Re: Photoshop/ImageReady Layers - web buttons

["Henry J. Wicko II" <henry -dot- wicko -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Evelyn,

One site (membership only) to note of that has a tutorial on site design
using buttons and slices (and many more Photoshop tutorials and resources)
is the National Association of Photoshop Professionals -- NAPP.  As a guy
who dabbles in Photoshop and weighed the annual membership fee for personal
and some professional use, I am glad I did.

Member benefits include forum access, which happens to be very active, video
tutorials, "Photoshop TV" podcasts, member discounts on associated goods, a
Photoshop magazine, a personal portfolio page, and for an extra $10 you can
but "Layers" Magazine which focuses in on other Adobe applications like
InDesign, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator.

I would have recorded a video of the tutorial for you because I think it
might have helped out but it would have been an enormous file and did not
have time to prepare a response to your post from it.  Let me know if you
want me to view it and send a response out  to it that other list mates
might not have covered from it.

The site address is http://www.photoshopuser.com/.

HTH and let me know.

Henry


On 8/15/07, Evelyn Lee Barney <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thank you Al, Gordon and Sean.  All your input is helpful.
>
> Sean,
>
> Since I do have the images separate form the buttons themselves, and
> therefore starting from the top is mostly a matter of copy and paste - I've
> decided to do that.  This is a self-learning experiment, so there is not
> actual deadline, and doing the details over will only help me recall how
> next time.  I'm trying out your instructions now.  I will be using
> Dreamweaver to finish the site design, so the buttons will be CSS.
>
> Any further tips anyone has will be most welcome!
>
> Ev
>
> > Just remember that when you are doing these image states, your
> > final goal is to get a different image (different file) for
> > each state and then in the Web page point to the correct file--
> > you don't stick each of the button states into a single file
> > and then tell the Web browser which layer to look at. The only
> > reason why you might want your images in a single file is for
> > maintenance purposes and for the reason that I mentioned in
> > the steps above. A proper use of layers makes it easier to
> > make changes to an image. But, since you already have three
> > different files, I don't see you getting any of that benefit.
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