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Creating a guide layout

Creating a guide layout

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

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Creating a guide layout

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- [Instructor] Now that we have our first art board, let's just take a moment to do a couple of things. First of all, it would be a good idea for you to save your document, even at this stage. I've done mine already. If you see the title bar here, this is called emails.psd, just there. I saved it to a location on my computer that I can access easily and I even popped it into a little folder. But how you manage that is entirely up to you but do save it as a PSD file, which it should default to anyway. Secondly, I just want you to check your rulers. So command R or control R or view rulers, if you want to go via the menu system. And then go into your rulers and right click just there. And if it doesn't say pixels are checked just there then just move it to pixels and that will change your units. You can then hide the rulers if you want using exactly the same shortcut or menu command. What we're going to do then is…

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