Artboard essentials

- [Instructor] Artboards are a unique…type of document in Photoshop…that enable you to create and store…multiple canvases within a single document.…Although they were initially intended to help designers…create and save multiple screen designs…in a single document,…artboards aren't limited to screen design.…In this video, we're going to see…just how convenient artboards can be…when creating and saving both the front and the back…of a postcard in a single document.…From the start screen, I'll click on new,…and then, in new document, I'll select photo.…

I'll click to view all of the presets.…I'll single-click on the portrait four by six,…but before creating it, I'll enable artboards,…then click create.…In the layers panel, we can see a new type…of layer group called an artboard.…Before we start dragging assets or content…into this artboard, I want to set up some guides.…So I'll choose view, and then new guide layout.…And I don't need any columns or rows,…but I am going to change the top…so that it's 0.75 inches and then leave the others…