Photoshop to HTML Class at CreativeLIVE.com

by cliff538 on April 14, 2010

in Tutorial

Photoshop to HTML is a must have skill for making some killer designs. Slicing up a PS design and turning it into a web page is not easy to do without some instruction. Believe me I’ve tried. I think it’s just one of those things that really helps if you see it being done.

I have looked at many screencasts and how-to’s and nothing has really nailed it for me. I hope this new course by creativelive.com that starts on April 20th will be the one to explain all the missing parts for me. You can watch it for free every week if your off when they broadcast it or you can buy it so you can watch it at your convenience. It’s 39 bucks if you buy it before the classes are done on May 18th or after that it’s 89 bucks.

This is fresh modern content that should be a really good course, Erik Fadiman is the instructor and while I have no prior experience with Erik you can watch two intro videos to see exactly what he is going to cover. Erik is taking three or four popular/modern/current designs and slicing them up from PS to HTML/CSS. The only thing that has me slightly worried is that he is going to use DreamWeaver, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out. I do not use DW and don’t encourage anybody to if they are learning. Hey, maybe I’ll be so impressed with DW that I’ll want to buy it, but I doubt it…

So, check it out. Watch it for free if you can or buy it before May 18th to save a few bucks. I hope to show you my fresh Photoshop design turned HTML/CSS in a few months!

Never Stop Learning.

Photoshop to HTML with Erik Fadiman
creativeLIVE.com

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Drawing Web Apps You Should See

by cliff538 on March 16, 2010

in Great Tech Blogs/Tools

Picture of swooping flames

Flame is something that you should really go play around with. Might be a real tool for making web site backgrounds. Go check out the site and look at the gallery to see what people have been creating. Peter says he is also working on a stand-alone application.

Peter describes the application here:

“Flame is a painting program, it belongs to my ‘I am Artist’ experimental project. I think with tools which inspires you, everyone can be an artist. You can try it here, change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings. When you change background from black to white, palette changes from additive to substactive and the feeling of the painting is very different. It’s not easy to explain all brush parameters, so I leave this for your experimentation.”

You can save your masterpieces in 1680×1050 to your computer. Peter had to stop allowing uploads to the gallery due to bandwidth limitations. If you make something cool or use it in your web site let me know I’d love to see it!

The next one is Harmony Procedural Drawing Tool. This one is also incredible and currently has 11 different brushes you can use. Below I just did a quick example of each brush.

Drawings from Harmony Web App

Now get to work and make something spectacular.

Cheers!

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