.psd (Photoshop) file in your template and what can you do with it?

[Morphie]

Greetings and yes I'm a newb,

I have downloaded the World of Warcraft template and I want to make my own template out of it - good for practice I guess. But I'm so stuck with it, I really like the idea of this template all the layout etc. some help would be much appreciated =)

Please view the screenshot so you get what I mean.

I have opened it up in Photoshop and I seem to be able to edit anything I want there, now my question is how can I give my website the look after I have edited it in photoshop? Or it is not possible, I just want to change the borders and the header and the red color to something more suitable for my site. Though I'm not sure if I can save this all into a webpage

Are all these website templates designed fully in photoshop? And why does the creator provide us with the .psd file? As my post title says "what can you do with this .psd file?"

Thanks...

[CovertPea]

Making changes to a psd file wont change one iota of the website unless you also associate those changes to the images within the template's image folder.
Here's a for instance -

[ishkey]

A little knowledge of things is dangerous, understanding now thats usful.
Nice tut CP.
It would seem you can do a whole lot with those .psd files. Nice of the creator to provide them. He is very generous.

[Morphie]

wow :P now that was a good explanation indeed. Going to try different things out in PS right now

many thanks

[Robb Symbiant]

Question on the .psd files. Some of the templates are already sliced and done up with html with the css. But i found that a few didn't pan up and that they were un-editable in photoshop because the slices were missing. meaning that when you finish tweaking out the template yourself you can not save the .psd with a new updated html file and image folder. why is this? example is the first counterstrike page. it comes up already optimized and sliced but say for example the call of duty 2 template on page 7 i think. when i go to save witht hat one the slices are not there and it basically wantes to save as one file. Could this because it doesn't need it? i am confused on this..