From the course: Learning to Use Stock Photos and Assets

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Using stock templates

Using stock templates

- [Instructor] Stock templates are another way to add custom elements to your project. Stock templates are documents with blank areas that allow you to add custom elements such as a logo, your own photography or even a video clip. Stock templates are fairly new but do offer an easy option to enhance your design work. Template formats can include Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or even layered Photoshop files. No matter what type of template you choose, each one has a basic premise, customizable pieces that allow a user to easily edit or add their own material in order to create a final design. Let's take a look at a template from Adobe Stock. Inside this template file, you can see over in the layers panel that there is a tablet mask folder and inside there's a layer that says add image here. That's actually the space that I wanna place my custom image. I'm simply gonna find the image that I want, copy it, switch over to my Photoshop file with the layer highlighted…

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