712 Jogging your memory with the Note tool

- Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week we're going to be talking about a feature…inside Photoshop that I'm guessing…you seldom if ever use.…You may not even know it exists,…and that's the Note Tool…which may sound like a prosaic i.e. boring topic,…but it's actually quite useful…for annotating what you're doing on the fly…so that you can remember it later…and communicate it to other folks that you're working with.…So here's a personal anecdote.…I create a ton of content as you may know.…You may, too.…And I'm frequently working on files late into the night.…

I'll wake up the next day.…I wouldn't say the next morning necessarily…but the next day without a keen memory…of how I got to where I am.…I mean inside the file.…I know where I am in my house.…I'm just fine.…But where the artwork is concerned,…I may not really know how I created a certain effect…which can be very frustrating…especially since the nature of my work…is to tell you how I got from one point to another…which is why it's so awesome to be able…