[salvadornav]

I used to always start in Photoshop and when I had 2/3rds of the design start coding. But since I started using CSS3 attrs like 'box-shadow', 'border-radius', etc. I only open Photoshop for tweaking icons, patterns, gradients; but never to design the actual page.

[mnicole]

Exactly. Not taking advantage of what you can do - and how easy you can do it - in the code right away just means more time wasted. Once you get the basic layout out, all Photoshop is good for is finding the colors you're going to use (which a lot of times, tools like Colllor in addition to preprocessors with color functions can supplement) and quickly prototyping something just to see it (which is easier in Illustrator, anyhow).

With things like this and CSSHat, I fear that people will use these tools not to learn from, but to immediately sell themselves as devs and further worsen the state of an industry that's already lost its passion for the combination of art and experience by cutting all corners possible.

[brianfryer]

Wow, thank you SO MUCH for mentioning Colllor. Can't wait to use it in my next project :-)

[mnicole]

Right? I spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out who was behind it so I could send them some money, but couldn't. They finally added a form so I hit them up to put a donate button on there. If it interests you at all, I try to put all of the color and general prototyping tools I find on my snip.it -- http://snip.it/collections/1064-design--development-web