Let me start by saying that am not really an artist, I'm primarily a coder that gets roped into doing web sites here and there. I'm doing a web site for a friend, and he found a template on line that he liked and forwarded it over to me. The package contained a sample index page and it's associated images...and one PSD file that has basically the whole page in one file. Looking at the html source and the included jpgs I can see that they basically carve up the psd file into numerous jpgs and plop them into tables with zero borders/spacing/padding.
Am I wrong in thinking that I should make all the changes in the psd file, save a flattened copy, and carve it up into bits that are the same size as the sample jpgs? I know I'm asking what is probably a stupid question...but in this case I am stupid. I took one stab at it but my cropping was one or two pixels off so it didn't work out.
Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated, TIA