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I am quite new to photoshop and use dreamweaver for web designing.

I have inherited a website that was designed(?) using Photoshop - seemingly in 1 PSD file called "master_mock". I also have Image folder and inside there is a VTI folder with other images that I cannot open? The website is controlled by CSS.

I wanted to somehow change the web interface colours and I assume I do this on the "master_mock" and change whatever layers I need to? Then I am lost as to how I get these changes to cascade into my website?

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How do you currently deal with graphics that need to change on your website? – e100 Apr 10 '12 at 11:57
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This is not really a design question. Th OP appears to need basic instruction regarding HTML and CSS – horatio Apr 10 '12 at 13:57
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This is a bad way to build a web site. It sounds like the original developer was relying on PhotoShop's (limited) ability to auto-generate the HTML and images for you. This makes for an incredibly fragile code base, often bloated, and a huge pain for anyone to update.

In theory, yes, you need to re-open the PSD file, make edits, and then export the entire thing as sliced images, HTML and CSS. That might work. It may not.

Your best bet is to start fresh. Build the HTML and CSS yourself, and then use PhotoShop as-needed for individual images here and there.

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