From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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Creating and cropping a new artboard - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Creating and cropping a new artboard
- In this movie, I'll show you how to create a new artboard, and how to crop it as well. So, notice here in the layers panel that I have no artboard assigned to this image. So, unlike in Illustrator, where you always have at least one artboard, in Photoshop you can have as few as none. And so as a result, if I turn off these background items here, I see the checkerboard pattern, which indicates transparency. And, if I were to go up to the window menu and choose the properties command to bring up the properties panel, I have no option for assigning a background. Alright, but let's say I want an artboard where this document is concerned. Then, I'd go ahead and turn those layers back on. And next, you want to select whatever layers you want to put inside the artboard. Now, that does not have to be all of them, by the way. You can have layers inside and outside of artboards inside Photoshop. But, I'm just going to go ahead and select all the layers by shift clicking on the top one. And…
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Advanced layer options2m 26s
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Introducing layer comps4m 40s
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Creating a dynamic layer comp6m 8s
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Updating broken layer comps5m 21s
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Using layer comps to compare blend settings6m 20s
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Introducing artboards7m 57s
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Creating and cropping a new artboard4m 21s
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Adding and duplicating artboards7m 32s
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Moving layers in and out of artboards9m 49s
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Alignment and artboard-specific guides5m 6s
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Exporting artboards as independent assets7m 35s
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17 pages of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts5m 51s
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Exporting artboards to a multipage PDF4m 32s
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