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[Janice W Davis Friend Janice W DavisJoin date: September 2014Posts: 105Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

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I need to change the shade of red to a slightly different shade of red. I thought that this would be a relatively easy thing to do since the template comes with the photoshop file.

So there are 4 images that I want to recreate – the red bar at the top (intro-bg.gif), red slideshow panels (sl-bg.png & topsl-bg.gif) and the footer (botsl-bg.gif).

Now I notice that the size of the side panels in red.psd is 343 pixels high and the dimensions of the sl-bg.png file is 1020 x 400 pixels.

So what process should we use when we want to do a simple change such as changing the shade of red?

Thanks

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#344165

Open the desired files and use the hue/saturation tools in photoshop.

[Janice W Davis Friend Janice W DavisJoin date: September 2014Posts: 105Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#344300

Thanks Phil,

But changing the color is not the problem – I have done that already.

The problem is that the dimensions of the sl-bg.png file that the ja_sulfur template uses is 1020 x 400 pixels – but the height of the that same piece of the photoshop file is 343 pixels high. Not only that – if you turn off the layer that contains the slide show picture – between the 2 side red panels – you are not left with a transparent section between the red panels but with a solid red area.

So it looks to me as if I would have to:

1. change the color
2. copy the merged area
3. past it into another file
4. cut out the center section
5. make the image bigger
6. save as.

This is not how I expected it to go, my expectation would a 2 steps:

• change color layer
• save as – with the selected slice.

So I’m thinking I must be doing something wrong – as changing the shade of red (or other color) must be fairly common – why do we have to jump through hoops for this?

Why are the images in the photoshop file not the same size as the actual site?

Why isn’t the psd file sliced?

Why aren’t the layers set up properly – so we can turn off the layers (center slideshow image) in order to recreate the sl-bg.png file?

Thanks

Janice

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