ResourceHelper - it's ALIVE!

[Chris Ross]

Hey all

Just thought I'd drop you an email about a new app release - ResourceHelper

It's a tool that is going to make managing image assets and checking they are doing the right thing much much easier making you less error prone.

You can read more about it here: http://www.hiddenmemory.co.uk/resourcehelper/

You can watch some videos here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv6a2deU_u3wNCMamBDyE1A

It's £6.99 in the Mac AppStore, it will save you time :)

I'm interested to know if anyone runs the app on a project and gets all green first time!

Chris

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[James Ogilvie]

Hey Chris,

Graeme and I have just been looking at this - looks very slick! I'll be using it and will give you some feedback.

James Ogilvie

@appsbyzero

http://appsbyzero.com

http://brightonhosting.com

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[Adam Martin]

I found it a bit hard to grasp why exactly I'd use it (but I'm on wifi
today and only looked at the site, not the video, so maybe the video
explains it all?)

The main bit I could relate to was the "auto-generate resized versions
that you can use as placeholder until the art team makes the real
ones" - but that's something that only takes me a few seconds at the
moment, and only has to be done once (there's copy-paste Automators
for finder that do a whole directory of images at once).

The rest ... I wasn't sure how/when/why I'd need it?

[Nick Kuh]

Come come Adam... even you are surely prone to human error? :-)

You've never missed a retina version of an image before a release then?!

[Chris Ross]

On 18 May 2012, at 14:04, Adam Martin wrote:

Well, if you never make mistakes you don't need it.

If however you make mistakes (because you are human) being able to identify where those mistakes are and fix them quickly is a boon.

For instance, the fact you can quickly identify where your assets are broken is OMGAWESOME.

(Even the fact that you can quickly see an image's dimensions is useful. Unless the Finder has never broken for you in which case you wont feel my pain)

[Adam Martin]

On 18/05/2012, Nick Kuh <nick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Come come Adam... even you are surely prone to human error? :-)

Oh, I make *lots* of mistakes! :) I'm sure it's useful, I'm just not
sure which of my mistakes this is going to prevent :).

> You've never missed a retina version of an image before a release then?!

Not yet :). I do a run-through of each screen before submission, and
it's been glaringly obvious if there's retina missing. Maybe just
lucky due to the art-style used (I've noticed that "curves" inside
bitmaps make retina very obvious). Is this a recurring problem for
others?

(for what it's worth, there's been other things that I've got wrong a
few times - e.g. failing to include the correct revision of an image
(that the artist has named "button-for-X final really 1.1 really final
- latest 2.0.png"), or having a UIView with the wrong scale setting
(if you aren't paying attention, the default crops the edge off - been
a couple of times I've not been able to tell at a glance that part was
"missing").

Although ... to date, all of those have been caught by process (send
build to artist before uploading to client - artists have tended to
make a lot of noise if I've munged their beautiful art :))