From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop
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Make a rule of thirds grid - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop
Make a rule of thirds grid
- [Instructor] We're going to bring some other files into this file and they will appear as layers and we can link to them. So if that file changes, it will update in here. To do that, we go to the file menu up at the top level menu system and we come down and choose place linked. Then we navigate to where we want to choose the file from. So I've got the files that were built for this course, just here. And I'm going to choose this hero cold PSD just here. So we'll bring that in like so. Now at the moment, this is narrower than the actual file itself. It is much, much reduced. It's being placed with its longest dimension first. And what we can do is we can grab one of these corner handles, okay, and resize it. It won't hurt the image at all to do that and then bring it in to compose it within this frame. Now the problem we're having just here, of course, is we've got no compositional guides. We've got smart guys.…
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Cropping an image4m 18s
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Make a rule of thirds grid5m
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Making the feature image3m 19s
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Challenge: Features and products1m 47s
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Solution: Features and products3m 21s
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Making the products image3m 43s
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Removing a background3m 19s
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Color adjusting an image4m 43s
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Creating layer comps2m 46s
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Challenge and solution: Complete the files53s
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