Join Paul Trani for an in-depth discussion in this video Grouping text and objects, part of Edge Reflow: Creating a Responsive Design.
…As you start adding text and graphics, you need to be…able to organize that content so it's easy to work with.…In fact, what I want to do is, I just want to…import some icons that are going to go right next to this text.…So, I'll go into My Assets > PSD > Icon Assets.…I have all these various icon assets.…And really, I want to start with sights.…So I can add that image, and place it right there.…
I'll just place in a couple more.…Snow being the next one, and then, lastly, sail.…Just like that.…And, really, I need these all to be kind of spaced equally apart.…So, I want this nice little gap right there.…And rather than me moving each one of these elements independently,…what you can do is, you can select both of them by holding down the Shift key.…And then go to Edit, and Group them together.…
See that dashed line around both elements.…And now, if I want to move it anywhere, it's easy to grab and move around, 'kay.…I will undo that because I really want it to be right up here.…I can just place it, say, right there, roughly.…
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4/3/2014- Understanding websites and mobile devices
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- Creating and styling HTML forms
- Creating tablet and mobile layouts
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- Previewing your layout
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