It’s much easier to create great looking websites in half the time. While Photoshop is a fantastic tool for photo manipulation and I regularly use it for this, watching someone do a seemingly simple task in Photoshop is an exercise in extreme patience.

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My question: Seeing that i am a complete noob to web design and themes, i do have a little experience with PS though… how easy will it be for me to customize my own theme with the PS file? For instance i would probably just want my own logo’s and photo’s etc so could i just replace the layers in the PSD file with my own?

And if say i wanted to change the actual format, ie. adding a new menu bar or moving photo’s around into new positions, would i be able to do this relatively easily? I am quite computer literate but a noob to the web designing/themes part… just a reminder! Thanks!

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That said, let me detail my current speed daemon methods.

1. I name my layers accurately and arrange them properly.

2. Once finished with the design I re-save as a new file.

3. In this new file I begin flattening layers into separate layered elements. Here is where knowledge is very important e.g if you don’t know how to code rounded corners then you won’t know how to split up the elements into layers. I’m careful to name layers so they match their final file names.

4. I use export layers to png to save these layers to
individual files. Later I’ll likely batch process them into other formats and make compression and optimization changes.

What are the benefits over slices ? To numerous to list fully but here are a few big ones.

1. No re-doing slices and re-adjusting slices, which eats up a bunch of time. Need that transparency ? Well, turn off all the layers below slice, and then after you have to slice all the elements that were below.

2. Need a set of elements like everything from the header? Or how about all your icons? Try doing that in one slice in varied circumstances. With a simple script you can export every layer from a group, select header group and bingo done. Or tag your layers with -icon and export all those icons in one shot.

3. Re-exporting a bunch of images after a simple change e.g color scheme. Yep re-do every slice and if you didn’t save those slices using layer comps your going to be re-doing allot.

Sorry Adii, looks like I’m leaving epic comments here now to. Time for char limit? haha

Generally though it’s much easier to go from PSD to static HTML and then HTML to WP.