From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep

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Artboards Feature

Artboards Feature

It is also important to mention that Photoshop has a feature called Artboards which allows you to have multiple canvases in the same Photoshop document. When would this be useful? Well for instance here's an example from our graphic design bootcamp course where we created these web banners and instead of having three separate Photoshop files we can have them all in the same file but still having the ability to quickly export them in their designated aspect ratios. So this is the landscape format, square format and the portrait format. The good thing about using artboards in Photoshop is that you can easily move objects from one artboard to the next so for instance if I'm missing the shoe from this artboard I can just select the one from this one and holding down Alt or Option key I can just drag it over to this artboard and then find the best placement for it. Once it's there it moves it in the right place within the layer structure I can just move it down a bit to have the text more…

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