If one of the elements isn’t visible on the artboard, click to select its layer in the Layers panel, choose Layer > Align Layers to Artboard > Vertical Centers to move the design element onto the artboard.Īdjust your design to fit the second artboard’s dimensions. The design elements won’t fit right since the two artboards are different dimensions. Rearrange the Design Elements For the Version
In my project, that’s the Pinterest Pin artboard. In the Duplicate dialog box, specify the current document, and then choose the next artboard. Click on your new group to select it and choose Layer > Duplicate Group. (When I was testing, some of the layers were duplicated out of order and onto the wrong artboard - grouping the layers solved this problem.) Select all the layers by shift+clicking on their names in the Layers panel, and choose Layer > Layer Style > Group Layers. Group all the layers in the design to be sure they stay in the right order when duplicating them. Duplicate the Design Elements to the Next Artboard If the client wants changes and you had already made all versions, you will have to make the same changes on all four versions. It’s better to do this before you make the other versions. Be sure to keep all the elements of your design on separate layers, so you can rearrange them to fit the other artboards.Īfter you finish the design on the largest artboard, show the design to your client for an OK on the design and text. I picked up colors from the cover using the eyedropper tool for the Call to Action band at the bottom of the graphic. The cover has a slight stroke around it for definition. I put a mask on the blue lines so they would smoothly fade behind the type. A layer of abstract soft-focus colors mutes the textures so the cover stands out without washing out the color of the background. I researched stock art that mimics the blue lines on the book cover and put in a tight close-up of a leaf to bring in the environmental theme. I plan to re-use this Photoshop document to make graphics for other projects.ĭesign Your Graphics Make Your Design on the Largest Artboardįor this project, I had a flattened version of the cover, and couldn’t pick up any of the art. I named the artboards for the social media and included the dimensions in the name. I made the fourth one for the Twitter In-stream version and set the size to a Width of 1024 px and a Height of 512 px You can follow the same steps to make as many artboards as you need. Click+drag a new artboard and set the size to a Width of 1200 px and a Height of 630 px. Next, I make the artboard for the Facebook Timeline version the same way. My next artboard is for the Pinterest Pin version, so I type in 720 px in the box for the Width and 1080 px in the box for the Height. Type the dimensions for the new artboard into the Contextual Menu.
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Plus signs in a circle will appear around the active artboard. You can adjust the size of the artboard in the Contextual Menu (the menu above your document that changes depending on which tool you are using).Ĭlick on your new artboard to make it active. It’s OK if you don’t size the artboard perfectly while drawing it. Notice that the width and height dimensions appear hovering near the leading edge of the rectangle you’re drawing. With the Artboard tool, opt+click (Mac) or right+click (PC) on the move tool (the one with four arrows) in the toolbox.Ĭlick and drag to create a new artboard. Click with the zoom tool to make the view smaller and smaller until you can see the whole document and plenty of pasteboard around it.
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Zoom out by choosing the Zoom Tool (magnifying glass), holding the Alt key for PC or the Option key for Mac until you see minus sign (-) in the magnifying glass cursor. Select the Artboards checkbox and click the Create button. In this case, I used the Instagram post size, 1080 px x 1080 px.
The dimensions should match the largest file size you plan to make. Step 2: Make Photoshop ArtboardsĬreate a new RGB, 72dpi file. Each social media outlet has its own sheet, you can choose them using the tabs at the bottom of the screen. There is a link in the article to a Google Spreadsheet where you can look up ideal graphic dimensions and file weights. You can find the dimensions on the Sprout Social Always-Up-To-Date Social Media Image Sizes Guide.
Step 1: Find the Preferred Sizes for Each Social Media Outlet Here’s how you can use artboards to make social media graphics perfectly sized for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest in one Photoshop file.
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