Importing a webpage

(( carmen )) wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

I think that’s the wrong way of doing things.

Is it the whole site or just a page.

Adobe have some wonderful tools called Dreamweaver and Fireworks which will do the job better.

you could do a screen capture with a alt print screen and then create a new document based upon the clipboard and then paste it. Two things though… one is no functionality of the links and two is the little thing called copyright.
"Rob." wrote in message

(( carmen )) wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

I think that’s the wrong way of doing things.

Is it the whole site or just a page.

Adobe have some wonderful tools called Dreamweaver and Fireworks which will do the job better.

"bolo" wrote in message

you could do a screen capture with a alt print screen and then create a new document based upon the clipboard and then paste it. Two things though… one is no functionality of the links and two is the little thing called copyright.

Do that. Dreamweaver has a background tracing image feature that lets you put a picture ‘under’ the page. The picture can be set in Dreamweaver with various degrees of transparency. Note that this is purely for WYSIWYG (Design View) work.

It is under Modify – Page Properties – Tracing Image.

I’ve never found it helpful, but it’s there for some reason.

The copyright thing is something to consider quite seriously.

Hum, background tracing feature. Never seen it, like you not sure what i would use it for, but i will check it out!

Thanks
"pico" <pico.pico.pico> wrote in message

"bolo" wrote in message

you could do a screen capture with a alt print screen and then create a new document based upon the clipboard and then paste it. Two things though… one is no functionality of the links and two is the little thing called copyright.

Do that. Dreamweaver has a background tracing image feature that lets you put a picture ‘under’ the page. The picture can be set in Dreamweaver with various degrees of transparency. Note that this is purely for WYSIWYG (Design View) work.

It is under Modify – Page Properties – Tracing Image.

I’ve never found it helpful, but it’s there for some reason.
The copyright thing is something to consider quite seriously.

"bolo" wrote:

you could do a screen capture with a alt print screen and then create a new document based upon the clipboard and then paste it. Two things though… one is no functionality of the links and two is the little thing called copyright.

Agreed. But on many web sites the print function does not work correctly, and the easiest way to get an acceptable printout for reference purposes is to do one (or several!) alt print screens, tack them together, and then print the resulting image.

James McNangle

been there done that. Then crop off the window part.
"James McNangle" wrote in message

"bolo" wrote:

you could do a screen capture with a alt print screen and then create a new
document based upon the clipboard and then paste it. Two things though… one is no functionality of the links and two is the little thing called copyright.

Agreed. But on many web sites the print function does not work correctly, and
the easiest way to get an acceptable printout for reference purposes is to do
one (or several!) alt print screens, tack them together, and then print the
resulting image.

James McNangle

I should have been a bit more clear. It is just a single page.

For those that mention copyright, you are correct. However, I’m not doing this to create a brand new design based on an existing one that I will rerelease on the net. Rather, there are blog sites that I just completely admire and I want to learn how to design similar themes. I feel this would be a good way as I need hands on experience.

"Rob." wrote in message

(( carmen )) wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

I think that’s the wrong way of doing things.

Is it the whole site or just a page.

Adobe have some wonderful tools called Dreamweaver and Fireworks which will do the job better.

On Feb 12, 6:18 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

There is a Firefox plugin which will let you save the whole web page as an image, http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ You can either save the visible portion or the whole thing in PNG or JPG format.

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:19:31 -0800 (PST), Al
wrote:

On Feb 12, 6:18 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

There is a Firefox plugin which will let you save the whole web page as an image, http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ You can either save the visible portion or the whole thing in PNG or JPG format.

Why on earth would you by an plugin while you can simply do a ‘save as’ in any browser?

Dave

Dave wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:19:31 -0800 (PST), Al
wrote:

On Feb 12, 6:18 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

There is a Firefox plugin which will let you save the whole web page as an image, http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ You can either save the visible portion or the whole thing in PNG or JPG format.

Why on earth would you by an plugin while you can simply do a ‘save as’ in any browser?

Because ‘Save as’ in any browser doesn’t save the page (text + images) in a format that can be imported into Photoshop.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.com

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:53:46 +0100, (Johan W.
Elzenga) wrote:

Dave wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:19:31 -0800 (PST), Al
wrote:

On Feb 12, 6:18 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

There is a Firefox plugin which will let you save the whole web page as an image, http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ You can either save the visible portion or the whole thing in PNG or JPG format.

Why on earth would you by an plugin while you can simply do a ‘save as’ in any browser?

Because ‘Save as’ in any browser doesn’t save the page (text + images) in a format that can be imported into Photoshop.

Of course, I did the stupity of replying to Al’s letter without even reading what the OP’s question was – sorry.

Okay, that is why on earth a plugin would be bought:-)

Dave

On Feb 14, 2:40 pm, Dave wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:19:31 -0800 (PST), Al
wrote:

On Feb 12, 6:18 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

There is a Firefox plugin which will let you save the whole web page as an image,http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ You can either save the visible portion or the whole thing in PNG or JPG format.

Why on earth would you by an plugin while you can simply do a ‘save as’ in any browser?

Dave

You don’t have to buy anything, I find the FREE basic version covers all my web page to image needs.

In article <cPRsj.37052$>,
"\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

For those that mention copyright, you are correct. However, I’m not doing this to create a brand new design based on an existing one that I will rerelease on the net. Rather, there are blog sites that I just completely admire and I want to learn how to design similar themes. I feel this would be a good way as I need hands on experience.

If you want hands-on experience in putting together Web pages, don’t use Photoshop. It is not a Web page editor; it is an image editor. Instead. look at the Web page you like, and then bring it into a Web page editor. This will show you how it was put together.

—
Photography, kink, polyamory, shareware, and more: all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

On Feb 12, 7:18 pm, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire page into Photoshop?

Hard Way: Multiple Alt-Print Scr’s and switch to pshop and Ctrl-V paste them. After you have grabbed all you want, stitch them together.

Easy Way: Print as PDF, open PDF in Photoshop. Play.

"Teknofile (NZ)" wrote in message

Easy Way: Print as PDF, open PDF in Photoshop. Play.

Cool idea. BTW, Acrobat can rip a whole site, links and all.

tacit found these unused words:

In article <cPRsj.37052$>,
"\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

For those that mention copyright, you are correct. However, I’m not doing this to create a brand new design based on an existing one that I will rerelease on the net. Rather, there are blog sites that I just completely admire and I want to learn how to design similar themes. I feel this would be a good way as I need hands on experience.

If you want hands-on experience in putting together Web pages, don’t use Photoshop. It is not a Web page editor; it is an image editor. Instead. look at the Web page you like, and then bring it into a Web page editor. This will show you how it was put together.

Good browsers (may leave out Missie) have an ability to "View Source". You can then see how it was done, copy/paste the parts you need to study into a text editor and then build your knowledge base that way.

I’ll have to try this, I didn’t know photoshop can open pdf files

"Teknofile (NZ)" wrote in message
On Feb 12, 7:18 pm, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire
page into Photoshop?

Hard Way: Multiple Alt-Print Scr’s and switch to pshop and Ctrl-V paste them. After you have grabbed all you want, stitch them together.

Easy Way: Print as PDF, open PDF in Photoshop. Play.

None of which will give you any insight as to methods used to create the page, coding, plug-ins, scripts, etc.

"\(\( carmen \)\)" found these unused words:

I’ll have to try this, I didn’t know photoshop can open pdf files
"Teknofile (NZ)" wrote in message
On Feb 12, 7:18 pm, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

Is there a way to take a webpage that is viewed in IE and import the entire
page into Photoshop?

Hard Way: Multiple Alt-Print Scr’s and switch to pshop and Ctrl-V paste them. After you have grabbed all you want, stitch them together.
Easy Way: Print as PDF, open PDF in Photoshop. Play.

On Feb 16, 3:12 pm, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

I’ll have to try this, I didn’t know photoshop can open pdf files

Depends on your version of Pshop of course, but I know CS3 can, I am pretty sure CS2 can, and I suspect CS1 can…

I am also pretty sure v7 and earlier CAN’T! So, caveat on that…

However, Sir FARien has a point… anything in Pshop will give you little to no idea on construction… you would be better to ‘View Source’ and steal the code, then play with it in something like Dreamweaver to study code methodologies.

(ps. Sir F: What’s with the ‘I don’t want my words archived’?? You have good advice, why flag it to vanish? If you don’t want your words to help others, why bother posting? )