Without a doubt, Photoshop is one of the best image editing tools out there. Many users don’t know that Photoshop in fact can do many other besides image editing. Most of web designers use it for making website templates. PSD to HTML is these days perfect way to create website and stay on top with beautiful and modern design. To start work on your own web template you are at least need to have some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS coding. Main problem that the new designers have is converting their PSD files in to the HTML. You don’t need to have amazing knowledge, just thing or two so you can start from the scratch. So, look online for some examples and tutorial about CSS and HTML so that you don’t have problems latter on, and that you can understand correlations between PSD and HTML.

Maybe the best thing is to visit learning websites, where you can find detail explanations of HTML and CSS. It’s very straightforward process so all of the elements are very clearly explained. Even more, you can find some live editors there, and see from the first hand where you have most difficult time. You can also buy a book about HTML and CSS, but these days rather do some online course for the same matter than spend many hours reading about things that you have no ideas about.

As we said before, designers have no problem to create astonishing websites in best tools out there such as Photoshop, but most of them are having problems to convert a PSD file to a valid HTML and CSS code, so that search engines can go through and put their sites on Google. Every designer start from basic question: “How to convert PSD file into the HTML?” There is a plenty of explanation on internet that you can use in order to get clue abut things such as PSD to HTML and CSS, and most important there’s a bunch of tutorials so you can see actual what is need to be done. Best thing is to go through few tutorials, because there’s no better way to learn than to practice. As we mention, first stop before anything, is to know just basic rules of HTML and CSS coding so that you don’t have many problems at the early beginnings. With that basic knowledge you can complete almost every PSD to HTML tutorial without any problem. Once you believe that you have enough knowledge about HTML and CSS it time to work on some advanced tutorials. Even if you have already design a page in Photoshop, you’ll need to learn a thing or two so you can easily transfer your PSD files into the website form.

For a start, you’ll need some text editor like notepad for example, and Photoshop. If you don’t have Photoshop don’t worry because you can choose much similar software as long as they have saved as PSD option. So, any image editing tool that support cropping is must have. Converting PSD files to HTML and CSS is not such a big deal once you practice it. Yes, you’ll need a little bit of time to be able to create your own templates, but with a practice there’s isn’t a thing that you can figured out, especially when it comes to PSD files and transferring them into the HTML or CSS. Our advice is to keep note beside for every new thing that you will learn, so that you can always go through if you are having some troubles, maybe a code snippets or that kind of stuff.

However, you’ll need to use some of new online tutorials, because many of them are out of date using the old software, and can create additional problems for you such as to slow down your website with loads of little sliced images which is unnecessary. You’ll need to make sure that you use PSD files only for important things and not for things such as text or that kind of stuff, so you don’t unintentionally slow down your webpage.

Latter on, when you learn basic thing about PSD, HTML and CSS, you can upscale you knowledge by adding some JavaScript so your website can be much more useful.

About the Author: Garlak Theodorakis

My name is Garlak Theodorakis, I am graphic designer with almost 10 year experience in the field. Founded Tooft.com in january 2010 with idea to share my knowledge with the world.