Sunday, 21 January 2018

Photoshop Quick Tip 005 Generate from Layers

Photoshop Quick Tip series.
The inbuilt generate feature for Photoshop is very useful.
You can export layers and folder quickly by simply using the correct naming syntax.

File Format
.png (Default value: png32 with semi-transparent alpha), .png8, .png24, .png32
.jpg (Default value: 9), .jpg(1-10), .jpg(1-100%)
.gif

File Sizing
200%
250x250
mm cm in

Folders
myFolder/HiRes/

Complex naming string Example.
200% myFolder/HiRes/Logo.png, 10mmx10mm myFolder/LowRes/Logo.png

Photoshop Quick Tip 004 Quickly Renaming Layers

Photoshop Quick Tip series.
Hitting tab while still editing the layer name allows you to go to the next layer

Photoshop Quick Tip 003 Layer Area Selection

Photoshop Quick Tip series.
You can do a lot of advanced stuff with this basic tip (something for another time). Here I show the quick basics.

Photoshop Quick Tip 002 Measuring distances.

Photoshop Quick Tip series.
Quickly Measuring distances in Photoshop.
A simple short-cut that often gets overlooked.

Photoshop Quick Tip 001 Linked Smart Objects

Photoshop Quick Tip series.
How to use linked smart objects.
Save time when working on large projects and re-using assets across files.
Also useful if multiple people need to work on the same project.
Link all the smart objects into 1 master file.

Tuesday, 2 April 2013