From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Creating a background

Creating a background

From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Creating a background

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- [Instructor] Okay, we are getting very very close to actually having a poster. However, we need a background for it and we've held off from that so we could see our sketch underneath but I think it's time to go to the layers panel to turn off that sketch layer and then we can lock the talent layer there and just make the BG for background layer active. What I'm then going to do is tap M on my keyboard and then you can either click and drag from one corner down to another or simply click and type in, in the width 18 in. It doesn't matter what units you are using if you type in inches, it will convert it as you can see when I tap through by 24 in just here, okay? Once you hit return, you will get your rectangle drawn like so. You can then go ahead and use the alignment controls because it's aligning to art board with a single item selected to align it to the center in both dimensions and then change the color.…

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