Saving a text layer to web? the old photoshop to webpage option.

[Xdreamer79]

Not quite sure if I get your right but you can do the slices in photoshop. With that you're able to open up the psd everytime you want, change the text and only save THIS slice around your text with "save for web"...

[berniebernie]

I believe not.

[everlite]

Slice up the doc in photoshop for prep to save as a webpage, any text created in photoshop, when using this process becomes rasterised as a graphic, i was just wondering if there was a way to maintain the live text. But having investigated i don't think it can be done.

Cheers - Dave.

[carnageRPM]

No it can't save the text as vector for the web, only raster.
The only way to save vector to the web, would be to use Flash or SVG formats.

'Photoshop can be used to create a webpage, crappy at best'
I will leave that fight for another day:scream:

[AngelDream]

No, it can't be done. However, this shouldn't be a problem. You can export all the slices, and the slice will preserve the space. Then, in your html editor, check the height and width of your image and select the cell which is hosting it, the <td>. Enter there the height and width according to those from image, and then delete the image. Now that you have the proper space, which is the same than the photoshop one, just copy the text from photoshop and paste it in your html editor, and then format it using css. I hope this works for you.

[everlite]

Thanks, yeh that's the only way so far, just thought Photoshop might be able to understand the text part and publish this to html.

And yep, photoshop is the last resort for creating websites :) I'm having to teach this to someone who's 56 and knows nothing about the web (or computers in general) but has a basic understand of photoshop :)

carnageRPM, thanks, though i didn't mention vector, just plain html text :)

Maybe one for the future.

- Dave

[BlueFlare]

'Photoshop can be used to create a webpage, crappy at best'
I will leave that fight for another day
Well actually this thread is a good example of it, because not being able to convert text in Photoshop to HTML text already makes it pretty useless for web design. All the text you create in Photoshop will be added as an image, which not only makes pages larger and slower to load, but without HTML text on your pages search engines won't rate your pages as high.

So you're pretty much forced to add text to your pages at a later stage, which makes Photoshop the tool what it's actually intended for when it comes to web design: image editor and slicer.

Tools for CSS, scripting, code editing are all missing and the workflow, especially when you have to edit exiting web sites is one to make you want to pull your hairs out, so yes, it's fair for everlite to say "'Photoshop can be used to create a webpage, crappy at best". But I don't blame Photoshop, since it's basically an image editor, which just happens to have some extra tools to prepare images for the web, with in some cases some basic code. Sure you can make web sites with it, but hey... you also can by using html in Word or by writing plain code in Notepad.

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