PSD designing what is that?

Jason

I see few people create the site/forum design in PSD and share the screenshot before coding it. What is that?

Abhi

PSD is the Adobe Photoshop native format. When you design something and want to use it / modify it on Photoshop later, you will have it is as a Name.psd file.

It is like Word files having .doc extension. Photoshop similarly uses .psd

Jason

Sorry i was not clear in my question. When you ask a designer for theme the designer designs it in Dreamweaver (i think in the past) nowadays they give the design they have in mind using a psd file. How does this work.?

Abhi

Jason nowadays they give the design they have in mind using a psd file.

It is like we do in PowerPoint. Photoshop allows to make mockup web pages much more easily than coding. So if we want to `draw`` a theme to show the designer, we can do it in Adobe Photoshop like make slides in PowerPoint.

Another advantage of using a PSD is that there are tools which can convert a properly prepared PSD file into HTML and CSS.

Jason

Thank you, this is what i want to know. When i asked for a design in the past i got one PSD file with the design and i was wondering how is this possible.

admin

Did you receive any PSD designs ? Was that for a theme ?

Jason

I didn't receive but i was shown when i asked for a theme design.