The 6 most common mistakes in PS

One, few layers, no grouping

This bad habit we have in the Web Design Guide! PS Etiquette White Paper "mentioned that the creation of layers, learn to group layers is a professional designer must learn, this is not only conducive to your changes, but also the habit of indispensable team work."

In the initial design, you might think that creating a layer less can save time, but when the project gets bigger and larger, you realize how important it is to have enough layers.

When you make a mistake, the layer can give you the opportunity to modify, greatly enhance your editing, copying and even delete the possibility of operations, rather than a new draft.

Multiple layers, you can also make you do not have to always modify a layer, you can duplicate a layer, on this layer modified, the bad can come again at any time.

As for the layer grouping, many predecessors have emphasized the importance of it, I think you must not want to finish a draft, back to do not know what they have just done where, in the layer for half a day, I recommend you to develop these two habits, because they really can improve your workflow.

Second, do not use shortcut keys

When you stay up late and change your manuscript, I think it will help you a lot. As a designer, not only learn how to create a perfect gradient or charming lines, learn to use shortcut keys is one of the necessary skills, learn this skill, change the manuscript faster, less overtime, although the money may still be so much.

About shortcut keys, the original text of the foreigner kindly recommended a few common, for example:

Ctrl + J: Duplicate layers

Ctrl + Alt + Z: Back to previous action step

Ctrl + O: Open file

But really a little foundation, also very few, not familiar with this aspect of children's shoes, small series strongly recommend you come to these two lessons: "30 to improve the efficiency of the Photoshop Secret Shortcuts", "45 designers need to memorize the PS shortcut key", read the powerful increase of wood has!

The intuition does not depend on the grid and the reference line.

This is also a rookie often make mistakes, is to rely on intuition to determine whether the alignment, in fact, is wrong.

In addition to the role of alignment, grids and guides can also help the front of small brother's busy, when you put a psd file to him, small brother can easily through your grid line to understand where is the footer, where is the main body, the entire page style at a glance, little brother immediately to your favor big increase has wood, if you are the opposite sex single designer, It's possible to reap a true love. This kind of hello I good everybody good thing must learn!

Iv. do anything with Photoshop

Just praised it is the most popular software, now to step on the-– but the truth is very right, Photoshop is an image synthesis software, as the name suggests, use it to do gif, do vector map, do 3D, is holding a sledgehammer to kill chickens. To do other things, you can use more professional software, can save more time.

Five, too many fonts

About the font, students can first come to these two articles in the article to learn how to choose the appropriate font "character like the font of the Universe", "Font character!" not into the melody first sentient beings, the same page, the experience of predecessors is not more than two fonts, as long as you have a good understanding of the character of each font, one or two will suffice slightly.

The author's heart is straight, but the small series still can't help sharing these several resources.

Winter is coming! 33 downloads of snow and ice fonts

"The Light dance is flying!" 30 free high-quality English Ribbon fonts Download

Vi. Misuse of filters

Design Novice Just use Photoshop, find the magic of the filter-intuitive display, easy to learn and easy-to-use, and the effect of making your work appear more professional, so large use special. But my advice is to focus on saturation, color, and contrast to make you truly progress.

The author of the Heart Good straighten, but small series or dare recommend. "Photographer must filter Nik collection detailed, let you become palette master"

Finally, the end of the classical sentence in the design world: less is more.

If you find an arrow in the middle of your knee, just, that's your chance to make progress.

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