Hi everyone!! This is Anne with Graphic Design How To and today we're going
to talk about how to use artboards in Photoshop CC 2019.
So most Photoshop documents don't start out with artboards. I'll show you how
to make an artboard document. We'll also go over to how to add new artboards and
we'll go over why they're useful. So let's get started. Okay, I've got this web
page set up and right now we don't have any artboards at all. So I want to make
an interior page and really the best way to do this is to have artboards, because
we'll be using some of the elements on the interior pages and that'll make it
really easy to duplicate those. I'm gonna go up to Layer > New > Artboard. It'll
just automatically make it the same width and height as your document and
that's what I want, so I'm gonna say okay. You can see that it put all of these
folders into another type of folder called "Artboard 1." So when we go up
here we can see that all of this is on an artboard. If we want to create new
artboards, all we have to do is click on the word
"Artboard" and we get these pluses on every side so we can add one to the
right by clicking this, and then we can add more however we want. Now the nice
thing about this is you can see all the pages. If you're doing user experience
design you'll be able to see all of your screens at once so if you had like
iPhone screens, you could have a whole bunch in one document - it makes it really
easy. The really cool thing about artboards is that you can select some pieces
that will be repeated across all of them all at once. I'll show you what I mean.
I'm going to click on my header and just option- and shift- drag this over here. And
sometimes it'll go outside the artboard so you won't be able to see it, so I'm
just going to pull this right down onto that artboard and there it is.
I'll delete this other copy. We'll get on this header and we'll pull it all the
way up. I'll Command-click to select the logo and I'll just double click on the
vector smart object. We'll just make it into a square instead, and I'll save it.
Then we'll go back to the Photoshop file and you see it's updated here on our
artboard too. If you come over here you can see that it's updated
in both places. If you duplicate one piece of it it will always duplicate
across all the artboards if you make a change, which is really really nice.
Let's come down here to the footer. I want to show you another way of doing
this. We've got our footer here. I'm just gonna hide it. Now I'm gonna
pull this over into our libraries now. We'll get over on this one and I'll drag
this from the library onto my artboard. Hit return and now you can see that's
down there. And you'll have the same ability here to update any part of this
and it'll update across all of your artboards equally. If we wanted to make
this interior page a little shorter, we can do that. I'll just move this piece up,
click on the artboard title again, and then you can drag a handle up. Now we
have a shorter interior page, and of course you'd want to put a header here
and then the text inside. Now another thing to remember about libraries: they
can be used across any document. If we started a new document in Photoshop
and we grabbed this out of our libraries and we made changes in that new document
it would also update everything in this document as well...because libraries go
across all software programs that Adobe offers so that's a really nice thing
about libraries but you have to remember it. Just know that you're going to be
changing it in every place where it's located. All right, now another nice
feature that Photoshop has is that you can export all of your artboards at once.
I'll just go to File > Export > Artboards to Files. Here we can
choose where to put them and what they'll be called and you can also
choose the file type. I'm just going to do JPEGs and we'll run it. This is
actually an action. Also note when you do this you need to have both
artboards selected that you want to export. So go ahead and select them both
then go to File > Export > Artboards to Files.
It'll take a moment to crop everything and get it ready for the export and here
are the exported files. Now you'll note down here that it didn't update this
logo and that's because it's a different vector smart object so it is not tied to
this because it has white text. This one has dark text so they're not the same
smart object - two separate ones. So you'd have to update it both places here.
Alright that's my video for this week! If you liked it please click on the like
button and I'll see you next week for another graphic design tutorial. Thank
you!!