Once again welcome to Rajput Brotherhood - The fastest Growing Joomla Magazine. Today, we will learn about creating amazing Joomla Templates directly from Psd Template Files. Yea ! At present 1000's of free and premium templates are already available at the Template Market, then what is the necessity of taking extra bit of difficulties for creating another Joomla Template. Well, you are right ! May be 1000's of incredible themes are already available, but if you want to give your own site a damn good unique look ? Then you have only two choices to make, you may either contact any popular Template Providers or freelancer for developing a unique Joomla skin for you or you have to do it by yourself.

This article is specially written for guys like 'You', who understands the power of uniqueness, because you are the only one, who wants to give a different look to your website, you are the one, who wants to differentiate yourself from the common mass. Yes ! This article is only for you. Now you must be thinking "How can I create Joomla template from any PSD template files ? Oh God! I am not a Geek or whatever." Well let me assure you that, you need not need to be a Joomla geek for making your dream Joomla themes.

All you really need is, access to those resources, to those techniques, to those tutorials that can enable you to get into the game of Template making. Here it must be noted that Joomla Templates, Themes or Skins are one same thing. So don't get confused with these three words. Now after reading this article you will be able to convert any PSD Template to a brand new Joomla Theme. Just follow the below given steps :

Steps

• Run your Photoshop application and then open any PSD template file.
  
  
• Follow the below given video tutorial for giving correct names to the PSD layers. For example you may give something like content_joomla or left_Joomla and etc. The first part of the name is about what content Joomla is going to put there, and the second part denotes that, the layer is specially made for Joomla.
  
  
• Read the documentation for learning the procedure for giving correct names to the PSD layers.
• After you finish giving unique names to the Photoshop layers, open your web browser and log on to psd2cssonline.
  
  
• Right at the homepage of psd2cssonline you will notice a "Upload Button".
  
  
• Now browse the edited PSD file and click on the 'Upload' button. It may take 20 to 60 seconds, or even a minute to process.
  
  
• Once the conversion process is over, just download the zip file.
  
  
• Unzipped it and all you see is the template folder. Bravo, just now you have finished creating your own Joomla theme.
  
  
• Copy this folder and paste it inside your Joomla website folder of the WAMP server.
  
  
• Log in to the admin panel of your site and then go to Template Manager.
  
  
• You can see the newly created Template already listed in the Template List box.
  
  
• Select it from the list and then click on the 'Default' button.
  
  
• Navigate to your site front-end and refresh the page.
  
  
• Wow! You have just created a brand new Joomla Template within seconds.
  
  
• Keep visiting Rajput Brotherhood for learning more tutorials on "Making your dream Template".
  
  
• Note : psd2cssonline is the No 1 free online Template creator software.

Video Tutorial