Will Photoshop/GIMP be necessary for web developers now that we have HTML5? The various components of HTML5 can create many of the things we've used images for in the past - buttons, layout, etc. Do us non-designers still need to learn photo/image tools, or can we just focus on HTML5/CSS3/Javascript?
What are you going to do? Design your logo or your icons in HTML5? Make adjustments of your photos with HTML Canvas?
Of course, layout designing in Photoshop always seemed a strange habit to me, ever since I tried it 8 years ago ... because fonts rendering doesn't match; many HTML designs have fluid elements that aren't properly captured by Photoshop/Gimp; and in general you tend to make overly complex designs when working in an image editor.
Will Photoshop/GIMP be necessary for web developers now that we have HTML5? The various components of HTML5 can create many of the things we've used images for in the past - buttons, layout, etc. Do us non-designers still need to learn photo/image tools, or can we just focus on HTML5/CSS3/Javascript?