Photoshop - Lecture Blog Post

My entrepreneurial idea is to create a website which would cater to students and professionals in design fields (such as architects, architects, engineers, interior designers etc.) and help them design their own portfolios online, using different templates that can be customized.  The site would also allow users to connect with other users and different companies for prospective job opportunities.

Photoshop is not only a program that is widely used by design professionals, but it is also used by web designers.  Design professionals may use Photoshop to edit or enhance images, create different layouts, or draw images from scratch.   Web designers use it for their website layout and possibly editing images or content.  For my entrepreneurial idea, Photoshop would be a necessity for the design of the overall layout of the website. 

Photoshop would help me decide on the layout, color scheme and would also help me edit any other content I would want to upload as well.  It is important to see how the website reads on the page and with Photoshop you can see almost exactly what will appear in the browser once the coding is completed.  You can see if all the images and text line up the way you would like and check all the proportions.  The splice tool would allow me to cut out certain portions of the overall layout so that I can get the exact size of the images that I need.

Photoshop would also be used for the design of the template layouts that clients will be able to purchase.  The templates will be able to work with different color schemes which I have created, but will also give the option to have the client create their own color scheme through the website once it is purchased.   If the client owns a version of Photoshop, they can edit their own content before uploading to their website.