Considerations for using Photoshop in team work

Ensure the work area is clean and orderly

reasonable layer sorting and grouping make it easier for the designer to understand the corresponding position of all the elements. Compare it to a production workshop, if you throw all the tools around, and your foreman can't find anything, do you have a good day?

Multiple layers of the same object are grouped into one folder

This is an important rule. Layer to group let your layer become orderly, you do not need to name each layer individually, as long as the naming group on the line.

For example, if a button is made up of button icons and descriptive text, they should be grouped into a "button" folder; the menu itself is a group of button pairs, grouped into a "menu" group, and all background layers are grouped into the "background" folder.

The principle is that folder grouping should logically conform to your layout structure.

If an object contains several layers, it should be grouped into a single folder

Separate storage of different versions

Usually we put several different versions of the elements in a file, like a different background of the same button.

But to avoid forgetting that this odd hidden layer is actually a different version of the same background, it's best to give them a good group. The easiest way to do this is to create a "background" folder where all versions of the background are placed. But it's a better idea to copy the entire "button" folder and have the same name as the different versions. This makes it very clear that this is a 3 different version of a button.

With this grouping, your colleagues will understand that these buttons are three versions

Forget about your professional markings.

Many people like to use color to identify layers and folders. Purple represents navigation elements, yellow corresponds to text layers, and so on. But the problem is that these color codes only make sense to the people who created them.

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Do not lock layers

Designers always like to lock layers like this. If you leave this layer in a maze of folders, your co-worker will have to flip through folders to find the layer-because the entire folder is blocking the layer, you can't move it, and you can't pick it up automatically.

Also, don't forget to unlock the forgotten masks, and if your co-workers don't notice such a mask, keep working, there may be a bunch of problems in the future.

Brother Dinosaur, you stay in the museum.

Believe me, a lot of antique designers do not use the layer style, but with the bitmap layer, you are not in the torture behind the project to modify the person.

We know you're a 80-level grid advocate.

Grids simplify our work. We can quickly do some grid layout or align some elements with the grid. But some grids we often only use once, the alignment of an element to forget it, so cumulative, no AH.

If you can't use these guides to make a neat grid of the whole project, you can just erase it.

An empty bottle for one euro--remove the unused layer

If I delete a layer at the end of each project to reward a euro, I think my money is enough for my future generations.

Every time you finish a file, remember to remove all the junk that you don't have, and you're lying there rotting and stinking.

Small "Alt" key, big action

A big reason many people don't like to group projects is that each time they have to fold them in layers, it bothers them.

In fact, the ALT key has a lot of people do not know the function, is that you have to close a root directory when holding down the ALT key while the point that the closed triangle will be its subdirectory also put up.

Add alt key to try Photoshop's other features, maybe you will be a lot of new discoveries oh.

Jump in the bowl.

Don't forget this quick and useful tool for the Layers palette option. Here are a few super useful:

Thumbnail content. When set to layer boundaries, the layer thumbnail is not a thumbnail of its entire document, but of the layer itself.

Extend the new effect. By canceling the check box, you will automatically collapse all new layer styles for this layer.

Add "Copy" to the copied layers and groups. Decisive can't choose! Cancel check you can avoid all the "Copy 230" layer, the resource purity of 30% straight. such as: "Layer 1" copy Out is "Layer 1", rather than "Layer 1 copy 1"

Shortcut keys

There are 3 shortcuts you must understand, understand, and use-copy layer styles, paste layer styles, and clear layer styles (although this hotkey combination must be set by itself Oh ~)

By using layer styles and setting these shortcuts, you can save a lot of time by selecting multiple layers for style copying.

Click to copy Atlas style instantly:

These changes may seem trivial to you, but once applied you will find that you did save a lot of time. The details of the achievements of the Albert AH ~

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