Bloggers should be able to know basic photoshop (for minimum) to build the blog in order that it'll be looked more attractive with a matching color combination so that visitors will feel at ease and will likely revisit the blog, of course it must be supported also by the interesting and informative content.
On one side of photoshop can improve the quality of the appearance or display of a website and on the other side of a website can have interesting content on it own photosop including photoshop tutorials.
A brief explanation below irrespective of SEO and promotion of a site because the fact of a very ugly site can have a good visitor traffic every day, it was certainly supported by many factors, including SEO and paid campaigns. There's also a site that has the look ugly even with the less interesting content, has a high Google Pagerank, it too did not escape from paying promotion and purchase of a permanent one way link, despite the fact the site has few visitors.
With Photoshop, a blogger are expected to:
- Able to set the color of the header, footer, banners and other images so that the more harmonious and pleasing to the eye.
- Able to create a gradient background color or background image by way of repeat-x, repeat-y, and no-repeat.
- Able to set the pixel resolution and an image that looks good in addition can also be opened or accessed quickly when online. Many sites have good image but very slow to open (slow loading) so the visitors will get bored waiting and unlikely to return, otherwise a site that has good content but it has templates and mismatched color image, also less perfect. But of course not all sites like that, only if a webmaster with a good mastering photoshop program then it is certain to create a work of quality art on the site that he has made.
- Able to create a logo, icon, favicon , easily customizable banner.
- Able to create watermark on a personal image so that if someone is copying and pasting the image, a watermark can still be seen as an identity of its maker.
- Able to create menus, sub menus, buttons, menus and background more interesting and varied.
- Able to create and personalized picture frames without buying picture framing software.
- Able to design a simple frames i.e engraved picture frames.