Welcome back to uLearn Tutorials
Do you want to increase the height of your artboard?
Or maybe just duplicate your artboard?
Hi, my name is Michael Chow
In today's video you are going to learn how to use artboards in many different ways in Photoshop.
We are going to use the movie database as an example.
If I want to duplicate this home nav,
the menu bar, and everything else to be exact same one as my next page
The easiest thing am going to do is to grab it by the layers name 'home'
and drag it over to this icon, which is create a new layer.
In this case, it's going to create a new artboard
to the right of it.
It's the same alignment as the home page.
Another way to duplicate my artboard, is grab it with the move tool
Command Option (Mac) or Control Option (PC)
And drag it down, or right or left, wherever you want to go
If I use my smart guides, I can actually align it
and release when you're ready.
To delete an artboard
I can just select it in the layers panel and drag it over to the trash can
I can just select it by in the layers and drag it over to the trash can
To access the Artboard Tool, under the Move tool, click and hold
until you see the Artboard tool.
You want to resize your artboard
For example, if I want to make this 1200 pixels high
Just change it, 1200.
What it does, it adds the space at the bottom and hit Enter
The cool thing about Photoshop is that you can add actually add
different artboards at the top, bottom, left or right.
This is really good when you are creating a website that has many pages or many sub-pages
When you see the plus signs here in the artboard tool,
you just have to click on it once, it creates an artboard onto the right of it.
or on the top of it,
or to the left of it,
It's very good when creating mockups for prototyping
And when you do create different artboards, it's a good idea to rename your files.
For example, I have the home page, but I want this to be a
about page, service page and all that you can double click on the name
and go ahead and type away
With the Artboard Tool still selected,
inside the control panel, you have a + sign to create a new artboard
click on it just once, anywhere you want it to be, click off it and it creates another artboard
Another different way to create an artboard, is in the layers panel
Click on the drop-down menu, click on either duplicate artboard
or new artboard depending which one you want
If I click on new artboard, enter a name
or if you want to duplicate an artboard, since I have the home one, select it
I can also duplicate that artboard as well
To move an artboard around, as you can see its on top of each other
just take my Move Tool and select my artboard and move it down
You can also create an artboard by creating a new file - new
Select a size and make sure artboard is turned on (checked) and click create
If you created a document with no artboards
for example, File-New, and you didn't have artboard selected (checked)
and you just have layers only
you can still create artboards.
By doing so, just go to the layers panel, in the drop-down menu, click on new artboard
Type whatever name may be, this will be home and say OK
You now have an artboard.
Another way to duplicate an artboard, is selecting on the layers panel, the artboard and right-clicking it
and here you can say Duplicate Artboard. Name it to whatever you want
and destination and say OK.
If I want to duplicate this artboard to another file or to another document
Select the home artboard in the layers panel, (click) on the drop down menu, click on duplicate artboard
Name your copy
and tell them where you want to go to, am going to select Untitled 4
and say OK. When I click on my untitled 4 document here, it will show up here as my home document
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