![]() The rectangle we’ve created shows the left and right edges of the layout grid we’re about to make. When there’s no stroke set, the box has a line through it, just like this: 6. Change the fill color on the left to a light gray, and make sure that there’s no stroke set. Just underneath those settings, you can also change the fill and stroke colors for the selected object. W and H set the size of the object, and X and Y set the position of the object in the document. Once you’ve created the rectangle, set the following values in the Properties panel. The size doesn’t need to be exactly correct when you first create the shape, because we can always use the Properties panel over on the right to set the precise values that we need. Next, we want to click and drag within our image to draw a rectangle that is 960 pixels wide and 800 pixels high. Also, note that the same keyboard shortcut applies to all of the tools within a set-Photoshop will select whichever one you used last. This is important to note, because if you recently used a different tool in the set, like the Ellipse tool, it means that the icon will appear differently. (Check the Tools panel cheat sheet from yesterday if you can’t find it.) One thing we didn’t mention yesterday is that any button with that tiny arrow in the bottom-right corner is actually a set of tools you can select which you want to use by clicking and holding on the icon in the Tools panel. This lives in the Tools panel on the left. You can press ⌘ 1 to get back to actual size, and use ⌘ + and ⌘ – to zoom in and out in steps. Hit ⌘ 0 (zero) to fit the canvas size to the window. I don’t know about you, but on my screen the document is looking pretty zoomed out. We’ll explain more about file types towards the end of the week. If you see a dialog box called “Maximize Compatibility”, just click OK (and-even better-also click “Don’t show again”.) For reference, “PSD” is the file extension for Photoshop files. ![]() Hit ⌘ Shift ⇧ S to save the document, giving it a name like “Landing Page.psd”. Make it 1200 x 800 pixels, just like yesterday. Turning Smart Guides on means that Photoshop will help us align objects to one another. ![]() You can find this setting by going to the View menu at the top of your screen, then the Show submenu, and clicking Smart Guides. These shapes are going to form a column-based layout grid to help us with our landing page design.īefore we get started, we just need to change one more setting: make sure that Smart Guides are turned on. In order to start exploring how layers work, let’s create some shapes. Today’s tutorial: creating a layout grid using shape layers Alternatively, think of a Photoshop file as working like a collage: every element in a collage must be on top of or underneath another element, though some of those elements might be transparent or semi-transparent. Layers are stacked in the same way that we might pile up sheets of paper on a desk.
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