Creating a New Document and Adding Graphics
In addition to importing multi-layered Photoshop files to build complete
web pages, PhotoWebber also allows you to import individual graphics.
- You can incorporate existing web graphics - GIF or JPG files - as
part of your page layout
or
- You can import one or more individual layers from any Photoshop file
In this tutorial we will create a new file and add a company logo.
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1. Create a new document:
From the File menu, select New and choose an alignment
option:
- For browser versions 4.0 or higher, select Style Sheet Aligned
Web Page.
- For 3.0 or lower browsers, select Table Aligned Web Page
.
Tip: You can switch between Style
Sheet and Table Alignment at any time.
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2. Import TUTORIAL1.PSD.
Note the blank space in the upper left-hand corner of the page.
This is where you will place the logo.
There are two ways you can import single graphics: from existing
GIF and JPG files, or by importing individual Photoshop layers.
Both options are explained in step 3.
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3. Add a company logo:
From the File menu, select Import Graphics.
To import the logo from an existing GIF:
- Select GIF from the list of available file formats.
- Choose LOGO.GIF in the PhotoWebberSampleFiles folder.
- Click Open.
Drag the logo so it is in the upper left area of the page.
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Tip: When importing existing GIF and JPG files, you can
use the existing logo file or create a new one:
- To use the existing GIF file on your final web page, click Link
to File on the import window.
- To create a new GIF, JPG or PNG file when you build the page,
leave Link to File unchecked.
Notice that the GIF file has only single-color transparency so
it can only be used against the same background color on which it
was created. In this case, the white background does not work.

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To import the logo from a Photoshop layer and maintain the full
alpha-channel transparency:
- Select Photoshop File from the list of available file
formats.
- Choose TUTORIAL1.PSD in the PhotoWebberSampleFiles folder
and check Select Individual Layers For Import...
- Click Open.
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- Highlight PW Logo in the list of layers.
- Click OK.
Drag the logo so it is in the upper left area of the page.
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Notice that the full-transparency support allows
you to move the logo so it overlaps several background color areas
cleanly.
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To see what this will look like on the web, preview the results in your
browser. (From the File menu select Preview, Default Browser.)
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