Re: Organizational practices with Ps files questions

Thanks, Dave. I figured as much. I think dpi matters more when scanning, which I do a lot of, that may be why I tend to have these 600 dpi images.

With the layer names I'm trying balance between being organized and keeping things concise. In Flash I've had problems with length limits on names (not sure if that still happens in CS4), I wouldn't be able to preview a scene if it's name was too long, and too long seemed to be around 10 characters. So I wanted to avoid crowding those fields. Maybe After Effects is designed to handle more text.


Perhaps a better question about image sizes is what is a good practical maximum? This would be for a background image intended to panned across or otherwise used in a way that you only see a part of it at a time. I don't want to design large, scrolling backgrounds and then find out they're choking After Effects, but I'd like them to have detail that will stand up.

Not to say everyone's so careful. Some of the shows Radical Axis does for Adult Swim do reveal their Photoshop nature in close ups. They had a shot that zoomed into a character's eye, and the last several frames were quite chunky.