Organizing Makes Life Easier

When it comes to Photoshop, repetition is easy if you do some organizing.

You can make folders and subgroups when you have a lot of layers to make it easier on the eye and better to scroll though.

 In order to make the group, you just click on the folder at the bottom of the layer bracket and it will help you organize your stuff!

Like I mentioned a few posts ago, the positioning of the layers are very important. The place this comes into play are with the background and also the additional photos added in. By putting the background at the bottom, it ensures that everything will lay on top if it and it can fade into the back.

In the case of The Office clip, putting the additional photo at the bottom of the list it allows the appearance of the text being over Jim. 

Now that everything is organized it is easy to switch out the players and information as I did in the following graphic:

It also gives the ability to move things easier if you have to flip the picture like I did in the graphic below:

Since we organized our different layers into folders, it is easy to Control-Click multiple layers and move them together.

Using the arrow tool, you can move it all from one side to another in order to flip what is needed to change the graphic.

There are several reasons to change the layout of the graphic. One is to change the way the graphics work especially if they will be posted one right after the other. Another reason is because of the picture placement. Depending on the dead space, some pictures may work better in other locations.

These graphics ran on a professional hockey team's website. For being a beginner to Photoshop, self-learning got me to a good point. Luckily I also have a good Director of Media who taught me a few other things along the way too.