Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
Another big change in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 can be found in the New Document window.
You can access the New Document window by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl N to create
a new document or selecting the New button in the Start workspace or by going into File
and New, and this is what the New Document window looks like now.
In the items that you'll see by default are the most recent.
In this case, "Default Photoshop Size," a template that I've used--and we're going to
talk more about templates in a moment--and different custom Photoshop sizes that I created.
And if you have something in your clipboard such as a screenshot or maybe you copied an
image, you're also going to have a clipboard sized.
To the right, you have the preset details.
Notice that if I click on Default Photoshop Size, the properties on the right-hand side
are adjusted.
We have width, height, and the different units of measurement.
You can change orientation by clicking on these icons here, so notice, now, we have
width of 7, height of 5, but if I change the orientation to portrait, you'll see those
two swap.
I can check this box to create an art board with my new document, add the Resolution,
Color Modes, Bit Depth, Background Contents.
Notice that right now, you'll only see White, Black, and Background Color, but if I click
and drag on this scroll bar, there are more options, so you have Transparent and Custom.
You can, of course, click on this Color swatch to bring up the color picker for the new document
background, Color Profiles, and the Pixel aspect ratio.
You can also save new document presets by clicking on this icon here.
So for example, where I create a new article on my website, PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com,
I use a feature image that is 970 by 413 and I use a resolution of 72 pixels, and all the
other settings are fine for this example, and if I click on this icon here to save the
preset, I can name it "Feature Image PTC" for my website, click on Save Preset, and
now I have access to this preset.
Every time I create a new document, you can find it under the Save tab, so you will save
out under Recent tab, click on Save, and there it is.
If you don't like it, you can delete it, and now it's gone.
Now, the biggest addition to Photoshop CC 2017 in terms of creating new documents is
the Photo, Print, Art & Illustration, Web, Mobile, and Film & Video categories.
If I click on Photo, you'll see that we have blank document presets that sort of what we
just talked about, just blank documents with different width, height, resolution, and things
like that, but the biggest addition is that templates that you can download from Adobe
stock.
We're going to work with this example a little later on, but essentially, what all these
different templates do is allow you to get started on a project much more quickly.
You can click on the template to read about what it contains.
Currently you can download over a hundred free templates.
You'll also see the file size and you can click on See Preview to see a preview of what
the template looks like.
I can close the preview and we have all different kinds of templates.
We have brochures, business cards, mockups, and just a whole bunch of stuff that you can
download and get started quickly.
I'm just going to go through most of them really quick, just so you can see the difference
between them.
The web category includes responsive website layouts.
The mobile category includes mobile UI kits, and also, iPhone mockups.
Film & Video contains title graphics and graphic overlays and things like that.
So Photoshop is making it really easy for you to get started right away.
And, also, one other thing that you can do in the New Document dialogue box is search
for content on Adobe stock.
So, now, let's quickly see how these templates work.
I'm going to click on the Photo tab to open up one of these templates and I already have
this one here.
It's called Textured Geometric Mask.
If I click on it, I can open it and you'll see this blue circle with a white check mark
on it, this means that this is already in my CC library.
If I select another template that I haven't yet downloaded, then I would have to first
download that template.
So this is what you'll have to do the first time that you try to use one of these templates,
so I'm going to click on this one here that I've already downloaded and I'm going to click
on the Open button.
Photoshop is going to open up that template and you can see it here.
They're all different, but the way this one works is we have all these layers that we
can disable and enable to create different geometric mask, and we have this placeholder
here.
It's a smart object, so if I double click on it, it opens up a new tab and I can place
whatever photo I want here and apply it to a template.
So I have my libraries window here and I have an image from Adobe stock.
I'm just simply going to click and drag that into this template, and, of course, you can
use whatever image you want for your template and I'm just going to scale this up, just
so we could see how this works.
I'm going to move this over to the right and I'm just going to hit Enter and I'm going
to press Ctrl S, Command S on the Mac to save, and I'm going to go back into the working
document by clicking on the tab here.
And you can see the result there.
Now I can keep enabling or disabling layers to create different geometric shapes or different
geometric masks.
I can also go into Window, Arrange, 2 Up, Vertical, and I can see both tabs at the same
time, so that if I select the Move Tool, I can click and drag this around, and then hit
Ctrl S, Command S on the Mac, to save.
And then, automatically updates on the window on the left, so then, that can help me composite
this a little bit easier and faster.
So every time you see it updating here on the left, it's because I'm pressing Ctrl S,
Command S, to save.
Now, just so quickly to show you what happens in the libraries panel, there's a new Stock
Templates library where all your templates are going to be saved and they're saved in
a format called psdt, but when you open them in Photoshop, they become psd documents.
Those are regular Photoshop files.
Any change that you make to the psd will not affect the original .psd template.
And the last thing I want to show you is how to disable the New Document window in case
you didn't like it and you want to go back to the old New Document window, so can press
Ctrl K, Command K on the Mac, to bring up the Preferences window, and under General,
select Use Legacy New Document Interface.
If I check that and press OK, the next time I bring up the New Document window, you will
get the Legacy New Document interface.
I like the new one so I'm going to keep using the new one so I'm going to uncheck this box
and press OK.