I don’t know how to say it so I might just say it in here.
Next thing people will ask probably is, now that I have the PSD files, can the core team also release the Photoshop so that I can have the right tool to edit the PSD files?
Most designers don’t release the native files even clients paid for the design, there are various reasons, good and bad - what do you expect?
Please have common sense why the files didn’t release in the first place, and please have the decency to not ask something like this.
You buy a template anywhere on the internet and they include the .PSD files. Almost any competent template maker does this as they know the core amount of users aren’t going to want to spend the hours and hours it takes to come up with all of the graphics, they may just want to tweak few here or there and call it good. What you said was assinine and pretty disrespectful to most of us who are here trying to use the product, as complex and difficult to work with as it is, so maybe next time you should think about what you are going to say before you say it??
You should go to buy a template then, instead of asking for yet another thing for free.
I am not a template maker, and though I cannot speak for Varien, I don’t think the company is a template maker - the theme is offer as it’s it, out of goodwill. It’s you who is disrespectful, not me - I meant, if you are the one who was asking Varien to release the source files.
If I sell template, that means everything in it has to be *original*, created by me, so that I will not be violating a photographer, an icon/vector art designer’s copyright , so that I can include the PSD file to whoever purchases it.
If I use a photo or an icon that I purchased from a place like iStockphoto, then I cannot sell the template, and I cannot release it, even though I spent 10 hours putting them in the Photoshop and make it to a theme deslign. By doing that, I will be violating others’ copyrights. What you were asking is disrespectful because you were asking Varien to violate someone’s copyright.
So maybe next time you should give the same advise to yourself, think about what are going to say before you say it.
Violating copyright? Varien designed the interface. The product pictures would be changed by the majority of storeowners. So if they released a PSD format it would not be in violation of anyone’s copyright. It is also not disrespectful to ask if there are such files available, as this would make it easier for those wishing to tweak the interface without spending the next year trying to do so. The problem is, I don’t believe one exists. I am also very frustrated by the gazillions of files needed to create this one interface. Too many images are used, and the css, (boxes.css, etc.) is a designer’s nightmare to say the least. If a PSD were released I would leap for joy.
The Magento team has no plans to release the PSDs used in creating the demo for public use. Demo stores were created for exactly that purpose - to be used as a demo to show what is possible with Magento. Designs for the demo stores were made simply to create a visual likeness of a possible store and were not created in place of facade for individual live Magento stores.
p.s. @JLHC: Your suspicion is correct- Our PSDs are not what you’d normally envision. The designer involved in the demo stores is actually in charge of initial markups and CSS as well (to create no gap in the two steps), therefore there’s no one solid PSD for each page.
So you guys can supply PSD files for the buttons that are used in the theme but you don’t have PSD files for the other graphics?? That makes no sense.....
No I’m not surprised the Magento team isn’t releasing them....that would make things easy, and as we’ve seen from themeing Magento...the team doesn’t like easy.
