› ›kelbyone.com089››DESIGNING IN PHOTOSHOPPreset drop-down menu at the top of the New Guide Layout
dialog, where it says Custom. This opens a small flyout menu
with some built-in preset layouts from which to choose
(8 Column, 12 Column, 16 Column, and 24 Column); but
the option we need to choose is Save Preset.the sides to bring our content in from the edge. If we check
the Margin box, we can now add some space around our
guides. We entered 20mm in each of the four available fields:
Top, Left, Bottom, and Right (see images opposite page). Pho-
toshop will automatically resize the columns and rows, ensur-
ing both are still equal in size, because we haven’t designated
a set Width, with our margin appearing around the edge.
ADDING FAKE BLEED
We can also add negative margins, which will work very
much like a bleed (discussed in the last issue). Negative
margins are useful when adding elements to a document
that are larger than the document’s viewable area, much
like any document with a bleed requirement. To add this
margin space outside the viewable area, we changed each
of the four values (Top, Left, Bottom, and Right) to –5mm.
Again, Photoshop automatically adjusts everything, but
now the margins sit outside the document area rather
than inside.
We want to save our layout with a regular 20mm-margin
layout, so we’ll reopen the dialog, change the margins back
to 20mm, and then we can go ahead and save this for future
use—most useful on a square document.
SAVING THE CUSTOM GUIDE LAYOUT AS A PRESET
For a square document like this, which is useful for creating
such things as marketing images for Instagram, you can save
time by saving your layout as a preset. To do this, click on the
When the Save dialog appears, enter a descriptive name
for this new preset into the Save As field. We named ours
“SQUARE-3 COLUMNS-3 ROWS - 20MM MARGIN.” Then,
click the Save button.