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Photoshop Friday Convert a PSD to a CSS Layout

Rafael — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:31:00 +0000

This week’s tip comes to us from CSS How To. It involves converting a Photoshop PSD file into a CSS layout for your website.

When would something like this be useful?

Let’s say you’re surfing a site design site and you find that they have a really nice Photoshop PSD file that you would like to use to layout your website. You know that you need to convert it to a CSS layout, but you have no idea how to go from PSD to CSS. Those instructions should help you accomplish that.

I’ve seen offers from companies to convert the files from one format to the other and charge upwards of $100 per file for the service. I thought I’d post these instructions in case you were needing to do a conversion or two of your own.

Photoshop Friday

Rafael — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:34:38 +0000

Today’s photoshop friday, is a little late, but here it is. This is a really neat tool that I learned about the other day. It’s called content aware scaling.

Here’s a tutorial that explains the concept of content aware scaling and walks you through the different steps much better than I can.

Enjoy!

Photoshop Friday

Rafael — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:09:38 +0000

I’m a big believer in learning how to do certain things for yourself. I do not believe that you need a web designer to create a website for you, however, there are some cool tricks that graphics designers can do that are awesome.

For today’s photoshop friday post, here’s a list of 50 Photoshop tutorials for the clever beginner.

All of these are really cool. Some of the tutorials have links to more “basic” beginner guides. I really appreciate that these tutorials take you by the hand and show step-by-step what to do to re-create the image.

If you want more Photoshop tutorials, there are additional photoshop links in the sidebar

Silly photo editing

Rafael — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:11:05 +0000

I debated whether to post this or not, but I thought what the heck. Here’s a link to a site that lets you edit your pictures, online, but it lets you do silly things to them.

The site is called “Blingee” and essentially the site lets you bling out your pictures.

Yeah, I don’t know what you would want to use this for, but some kids might like it.

More about Photoediting

Rafael — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:10:43 +0000

To tag along with yesterday’s post about Photoshop tutorials etc. I thought about what if you can’t or don’t want to install anything to your computer? Or, what if your computer is too old to run Photoshop etc. what do you do then?

Enter this list of 15 online photo editors

Basically, the collection of sites that I’m linking to, allow you to edit your pictures online without having to download or install anything on your computer. How cool is that?

I don’t know that I’ll post anymore photography related links, but I thought that some of y’all may find these links useful.

Let me know if you’d like to see more links to other resources like this. I have a whole bunch of them on my thumb drive.

Photoshop tutorials

Rafael — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:43:34 +0000

This post has nothing to do with Social Media. I just wanted to share a couple of things with y’all.

These last few weeks, I’ve been getting more and more into Photoshop. Not just for the potential to muck around and put people’s faces on animals etc. but for the real potential to make images pop.

If you’ve been following my stream, you may have noticed that one of my pictures got picked to be in a guidebook about the City of Austin. I’m totally stoked about that. I don’t even care that I’m not getting any money for it. I’m just stoked that someone liked one of my pictures enough to put it in a guidebook.

My Photoshop thing has gotten to the point where I recently added a section of links pointing to various tutorials in my blogroll. My favorite of all those links, for the record, is “You suck at Photoshop.” I like that for the humor, but it really helped me open my eyes to the potential.

I also added some links in the blogroll to Gimp, which is a free photoeditor. It has a lot of the same features that Photoshop has, only it’s free. Well, it has a lot of the features, but not all of them. It also doesn’t execute them the same way, but, if you have nothing, why not get started with a program that costs you nothing?

Check the blogroll for some sites for learning Photoshop, or follow here to learn about 50 Photoshop techniques.

Enjoy!