Looking for good web design tutorials for photoshop cs3

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 13:56

I want to make more advanced website layouts for websites in photoshop cs3. I pretty handy with graphic design but there are things that I am not sure how to create. What are the best online tutorials I can use for this?

The main reason for this is I want to drastically improve my skills. Trial and error has gotten me this far but I need tutorials to learn more. I tried googling but not really finding what I am looking for. The one website I used to use is no longer online.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 22 Apr 2008, 14:42

www.biorust.com has some nifty web stuff (amoung others)

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 14:56

Frozenfireside wrote:www.biorust.com has some nifty web stuff (amoung others)

Thanks. I will try that

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 16:45

Are there any others? This one helps with buttons but I good at buttons. What I am looking for is things like bevels, gradient etc for websites.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 22 Apr 2008, 16:52

Good question. I don't know of any others but I'm sure there are.

Post by **maxxis** » 22 Apr 2008, 16:56

Keep in mind that CS3 will not make you a better designer.

I can do almost everything in Photoshop 7 that I can do in CS3. The work-flow in CS3 is simply better.

Learn and apply the principles of good design before trying to rescue bad design with flimsy tricks.

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 16:59

Frozenfireside wrote:Good question. I don't know of any others but I'm sure there are.

Ok. I will keep looking. But I will have to check tomorrow because I likely get load shedded in about 30 minutes or so.

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 17:06

maxxis wrote:Keep in mind that CS3 will not make you a better designer.

I can do almost everything in Photoshop 7 that I can do in CS3. The work-flow in CS3 is simply better.

Learn and apply the principles of good design before trying to rescue bad design with flimsy tricks.

I know. It is much better than photoshop 7 in my opinion. The only problem is there are quite a few designs tricks etc that I am not sure how to make. I do practise a lot and getting much better but I still need some guidance to make myself better. I made laods of new styles and gradients etc but to make way more difficult things than I can do requires tutorials or some guide on how to do them.

In fact any web design tutorial is what I am looking for including photoshop ones.

Post by **maxxis** » 22 Apr 2008, 17:20

The best advice I can give you is to keep is simple and subtle.

Don't over design things. People are quick to add 10meter wide drop shadows etc to a design thinking it will fix it. It doesn't

Personally I never use bevel effect. I use only drop shadows, gradient fills, inner glows and a few other minor effect. NEVER EVER EVER EMBOSS ANYTHING.

Good design comes with experience. Always try to improve on your own work, and have people crit it.

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 17:33

maxxis wrote:The best advice I can give you is to keep is simple and subtle.

Don't over design things. People are quick to add 10meter wide drop shadows etc to a design thinking it will fix it. It doesn't

Personally I never use bevel effect. I use only drop shadows, gradient fills, inner glows and a few other minor effect. NEVER EVER EVER EMBOSS ANYTHING.

Good design comes with experience. Always try to improve on your own work, and have people crit it.

Ok.I made a few designs which I tried to keep simple and different from the norm. I have to change the one because I had outer glow on it but I think it is simple and is easy to navigate. Once I fixed a couple of things on it maybe you could have a look at it.

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 22 Apr 2008, 20:15

maxxis wrote:Keep in mind that CS3 will not make you a better designer.

I can do almost everything in Photoshop 7 that I can do in CS3. The work-flow in CS3 is simply better.

Learn and apply the principles of good design before trying to rescue bad design with flimsy tricks.

That is so true and there so much you can do in photoshop anyways 8O btw try this http://www.moesrealm.com/

Post by **Anthro** » 22 Apr 2008, 20:21

Shot for that link BG

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 22 Apr 2008, 20:22

maxxis wrote:The best advice I can give you is to keep is simple and subtle.

Don't over design things. People are quick to add 10meter wide drop shadows etc to a design thinking it will fix it. It doesn't

Personally I never use bevel effect. I use only drop shadows, gradient fills, inner glows and a few other minor effect. NEVER EVER EVER EMBOSS ANYTHING.

Good design comes with experience. Always try to improve on your own work, and have people crit it.

+1 there. Less is more. You don't want it looking cheap.

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 22 Apr 2008, 20:33

http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007 ... -tutorial/
some more text-effect

@Anthropoid
THXS dude

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 22 Apr 2008, 20:34

best of all the site is this one http://www.photoshoptechniques.com/

CesarePlay · Post by **CesarePlay** » 22 Apr 2008, 21:51

Thanks for the links. I will try them in the morning. We only just got power again.

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 24 Apr 2008, 19:08

Sorry for hijacking this thread but i got a prob

Prob is

when i make a sig in photoshop,lest say it is 450x120 pix.
Then i add some stuff like fire ext......

And then I use save as and I use JPEG format.Then i get the JPEG options window, ok then i change quality to 5 and format options to baseline standard KK

Now when i check images weight it is over 20kb and if i make the quality less it looks to blurred so can someone help me plz

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 24 Apr 2008, 19:10

Save it as max, upload it here, I'll rehost a shrunk one

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 24 Apr 2008, 19:19

plz tell me dude I can upload them all !!!1

PaperCut · Post by **PaperCut** » 24 Apr 2008, 19:19

@CP

Have you tried Google?

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 24 Apr 2008, 19:25

We got pcformat and we got you pc

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 24 Apr 2008, 19:30

LOL @ MYSELF

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 24 Apr 2008, 21:42

It's a good time to stop laughing at your joke, if it is just you laughing!

badguy · Post by **badguy** » 24 Apr 2008, 21:50

ha ha DarkRanger ya dude I thought pc was talking to me ha ha

AcidT · Post by **AcidT** » 02 May 2008, 00:00

Hi There

I have found quite alot of help on these sites w.r.t. PS CS3 tutorials....

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.ray-industries.be/

This One has quite a few layouts
http://originmaker.com/category/photoshop-tutorials/

This is my favourite site for tuts. It covers basically everything you might need.
http://www.rnel.net/tutorials/Photoshop