How to Use Photoshop Templates

Video Transcript

"Okay, I'm going to show you guys how to a, how to use a Photoshop template. I'm sure most of you guys have heard of, you know, there's a lot of websites out there that, where you can buy templates for Photoshop for your website, of course, you know, if you're not too good at designing yourself, you can always just buy one. Yeah, they're relatively cheap and you can always find a whole bunch for free on-line, like I found this one. Just to show you guys, you know, how you go about editing it, let's just open up Photoshop again. So this one here is just a finance one, I'm just going to open it for one sec in Photoshop. There we go. Template. Alright, so we've got our template open here, you know, obviously that's not the name of your company so you know, you want to change everything that you, you want and you want to get rid of the logo's text and you'll probably be writing that in in HTML itself and not as a graphic, if you look in the layer over here, I mean this template's kind of a little bit messy to, to use, but you just have to go through and, you know, find the parts you want to edit, you know, if you want to use a different, I mean, alright, this guy's got 'em all locked as well. Just simply go up here, that's a, either way it's, yeah, there you go, just click on the lock. Make sure this little lock here is unlocked and then you should be able to edit. I don't have all the fonts on this computer like this guy has used. Usually when you download these templates, they come with all the fonts as well as they have to install them yourself. But just for the sake of it, I'm just showin' you guys, you know, how I've got that editing a template. You know you're going to have to mess around with it a little bit or whatever you want to do. Once it's all, you know, so you've changed it all up, company you use. Chuck in whatever you want really. Once you've done all that, as I've shown before, you'd want to go to this last tool, you know, cut it up into the different areas of the website that you want. Generally, when you do download a template, it comes with the HTML as well, but in, just in case, you got a freebie off the net, you you know, you'd want to use this last tool and get all the different areas cut out. And then, you know, once you bring it across to your HTML editor you can, then add in all the text and what not. So you, you know, generally going to want it to be pretty graph, you don't want everything to be the graphic pretty much. That's one of the most important things when you're doing any websites like Google and Yahoo wouldn't like you very much and they won't put your site in there search engine. Just you know, turn off all the text that you won't be using and obviously you'll fill all this back in when you're in, you know, Dreamweaver or whatever it is that you use to edit your HTML. So, yeah, that's basically how we'd go about editing a template in Photoshop."