Using layers in cc
I realize layers are a thing of the past in cc, but I am now updating my site I created in MX (yes, my program was that old), and I used layers...so, now I cannot create new ones. Is it easy to just convert the whole page to a table, hopefully creating new fields I can just enter my rollovers, etc? If not, how can I create new fields the same size, places, etc, as the layered file? If anyone would be kind enough to respond by sending me an email ([personal information removed by moderator]), I would be grateful.
Converting ancient Dreawmeaver layers to a table is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Apart from tables being an equally bad choice for layout, the code likely to be generated will be a tangled rat's nest of rows and columns.
One approach you might want to consider is converting your existing layers into style rules. You can do so by clicking in the opening tag of a layer, and selecting Format > CSS Styles > Convert Inline CSS to Rule. The problem with doing so is that the layers on each page are likely to be different, so you don't get the real benefit of using CSS, which applies a common set of rules to each page in the website.
Quite honestly, the best approach would be to redesign from scratch. Good luck.
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How do I create a webpage in Dreamweaver WITHOUT using layers?
I'm reading a lot about how we should not use layers and
tables when creating a website in Dreamweaver because of something
called "absolute placement" (or something), which is the reason the
text in my website is constantly misaligned or overlapping when
opened up in Firefox. Although, I've never had this problem before
for the past three years I've been using Dreamweaver to create my
sites, which is what's most frustrating I think.
So, I guess I'm wondering how, then, do I create a webpage in
Dreamweaver WITHOUT using layers and tables? The only thing I've
been able to do w/o layers/tables is to literally hit "enter" and
"tab" continuously until the cursor is somewhere close to where I
want it to be on the page. But that seems a little old-school (for
lack of a better term) to really be the way to do it.
Also, if I've used a lot of layers/tables already in my
website, is the general recommendation for be to rebuild my site
completely w/o layers/tables, or is it feasible for me to have
someone who knows HTML just come in and fix the actual HTML code
for me to make it all work?
Ideally, I just want something to help me fix this problem
w/o having to hire someone else to come in, cause I've been working
this site for about a year now and am just now finally getting it
up online only to find that the way it looks online is not the way
it looks in Dreamweaver. I'd really really appreciate any
suggestions/advice.
Thank you so much!Hello,
The first bit of advice, which you may already be doing, it
to learn HTML
and CSS.
CSS is used to style and position elements.
Instead of adding numerous to add spacing, for
example, you can use
CSS to add margins or padding to elements to move them away
from other
elements.
Also, IMHO there is nothing wrong with using tables,
specially as you learn.
You can also use <divs> and CSS to position them (a
table-less layout).
There are a number of threads in this forum comparing them
and giving many
designer's views.
It's Dreamweaver's "Layout Mode" you should stay away
from.Use "Standard
Mode"
It creates tables with rowspanss and colspans that are very
fragile.
Something as simple as a user having a different text size
setting in their
browser than what you had in yours when you designed can make
the page break
apart.
More info:
http://apptools.com/rants/spans.php
Also, "Layers" are an older DW term for AP Divs (Absolutely
Positioned).
They can cause you a lot of frustration.
More info:
http://apptools.com:80/examples/pagelayout101.php
I would strongly suggest you take a couple of hours to do
these tutorials.
They are a great introduction to using CSS, making a
stylesheet and using
DW's "wizards".
They are very well written, illustrated and easy to follow.
I promise you will walk away with a different outlook on how
you can design
a page.
They are not intended to replace learning HTML or CSS in any
way, I just
think it will benefit you greatly seeing what you can do.
http://projectseven.com/tutorials/css/css_td/index.htm
http://projectseven.com/tutorials/css/qdmacfly/index.htm
I hope that helps.
Take care,
Tim
"darkpwca" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm reading a lot about how we should not use layers and
tables when
> creating a
> website in Dreamweaver because of something called
"absolute placement"
> (or
> something), which is the reason the text in my website
is constantly
> misaligned
> or overlapping when opened up in Firefox. Although, I've
never had this
> problem
> before for the past three years I've been using
Dreamweaver to create my
> sites,
> which is what's most frustrating I think.
>
> So, I guess I'm wondering how, then, do I create a
webpage in Dreamweaver
> WITHOUT using layers and tables? The only thing I've
been able to do w/o
> layers/tables is to literally hit "enter" and "tab"
continuously until the
> cursor is somewhere close to where I want it to be on
the page. But that
> seems
> a little old-school (for lack of a better term) to
really be the way to do
> it.
>
> Also, if I've used a lot of layers/tables already in my
website, is the
> general recommendation for be to rebuild my site
completely w/o
> layers/tables,
> or is it feasible for me to have someone who knows HTML
just come in and
> fix
> the actual HTML code for me to make it all work?
>
> Ideally, I just want something to help me fix this
problem w/o having to
> hire
> someone else to come in, cause I've been working this
site for about a
> year now
> and am just now finally getting it up online only to
find that the way it
> looks
> online is not the way it looks in Dreamweaver. I'd
really really
> appreciate any
> suggestions/advice.
>
> Thank you so much!
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I built an ad using layers saved it and then converted it to a jpeg. Now when I go into elements 11 to do anything else it will not allow to copy and paste to create a new layer. What am I missing?
You know that you lost the layers when you saved it as a jpeg, right? But you're saying you can't add layers to the jpeg now when it's open in the editor? Go to Image>mode and be sure it's RGB, for starters. Are all the commands in the Layer menu grayed out?
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How to use layers from photoshop in final cut?
I am googling, but not coming up with much updated info. I would like to use layers from a Photoshop stills file within Final Cut. Any good tutorial videos out there?
may I use keyframes etcetera and eventually animate separate layers?
Ummmm .... yeah. That's the whole point of being able to open the PSD in its own Sequence. Each layer will be on a separate track so you can manipulate each layer individually. Wait ... I've said that already.
-DH -
I have manipulated a photo using layers etc and then flattened it and saved it under a new name. When I use 'Preview' (mac) to view the finished photo it doesn't look right. It's as the layers have not flattened correctly. When viewed in Elements 12 it looks OK. The photo looks incorrect in other software such as photo books.
Looking at the same photo before flattening, what is being shown is only the top layer.
How do I correct this?STEVEN1A wrote:
I have manipulated a photo using layers etc and then flattened it and saved it under a new name. When I use 'Preview' (mac) to view the finished photo it doesn't look right. It's as the layers have not flattened correctly. When viewed in Elements 12 it looks OK. The photo looks incorrect in other software such as photo books.
Looking at the same photo before flattening, what is being shown is only the top layer.
How do I correct this?
The top layer is indeed the one that is visible, unless there is/are area(s) of translucency on that layer, so that you can visualize a portion of the subjacent layer.
the finished photo it doesn't look right. It's as the layers have not flattened correctly.
Are your settings targeted to have the printer manage colors, or, to have PSE manage colors? -
Photoshop elements 12 using layers to edit a photo
I am having trouble figuring out how to use layers to edit digital photographs. Based on the online tutorials I've viewed, I'm under the impression that in order to edit parts of a photograph without affecting the original background image, I am supposed to create a layer for each set of edits I want to make and then merge these layers together to form a complete edited image with all the touch ups I want to make. I am also under the impression that any edits I make to the layers I create should not be showing up in the original background image, otherwise I have no way of comparing the original to the edited parts of the image to see if everything looks the way I want. Is there any way to make edits to image layers without these changes showing up in the original image and if so, how do I do it? Thanks ahead of time for your help.
AnthonyI suggest you select Help> Key Concepts and read up on Layers.
The simplest way to preserve your original image is to either save a copy and work on that, or duplicate the background layer and work on the duplicate plus other layers you stack on top. Then the quickest way to view original v edited is to Alt-Click on the eye symbol of the background layer - this will turn off all the other layers. Alt-Click the eye again to turn them all back on.
Cheers,
Neale
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If this post or another user's post resolves the original issue, please mark the posts as correct and/or helpful accordingly. This helps other users with similar trouble get answers to their questions quicker. Thanks. -
Does Photoshop Elements 11 allow you to use layers to edit and/or merge photos?
I'm looking into purchasing my first photoshop product. I have used Photoshop CC twice and loved what I was able to do with it; however, I don't want to spend approximately $700 when I'm just beginning. People have asked me to do portraits for them similiar to one I did of my children, but it requires merging and editing the pictures with layers. I know Photoshop Lightroom does not have the ability to use layers. Can anyone help me? Thank you.
Thank you very much. I've just gotten into photograpny within the past 1 1/2 years. I've used Picasa , but I've outgrown it. Again, thank you very much for your help.
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Using layered menus or not?
Using layered menus with PSD assets is a good and quick thing to have your buttons appear exactly as you want it.
Is there any pitfalls in using layered menus, compared to standard menus, with overlay files?
(one thing is that you will have to be careful naming your layers or get mad clicking around trying to assign the right layer to the right button. :-))Niklas:
Something I forgot to mention is that DVDSP create hidden menus for each button state, then, when you change from one button to another, you are going infact to one menu to another, and the user will find a "delay" in the navigation.
From DVDSP User Manual (page 207):
Because layered menus use separate layers for each button state, DVD Studio Pro performs some behind-the-scenes processing, creating separate hidden menus for each possible state of the menu. In the above example with 12 buttons, 25 versions of the menu would need to be created (one with all buttons in their normal state, and one for each button in its selected and activated states). These menus are not visible as separate elements within your project, but are displayed when you use the arrow buttons on the DVD player’s remote control to navigate to a button and activate it.
Due to the number of menus that are created using the layered method, some DVD players may have a slight delay in displaying the menus as viewers navigate around the buttons, which may confuse impatient viewers. -
Centred page design using layers
Hi I use layers to design my web pages but would like to
centre them, so they always
appear in the centre of the page by default rather than
aligned to the left hand side as positioned.
(if you vierw my site you will see how its aligned to the
left but would like to centre it )
http://www.chrisleslie.co.uk)
I know if you design with tables and you centre the page
design it always appears centre but
ist his possible with layers?????please, any help much
appreciated. im using dreamweaver 8......
chris> Hi I use layers to design my web pages
This is usually a very poor choice - here's why....
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layer-overlap.asp
> ist his possible with layers?????
Certainly.
Change this -
</head>
to this -
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { text-align:center; }
#wrapper { text-align:left; width:760px; margin:0
auto;position:relative; }
/* 760px will display on an 800px screen maximized browser
window without */
/* horizontal scrollbars. */
-->
</style>
</head>
change this -
<body ...>
to this -
<body ...>
<div id="wrapper">
and this -
</body>
to this -
<!-- /wrapper -->
</div>
</body>
and see if that helps.
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"chrisleslie" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi I use layers to design my web pages but would like to
centre them, so
> they
> always
> appear in the centre of the page by default rather than
aligned to the
> left
> hand side as positioned.
> (if you vierw my site you will see how its aligned to
the left but would
> like
> to centre it )
>
http://www.chrisleslie.co.uk)
>
>
> I know if you design with tables and you centre the page
design it always
> appears centre but
> ist his possible with layers?????please, any help much
appreciated. im
> using
> dreamweaver 8......
> chris
>
>
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Can't use layers with RAW images
I am using Photoshop Elements 10 and I can't use layers on RAW format images. I'm thinking I must have something set incorrectly. They open in the RAW adjustment window but when I select Open all the layer options are just greyed out and unavailable.
Any ideas?In the camera raw dialog you probably have the Bit Depth set to 16 bits/channel.
Change the Bit Depth to 8 bits/channel
(bottom middle of camera raw dialog where is says Depth)
You can also change the bit depth once in photoshop elements 10 by going to Image>Mode and clicking on 8 bits/channel -
How Do You Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6?
I enjoy merging photos and such together so I can create really neat images, but I am not sure how to do that with this program. I checked out the Help section, but it didn't really help me. Maybe someone on here can. Thanks!
-RebeccaYou are asking a huge question. You'll get a better response if you ask something specific about a problem you are having with layers.
I'm not trying to be mean but you can find vast amounts of basic info on layers with a simple Google query. If you click the Video link after inputting a search query, you can even find video tutorials. YouTube is one place that has quite a few video tutorials.
How layers work hasn't changed between Elements versions. Layers work the same in Photoshop. The application interfaces may be slightly different but layers are layers.
FWIW, I'm not a big fan of the manual. You're better on getting something like "The Missing Manual" by Barbara Brundage or looking for info on the Internet. One free resource with tons of info can be found here:
http://www.garymgordon.com/misc/tutorials/photoshop_tutorial/elements/psE_intro.htm
The tutorials found at the above link use an older version of Elements so you won't find info on the newest tools and features but the basic Editor info on layers and the tools still apply. -
Question about: "How to Use Layers in Elements 2.0"
I have gone over the tutorial "Harness the Power of Layers" and I can not figure out how to open the example the tutorial is showing me. It says: Open the "start.psd" file in the Tutorials folder located inside the Adobe Photoshop Elements Application folder and a wooden doll appears and instructs you how to add the accessories.(hat, bag, shadow, etc.)
Where do I find or open "start.psd" and the doll with the accessories? Also, is there online instructions that show or animate the steps involved in "layers" using Elements 2.0, which I'd pay for. Thank you, RobertChris, I know this is simple, but I'm having a mental block :-(
Are you saying go to "My Computer" where I find "C:Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop Element 2/Tutorials ? I can open Adobe Photoshop Elements. I just can't find "start.psd" in the tutorials link... Can you explain it another way ? Thanks
oh, sorry, yes I'm running Windows XP, 1.5 RAM -
Using layers to combine color photo over lined paper - color loss
I'm trying to do a guest book design for my mom's wedding. I have a photo that I want to combine over lined paper (created w/ Word and scanned. Saved as PDF). I was going to change the opacity of the photo to make it lighter while also bringing in the lines of the image below. I renamed the photo so it was no longer background, selected it, copied and pasted over my white, lined image and the color photo then became a grainy black and white. Alternatively, I could have put the photo over a white background and changed the opacity to lighten it and then drawn lines on the image but this did not work as the lines did not come out uniform. Would really appreciate help!!! I have a couple of PSE books but am still stuck. I'm using PSE 12.
Thanks!Assuming your lined image is black lines on white background, place the lined image above the picture in the Layers Palette. Change the Opacity of the lined image to Multiply. The lines will appear and the picture unchanged.
This is an old version of PSE so my Layers Palette will look different from yours, but the result should be the same.
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Hi I've got a quick newbie question. I'm designing a website
and currently in the process of creating a template for it. When
creating the editable regions I want to be able to move and drag my
layers wherever I want. But when I open a new page using the
template all the editable layers are locked in position and it
won't allow me to move them where I please. Is it possible to
change this and if so how? Thanks in advance for the help!NicholasEdward wrote:
> Hi I've got a quick newbie question. I'm designing a
website and currently in
> the process of creating a template for it. When creating
the editable regions
> I want to be able to move and drag my layers wherever I
want. But when I open
> a new page using the template all the editable layers
are locked in position
> and it won't allow me to move them where I please. Is it
possible to change
> this and if so how? Thanks in advance for the help!
If you want to be able to move layers around a template then
you need to
create an editable region in the master template, where you
can insert
them. Create this editable region just before the closing
</body> tag.
This region will propgate to all pages made from the
template. You will
be able to insert as many layers into the region as you like
and pull
them around.
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="layerInsert" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</body>
</html> -
Please help, simple requirement using Layers, there must be a solution?!
Hi, I am using a trial version of Adobe Acrobat X Pro, with a view to purchasing the program for several members of my staff. However, it does not seem to be able to do something fairly simple which I need.. unless someone can help please! I work with maps that come to me as pdfs, and I need to be able to add text items (with arrows) to these maps that are then visible only when certain layers are selected in the new pdf, so that the three sub-contractors I distribute our completed maps to can view either all the text/arrows we have added, or only the info relevant to them if they prefer.
We've tried saving three maps each with different info on then importing them as three new layers to the original map, but that doesn't give the functionality to interchange views and it's very time-consuming. We've tried using InDesign on trial version but the layers are messy in the exported pdf (adds obsolete layers as a 'feature', the administrator in the InDesign forum said). I've experimented with the pre-flight functions in Acrobat Pro but found them not so user-friendly. Is there a way to select some text items and export them to a tiff with transparent background, then import these as a new layer perhaps? Or please someone tell me I'm being stupid and this was addressed in a simple function since Acrobat v2?!Thanks all, I do appreciate these feedbacks, but I am struggling to understand the analogy between a car and iPad. When buying a car in a different location, you are adviced of all the features and then you take a decision if you are okay with it or not. But this was not the case with the iPad. I only found that out after a while being that it is my first iPad. Of course I will not make this same mistake again but I find it challenging that there are no provisions for correct this facetime issues for none residents.
I assume as you have all continiously stated that I may not make a difference on this as a lone voice but if Apple can consider making it possible for none residents or insisting that this is explicitly mentioned at the point of sales in Duabi for Apple products then it begins to be fair. In the car example, you are at least sure that certain feutures are unavailable and do not realize this after the purchase is done and you are back to your home country.
I also think saying "Dubai iPad" might not be correct as I always believed I was dealing with Apple product which out to give same level of satisfaction accross the globe....
I am a frequent traveller and really it would not have been inconveniencing not to buy this iPad when I did as I could have bought it from the UK, US or SA.....but just thought iPad was iPad everywhere.
Again why do I really have to buy another one? These cost money. And I do not have a shop to sell it as a non-facetime ipad. I would have expected apple center to receive these ipads and replace them or correct them.....
I am just listing this out incase the Apple team can see some sence in what I am saying. There are a number of ways this current situation would have been avoided for people like me.
Regards
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