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Make a rule of thirds grid

Make a rule of thirds grid - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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