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Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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Cool idea but I suspect by the end of this year anyone who seriously uses Photoshop will be using Adobe's Creative Cloud solution to solve the same problems.

Granted, Creative Cloud isn't fully released yet, but it will be soon and it is basically this plus Dropbox plus full native integration into all the Adobe apps.

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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For me the biggest thing about Github is the ability to learn for other programmers. I am a CS grad student though so I recognize that for others collaboration is the secret sauce. Provided this solved my problem of trying to learn something about design, I'd use it frequently.

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the kind words, Andrew. I'm not sure if you found it but you can compare multiple revisions side by side and also overlay revisions to see what's changed.

It took me awhile to find it, because in FF 10 on Windows, the X|Y button is showing up as an FL (it looks like it might be a sprite issue? the buttons on the bottom have the same problem) but once I found it, I liked it a lot.

We have fixed the problem for Firefox. It should look great now!

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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I've always thought, in a working environment, it would be best for everyone involved if designers got up to speed with git. I know git is hard, and I know designers are not necessarily command-line junkies. Rather, my point is simply: it's worth it. So for me, downloading a client that syncs, while useful, is not the _answer_. The answer is for designers to embrace git and also for developers to make git easier to u…

GitHub have a fantastic Mac App which makes git significantly easier to use for those less technically inclined.

It's sort of fantastic. I love that it's not just a remapping of git commands to buttons. It really is simple and easy to use.

The big problem with that is that its extremely buggy. It seems to choke on merge conflicts most of the time and it can get into some really weird states. I've had it undo changes on completely different files than what I told it to and lose hours of work.

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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Nice to see others in this space. Kelly Sutton et al run the slick http://layervault.com which comes to mind. "Simple version control for designers"

layervault is very slick - this does seem to take a different approach to seeing all the revisions next to each other.

Re: Show HN: Github for Designers

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post #46

I've always thought, in a working environment, it would be best for everyone involved if designers got up to speed with git. I know git is hard, and I know designers are not necessarily command-line junkies. Rather, my point is simply: it's worth it. So for me, downloading a client that syncs, while useful, is not the _answer_. The answer is for designers to embrace git and also for developers to make git easier to u…

Yes, Git does. For text files. Not for something like a PSD. A PSD absolutely requires some sort of visual diff tool that can interpret a diff of a binary PSD, just just a binary file.
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