From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Designing with Grids and Guides
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Canvas guides and artboard rulers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Designing with Grids and Guides
Canvas guides and artboard rulers
- [Instructor] This is a movie about the distinction between artboard guides and canvas guides in Photoshop. Starting with Photoshop CC 2015 artboards are a feature of Photoshop. If you create a new document that is derived from a web or mobile preset, then you will have an artboard. I'm going to use Web Most Common. You can see I have here artboard one and we also see that at the top of the layers panel. This means that if I drag guides onto this artboard these are artboard guides. They're a different color from canvas guides. They are light blue, as opposed to cyan. We can change the color of both, should we choose. The implication is that, if I were to duplicate this artboard-- I'm going to select it by clicking on its tab, and I get these pluses. I'll now hold down my Option or Alt key and click on that plus symbol at the bottom. I've now added a second artboard. Since I duplicated it, I have the same guides. But, if I just add a new artboard, and this time I'm going to move to…
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