Show HN: PSD Grade - Lint your PSD's.
psdgrade.comInteresting and promising! A few points: (for context, I'm a decent developer working as designer)
- Considering the usual use of PSDs (contract work, most of it is under some sort of NDA), online uploading tool makes this a bit worrisome. I would much prefer drag-and-drop offline solution, similar to Slicy app. That would fit into designers' workflow and we could see some improvements.
- Right now the "grading" areas are few, and somewhat questionable. Mostly questionable is the use of different fonts and font sizes. Many designs benefit from 5-6 different fonts, slightly varying in weight and sizes for best legibility. Some designs are only possible because of that. Much more meaningful insights would be, for instance, non-integer font sizes (23.989 instead of 24), or use of too many font families, opposed to just "fonts" (same family, different weights).
this is true but if you don't take the grades to heart it doesn't really matter I guess except that it swings the overall figure.
Improvements can be made though for sure. It could be a personalized machine learning algorithm but I don't think it's there yet :D
Or, better yet, how bout building this into Photoshop... run the lint & have it suggest re-factorings for the user?
> Several non-integer font sizes are used. OK to refactor?
> Shall we re-organize layers/blending?
+1 for turning this into a Photoshop plugin
For me (in The Netherlands) the domain is not up yet:
> The domain that you are trying to use does not exist. Please click on one of the links below to help find your site.
> ResolvingNameServer.com provided as a free service by DNS Made Easy, the world leader in Enterprise DNS Service.
That's funny, according to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/psdgrade.com (which is not a complete list of course) some DNS servers have the entry and some have the old 54.235.159.97 (that's the parked domain). The URL http://162.243.32.243/ seems to work fine.
Looks like the math is off for the grade.
Received an F for a place and still got a 100% A somehow.
thanks for pointing that out, all resolved!
I'm seeing the same issue with other PSDs that generate Fs
If it is not resolving try these
Not working here in Dubai and neither are the alternative domains provided. If it doesn't work for you try the direct IP (162.243.32.243).
Domain does not exist :| Darn, after getting so many references, the site goes down. The website is missing out so much traffic.
Domain unavailable here too in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
Not available here in Victoria, BC either.
Same in NE US.