do within a website since in the middle of the demo they say it's smart enough to know i don't want the text of the button. If there is no text then we're just placing a blank button as an image tag with no way to overlay text on top.

    TL;DR Awesome concept. Poor demo of concept.

    Rockon!

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    • Kelly SuttonKelly Sutton, over 8 years ago

      Brandon, thanks for the feedback. You're right, I should have used used a background-image property in this example. I'll tweak it in a future version of this video.

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  • Paul DessertPaul Dessert, over 8 years ago

    Looks cool! How do you handle compression? What options are available (i.e transparency settings). How quick is it? If it's pulling directly from a .psd, I'd imagine speed is going to be an issue.

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    • Kelly SuttonKelly Sutton, over 8 years ago

      We use relatively normal default compression. That is to say: we avoid it for now.

      The options will get carried over from the layers/groups themselves. If a layer is transparent, so will the resulting image.

      The whole process is pretty quick, since everything can be parallelized on our service. We've invested a lot of time in rendering PSDs quickly. Things are usually ready to go within a few seconds.

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  • Zach ReedZach Reed, over 8 years ago

    Quick Q based off the demo example: Is "Button.png" just the layer or group name inside of "Mockup.PSD"? Or is something specific you set inside of LayerVault?

    *Disclaimer: I don't use LayerVault, so I may be missing something important here on how it knows what "Button.png" is.

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    • Kelly SuttonKelly Sutton, over 8 years ago

      "Button.png" is the name of either a layer or a group within a Photoshop document. Renaming the layer or group to end in ".png" exposes it for use in the lv_asset tag.

      1 point
  • Adam SelbyAdam Selby, over 8 years ago

    Wow, this is awesome.

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