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30+ Best PSD to HTML/CSS Conversion Tutorials

Posted: 25 May 2010 03:00 AM PDT

If you’ve found some troubles on turning your PSD designs into HTML/CSS, or you would like to learn some new HTML and CSS tips, this roundup is for you.

In this collection, you’ll find 32 Very Detailed Tutorials on Converting High Quality PSD Designs to HTML and CSS. These tutorials would help you to improve your coding skills and techniques.

1. The Design Lab: PSD Conversion

In this tutorial you’ll be learning how to code design lab layout tutorial.

2. Coding Up a Web Design Concept into HTML & CSS

In this walkthrough you'll go through the process of converting the design concept from PSD document right through to completed HTML and CSS mockup, complete with clean and valid code, a few touches of CSS3 and some quick fixes to help out old IE6.

3. Coding a Web Layout in XHTML and CSS

In this tutorial we'll be learning how to code a web layout. Hopefully it'll be good practice for anyone who doesn't really know how to use XHTML and CSS. Moreover, this tutorial acts as a great introduction to CSS and XHTML.

4. How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop

In this web development tutorial, you will learn how to code a web page template from a Photoshop mock-up from a previous tutorial called “Create a Clean and Professional Web Design in Photoshop” using HTML/CSS.

5. Coding: Corporate WordPress Style Layout

In this tutorial you will learn how to code the Corporate WordPress Style Layout into xhtml and css.

6. Digital Curriculum Vitae: PSD Conversion

This tutorial you'll be walking through the process of coding your "Digital Curriculum Vitae" into a working HTML/CSS Template.

7. Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial you'll get a taste of what's to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.

8. Design and Code Your First Website in Easy to Understand Steps

In this tutorial, we're going to design and code our first website in simple, easy steps. This tutorial was written for the beginner with the hope that it will give you the tools to write your own standards-compliant websites!

9. Coding a Band Website Created in Photoshop

In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned step-by-step how to design an awesome band website in Photoshop. Now in Part 2, you'll learn how to take that PSD and turn it into clean, working XHTML/CSS code.

10. Coding: Design Lab TV Styled Layout

In this tutorial you will learn how to code the Design Lab TV Styled layout into xhtml and css.

11. Personal VCard Pt.2

In this tutorial you'll be converting the vCard into a 4 page template.

12. How to Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML

The tutorial covered the process of designing our site concept from sketch to finished PSD design.

13. How to Design and Code a Flexible Website

In this tutorial, you're going to be designing and coding a simple blog-style web-page. You'll pay special attention to making your design flexible and accessible by using clean and simple XHTML and CSS. This tutorial is aimed at beginners, and anyone looking to improve the accessibility of their web designs.

14. Create an Animated "Call to Action" Button

In this web design and development tutorial, you'll get a walkthrough for creating a “Call to Action” button sprite in Photoshop as well as how to use jQuery to animate it. This tutorial is broken up into three sections: Photoshop, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.

15. Code a Corporate Website from a Photoshop Design: PSD to HTML Tutorial

In this tutorial you will walk through the process of coding Corporate Website design in HTML and CSS.

16. Hosting Layout #2: Sitebuild

Learn how to code a Hosting Layout using a free PSD file.

17. How to Create a Lifestream of Your Online Activities

A lifestream is a simple website that compiles your online activity in real time and displays it in chronological order. These days all the cool kids have personal lifestream sites, so let's take a look at creating our own website that pulls in a range of RSS feeds through SimplePie and displays them together in a cool design.

18. Design and Code a Slick Website From Scratch

In this second part of the tutorial, you will code your design into a standards-compliant, cross-browser xHTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery layout. Fire up Coda, or your editor of choice… it's coding time!

19. Minimal and Modern Layout: PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversion

In this web design tutorial, you'll see a process for converting a Photoshop mockup to working HTML/CSS template. This is Part 2 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and then convert it to an HTML/CSS template.

20. How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design

Coding a Clean Portfolio Design into HTML/CSS.

21. Web Design Layout #10: Sitebuild

Today you'll be taking through the process of converting web design layout into a one page template.

22. How to Convert a Photoshop Mockup to XHTML/CSS

Follow this walkthrough of coding up a graphical website layout into valid, standards compliant XHTML and CSS. Starting with the initial process of exporting the individual images from the Photoshop document through to building the complete page.

23. How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website

Let's take a look at producing a single page portfolio concept in Photoshop, constructing the page in XHTML/CSS and adding some fancy functionality with jQuery.

24. How to Code a Grunge Web Design from Scratch

In this step-by-step web development tutorial, you will learn how to convert a beautiful and eye-grabbing grunge theme web layout–created from Photoshop in a previous tutorial–into a working HTML and CSS template.

25. Dark Layout #2: Sitebuild

In this tutorial you’ll be showed how to slice and dice the dark layout #2 PSD into a working template.

26. From Photoshop to HTML

You will learn how to make a generic business template from the Photoshop file that is included with this tutorial.

27. Coding a Clean & Illustrative Web Design from Scratch

In this comprehensive and step-by-step web development tutorial, you will learn how to convert a Photoshop mockup of a professional web layout design that features an illustrative landscape header into a standards-compliant XHTML/CSS template.

28. My PROject Pt.2: PSD To HTML

Today you'll be converting your PSD into a one page working CSS template through this tutorial.

29. Coding a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design from Photoshop

In this web development tutorial, you'll learn how to build a web page template from a Photoshop mock-up from a previous tutorial called “How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop” using HTML/CSS and the jQuery library.

30. Web Design Layout #9 SiteBuild

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to code the web design layout #9 PSD.

31. Portfolio Layout #10: Learn To Code It

Coding tutorial of the portfolio #10 layout. In this tutorial you’ll read the steps to take in slicing and coding the layout. Before attempting this tutorial i highly suggest you create the layout before hand and have it ready

32. Building a Website (2 of 3): HTML/CSS Conversion

In part 2 of this series, you begin the HTML/CSS conversion of the Photoshop mockup you created in part one.

30 Must Have Floral Brushes for Photoshop

Posted: 25 May 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Nature always is very good source of inspiration. If you are creating poster, web design layout or photo manipulation related to nature you will find this collection of floral brushes quite useful. Your work will look more lively and elegant by using these brushes.

In this collection you will find 30 Beautiful Floral Brushes Sets for Photoshop. Before using them in commercial projects please check the licences.

1. Floral Ornaments

7 brushes in set. Free for your personal and commercial use.

2. Spring Flower Brushes

11 brushes in set.

3. Floral Abstract

Floral Abstract pack contains 15 big (up to 2500px!) brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!

4. Photoshop Flower Brushes

You can download them and use them for commercial purposes, as well as personal. You are not restricted in how you use my brushes and patterns as long as you do not claim authorship, sell them, use them for any offensive or unlawful purpose.

5. Floral Photoshop Brushes

This pack has several dozen brushes ranging in size from 800px-100px. Also includes some grunge floral brushes. They are crisp and clean because they are rastered vectors.

6. Flower Ornaments Brushes

7 brushes in set.

7. Flowers First

4 free high resolution brushes.

8. Floral Brushes

9 brushes for Photoshop 7. These brushes are free for non-commercial use. You must credit and link back to this site when you use the brushes in your designs. Distribution of these brushes is no allowed.

9. Vector Foliage-Plants Brushes

A set of Photoshop brushes made up of various foliage and plants in vector designs. Includes several grasses, flowers, plants, branches, cherry blossoms, bamboo, leaves, vines, and much more. Sizes average about 900 x 900 pixels.

10. Free Floral Brushes Pack 1

Free Floral Brush Pack made out of some scanned stuff and some images found during some heavy web surfing. Feel free to use for commercial, non-commercial, and any other projects.

11. Starwalt LinearSidebar Brushes

6 brushes consisting of flourishes and linear blends all vertical.

12. Floral Brushes

13. Floral Brushes

Four high resolution floral brushes.

14. Floral Brushes

15. Floral Pack

This brush set contains 10 different floral brushes.

16. Floral Brush

5 Floral Brush Set in High Resolution.

17. Floral Abstract

18. Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes – Floral

These are 100% original and REALLY BIG brushes, available in CS1 and CS3 formats, as well as a full set of PNG's for everyone else.

19. Swirls & Flowers

Swirls and flower brushes for photoshop. License:Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

20. Vector Flowers

Contains 19 brushes. License:Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

21. Floral Brushes

License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

22. Simple Florals Brush

Simple floral motifs, for photoshop 7 and up. License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

23. Photoshop Floral Brushes

11 beautiful floral brushes with the average size of 800px. License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

24. Curly Floral Brushes

Beautiful floral design brushes for photoshop 7 and up, available in three sizes max is 900px. License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

25. Floral Brushes

A set of 15 floral PS brushes. Feel free to use them as you wish. License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

26. Suddenly Spring Brushes

Brushes may be used for personal projects and websites outside DA, though not redistributed in any form for commercial purposes.

27. Fantasy Floral

This brush set are made from Illustrator vectors. These 4 sets of Fantasy Floral vectors were compiled in single ABR file. License:Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.