From the course: Photoshop: Best Practices for Collaboration
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Organize layers using folders - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Best Practices for Collaboration
Organize layers using folders
- [Narrator] As you can see, I've gone ahead and renamed all of the remaining planet layers to match that same convention that we had used for the yellow planet. Now that all the layers are named correctly, there's one more thing that I would like to do to organize this file, and that's to put each of these layers into folders. Now, let's assume that all of your layers for your files are clearly named. Why bother with folders? And the answer is, it comes down to speed. Research about how humans use computers has shown two important factors. First, when we're navigating file and folder structures, we go straight down the list until we find what we need, even if we're the ones who made those files ourselves. This same principle is true in the layers panel. But keep in mind the experience that someone else has when opening your files. They can't rely on their memory that a layer is somewhere near the bottom or any other memory strategies because they haven't seen the file before. The…
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