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If you’re the kind of person who likes to keep your layers organized, then this feature is
really going to help you, especially when working on branding projects using artboards,
such as this example we’re using from Adobe Stock.
Here we have a series of social media banner graphics that all have text, shapes,
colors, and effects. Let’s assume that these are the final graphics that you want to use,
but every so often you need to change a font or color. When you have multiple layers
in multiple groups on multiple artboards, this can be a massive pain to manage. But this
is where the layer filters come into play, so let’s see how useful they can be as we go
through each change in the artwork. At the end of this tutorial, you’ll want to tidy all
your layers in the future!
Let’s look at our artboards first. All of the various sizes are laid out and labeled in the
Layers panel. The designs have been done, but we have changes for the next campaign
that include fonts, colors, and effects. We’ll also look at a couple of other options to help
find specific layers very quickly.FILTERING YOUR LAYERS FOR BETTER ORGANIZATION
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Designing in Photoshop
Sometimes you can use Photoshop for a long time and not realize there are features that could
be useful but that you rarely or never use. This issue’s tutorial is on one of those features that
I only recently started using myself. It’s something you’ve probably seen every time you’ve used
Photoshop, but you may never have paid attention to it. I’m talking filters, but not the kind you may
be thinking of: These are layer filters.©Adobe Stock/Oleg R