Is just photoshop enough to become a web designer?

[arronmattwills]

Just having photoshop skills is not enough to become a web designer, but I can say that is the starting inspiration to become a web designer.

Your commitment and discipline plays an important role in your success. All the best to freshers.

 

[hoangvu]

According to me, Photoshop is not enough to become a web designer, A web designer need to have good skills on html, php, databases management, javascript/jquery, css and some things else...with photoshop, you can only design some bitmap graphics with no more choices.

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

Yes I agree with your response why because when web designer is designing any big e commerce website then he has to work with programmers in that case web designer must know about data base and little knowledge on php also.

 

[Darby]

There are people who still develop entire page using Photoshop but then there are also designers who do not want designers to do programming at all. However such cases are rare.

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

If he is a very experienced web designer then he can design a website without designing a web photoshop template. Even though designing is necessary.

 

[mehrishaly]

Designing skills and experience make you a web designer. Photoshop knowledge is not enough

 

[GarryKerr]

No photoshop is not enough to be a designer. One must have the skills in HTML, CSS, jquery, Php, CMS etc. I am a web designer and know what skills a designer must have.

 

[scarlettjack]

Basic knowledge of photoshop and a little 1 or 2 years experience can make you web designer

 

[abidasaalim]

Photoshop + 3 to 4 years of experience can make you a web designer

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

Yes i agree with you, but a fresher with one year or six months experience can do the best template design if he has passion in it.

 

[vaneetagoswami]

vaneetagoswami

I agreed that only Photoshop can't make anybody designer you have some knowledge too. But it seems that you describe more experience here. 6-1 year experience is also web designer. having 3-4 years of experience in web design is expert in web design.

 

[hudafaeq]

Agreed arron If a person is interested and has a passion then he/she can easily become a web designer in 6 to 7 months.

 

[abidasaalim]

Its not easy to become a web designer all you need is a good experience to polish your web designing skills and to make better web designer.

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

getting some good responses with experts advices. Thank you guys for your active participation in this friendly forum.

 

[vaneetagoswami]

Nope, Adobe Photoshop is not enough to become a web designer. You have to know other tools too like CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator.

 

[bob]

bob

I thought Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator are only graphic tools, and they are one of tools for web designer, You only can design graphics with these tools without design a complete website with them, right?
A web designer needs to know more things like photoshop, CSS, HTML, PHP, ASP, Mysql,...etc

 

[kailashkm]

No never. Photoshop is not enough to become a web designer and you must learn coding as well.

 

[NicholasK]

You have to master in Dreamweaver being good website developer, But I think IDE are not much important you have designing and coding skills before being a good website developer.

 

[bradvictor1]

NO! photo shop has began you first step. But becoming expert in the firl of web designing is not easy. You have searching other more tool which considered online designing series.

 

[jack85]

Just photoshop is not a enough for web designing. a combination of css, javascript, html, ajax, Jquery and php are need a good web designer.

 

[JoelPDickerson]

No, it is not. A web designer should know about HTML, CSS and dream viewer too. A little bit coding is also necessary for a web designer.

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

Nice response. Yes it necessary to learn coding skills too it helps a lot to design web pages.

 

[JoelPDickerson]

Only photoshop skill is not enough for web designing. Photoshop is mostly used for logos, banners, etc to export web pages. Photoshop is used to create web layouts. But after completing this all process, you have to implement the design by hand-coding using CSS and HTML.

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

I agree with you because you have clearly explained how photo shop useful before and after the web design work.
Yes it is necessary to learn the hardml and css coding as well.

 

[BlaZe]

As I'm a web designer, I cannot tell you that Photoshop alone is enough. It is good for creating web layouts, but for other web graphics, you must have a good knowledge of other tools too.

 

[arronmattwills]

arronmattwills

Yes to create web layout with frontend and backend coding techniques. For that we need have strong skills in html, css, js and backend developer code also.

 

[strawberrybob]

Web design is a combination of design and web development, so design skills using photoshop are a huge part of it, but you still need to be able to implement your design into a functional website using at least html and css.