Building Websites Using Wordpress 2

I have been doing a video training course called Building Websites Using Wordpress with Infinite Skills which is a dvd rom which is offered on a subscription basis at http://safaribooksonline.com. You pay them £29.95 per month and they give you unlimited access to their courses and e-books which you can use online. Anyway I am doing a blog daily on some of the information I pick up. Today it was still using Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop. To transfer a film from one to the other you use control and x to move it to the clipboard, then control and v to move it to the page in photoshop. It's the same as this in most programs. You often find Photoshop moves some of the objects on you page to the centre and they have to be repositioned. In Photoshop the items on your page are called layers and in Illustrator they are called objects mainly because they are very different programs that have different rules concerning items on a page. If you want to avoid stuff moving around on a page as you transfer it, one way is to make the blank page a separate object in Illustrator. You remove any colour and lock the object but leave everything else on the page unlocked and then do the transfer. You will also find you don't want everything on the same layer which prevents editing. You will transfer everything once so you can see where everything goes for alignment and then break apart the page in Illustrator and import them separately. To group several objects into one layer with in Photoshop you highlight each object and use control and g which groups them into the same layer. Prior to doing a website they recommend doing a version in programs like Illustrator & Photoshop so you can see where everything and it also lets you make it opaque and be able to align everything. Illustrator will primarily do your graphical content and Photoshop will do the photo editing. There is a magic wand tool in Photoshop that lets you select the space within enclosed lines and then you can delete what is inside prior to inserting a photograph. When you import something from Illustrator to Photoshop it will often look a bit funny which can normally be corrected by rendering it. I'll try and do another post in this series tomorrow.