How I Use Photoshop to Design Images for My Website

[Ghulam_Murtaza5827]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Photoshop for a while to design images for my website, and I wanted to share some of my favorite tools and techniques that help me create high-quality visuals:

:artist_palette: Smart Objects – Helps in resizing without losing quality.
:paintbrush:️ Custom Brushes – Perfect for adding unique design elements.
:crayon:️ Layer Styles – Great for creating engaging effects for banners.
:straight_ruler: Guides & Grids – Helps in aligning elements properly for web graphics.

I mainly create promotional images and UI elements for my site using these tools. What are your favorite Photoshop features for designing website images? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Smart Objects, Smart Objects, Smart Objects! 

Nowadays it seems a lot of Photoshop users take advantage of the advantages of Smart Objects (combining elements in different Color Spaces, non-destructive Transformations and Filter applications, multiples both in one and multiple files, …) but it did take some of them a while. 

[gtasan_110]

Hey, thanks for sharing your go-to tools — I agree on Smart Objects and Layer Styles; they’re game-changers for [removed]

I do a lot of work on UI elements and hero banners, and here are a few features I constantly rely on:

Shape Layers—Super useful for clean, scalable buttons and icons.
Snap to Pixel Grid—Keeps everything razor-sharp, especially for UI.
Adjustment Layers—Great for making non-destructive edits across multiple elements.
Export As / Save for Web—Helps me keep images optimized without losing too much quality.

I recently put together a breakdown of my workflow and favorite Photoshop tricks for designing web images. 

[Bojan Živković]

I also have a website, and sometimes I use actions to automate tedious tasks like resizing, adding a watermark or logo in the top left corner, and similar activities. Additionally, creating templates is essential, at least for me and for my online shop.

[Trevor.Dennis]

I'd love to see the link Bojan.  The mods are not big on sharing links to personal sites when we consider it spamming, but I think someone like yourself has earned the right to share.  Hmmm...  I just thought... it might not be in English?

[Bojan Živković]

It's not in English; I won't post the link here. It's a clothing store for big guys and has nothing to do with Photoshop or Adobe. Here’s one for social media. Ps templates in use, of course.

[Trevor.Dennis]

8XL  Now that's properly BIG!