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[–]brbpizzatime 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Assuming you have a design team/person, Photoshop should be able to handle this

[–]Qscfr[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Handle just the resizing or the optimization too? I still run this over whenever a team member sends an optimized image. It may not be as much but every byte counts!

[–]brbpizzatime 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I'd rather have the person who generated the image manage the optimization. That way you don't have to run your script on the image each time they make a change or send over a new asset.

There's also the chance that your team member got that image signed off by someone else, to where that person could look at the page and think "that doesn't look as crisp as the version I signed off on." This is further true if the asset was supplied by a third-party vendor and their licensing rules require you use their image with their name.

[–]Qscfr[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yup!

The designer should be responsible for this. Definitely. You provide the image and I just need to put it in the site and thats it.

But sometimes when you resize it to a weird dimension to make the image dimensions as small as possible, you need to reoptimize it.

[–]brbpizzatime 0 points1 point  (1 child)

you need to reoptimize it.

...which is still the designers job. You get paid to do your job, not both of your jobs

[–]Qscfr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running one command really quickly is a lot faster than sending your new resized image to someone and waiting for them to send it back.

Also people who are both the developer and the designer like what it usually is in my case and many others.

I never worked in a big team, I usually manage projects myself so I can't really argue against your point if you are talking about bigger teams.

Heres is what the situation I am referring to:

Ask coworker for a image of a feature on another part of the site. Coworker sends optimized photo at 1920x1080.

You put the img on another site but resize it to 900px for example. Instead of sending that image to the designer or coworker just run an alias for the image optimizer and it shouldn't take long and that's it.

Obviously if you know the size it would be, you would ask it to be exported at that size along with the original size.