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[ 71 ]› › D E S I GNING IN PHO T OSHOPStep Four: It’s easy to change the size of an artboard
to various standard sizes for mobile and Web. Just make
sure that both the
artboard and Artboard
tool are active, and
then use the Size drop-
down menu on the
left side of the Options
Bar to select from the
list of presets.
Step Five: Here’s a
handy tip if you make
these kinds of docu-
ments on a regular
basis: Save your docu-
ment as a template.
How and why would
you want to do that? Well, the how part is easy. When you
choose File>Save As, the regular Save As dialog lets you
rename the document and decide where it lives. Now simply
type a “t” at the end of the PSD file type suffix, and then save
the document. This document is now a template.
Now for the why: The next time you open this file and
make changes to it, you can’t accidentally save over the
original file. If you press Command-S (PC: Ctrl-S) for Save,
the Save As dialog will appear instead, so you can rename
the document and choose its location. Gone are the days
of facepalms when you accidentally overwrite a file you
wanted to use again.
Step Six: We’re not going to create specific graphics in this
tutorial; this article is to show you how to set up and use
artboards. In the Layers panel, you’ll see Artboard 1, which
appears as a layer group, with a Layer 1 nested in the group.
Anything you add to this artboard will sit in this nested layer.
Let’s add a simple image to highlight this, so go to File>Place
(either Linked or Embedded), navigate to your image, and
click Place. That image now shows in the layer stack.Step Seven: Now let’s create a series of Instagram art-
boards. One way to do this is to click on one of the four
circles with the plus sign. New artboards can be to the left,
right, above, or below, depending on which plus icon you
click (e.g., if you want the new artboard placed to the right
of the original artboard, click the plus symbol on the right
side). This will create a new blank artboard at the same
dimensions, and it will show in the layer stack as Artboard- If we click the plus icon on the right side of Artboard 2,
we’ll create Artboard 3, and so on.
Dave Clayton