Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Technique 1: Organizing Image Files and Managing Projects

Save Time By

Maintaining projects

Navigating the File Browser

Organizing your images

Adding virtual notes and voice messages

Before you start a project, take a few minutes to get organized. This may seem like a waste of time — you’re excited and you want to get started — but a little organization now goes a long way in helping you work smarter, not harder.

Some projects can consist of one or two image files, while other projects can be made up of hundreds. Even if you don’t think you’ll end up with a ton of image files, many projects created in Photoshop cs and Image- Ready, Photoshop’s sister program, end up involving literally hundreds of files. How do you organize all this?

Thankfully, Photoshop cs comes with a great organizing tool, the File Browser. The File Browser is more than just a window showing thumbnails of your image files. It is a pretty complete asset management system that you can use to, well, manage your assets (image files). With the File Browser, you can create a folder system to organize image files, search for images using thumbnails, move and rename images, flag and rank images, and much more. This technique covers the ins and outs of how to use the File Browser and includes tips for organizing image folders to help your workflow.

In addition, this technique shows you how to add virtual sticky notes or vocal annotations to an image and gives you a few tips about which image files you should save and which ones you should discard.