Discover how to simplify the creation of similar projects in the future by creating and saving a preset for a pop-up banner. Learn how to adjust your files, group and move icons, and prepare images for editing by following the steps in this article.
Key Insights
- This article demonstrates how to create a new banner template with a specific size and resolution, which can be saved as a preset for future use, eliminating the need to recreate the same banner each time.
- It provides instructions on how to group and move icons within an artboard, allowing for easy organization and repositioning of elements in your design work.
- The article explains how to prepare an image for editing, including opening the image in Adobe Photoshop, creating an adjusted layer for editing, and saving the file for future reference.
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In this video we'll begin creating our second banner. So let's go to the top and we'll create a new file for this. We'll go to file, and we'll create new.
Last time we created a banner that was 36 inches by 72 inches, and for this next banner we're going to be doing the same thing. So instead of creating this same banner each time and recreating it, we're going to be saving it as a new template for us. So let's make modifications so that we have a width of 36 inches by 72 inches high, we'll make sure to check artboards, and maintain a resolution of 300.
And now, with all of this data entered, let's save it as a preset. We can do this by going to the top right hand side of this window, and we'll click the create preset icon. Let's now give this a name of pop-up banner PTC, for phase 10 construction, and we're going to select save preset.
Now in the future, as we open up and create a new file, we can go to our saved selection, and simply select pop-up banner. We'll now title this on the right hand side, and all of this data is saved for us so we can easily do this. You may find that creating saved presets are helpful for creating similar projects in the future.
So let's now name this PTC Banner 2. We'll make sure that all of these modifications are correct, and we'll click create. The first thing we'll want to do is save our file, so we'll go to file, save as, and here we already have the name PTC Banner 2.psd, signifying that it's a Photoshop file. We'll simply click save, and okay.
Next, let's begin assessing what's going to be happening in Banner 2. To do this, let's open up our file explorer and observe some of the items that will be going into Banner 2. With our file open, let's begin by looking at the phase 10 copy we were provided. If we open this, we can see what we have for Banner 2. We have the title, Our Brand is Your Benefit, and then we have a note below from the individual who's contacting us about these banners. It says our marketing team is still working on a couple sentences of brand marketing copy for this banner, however, we want the theme to be about phase 10 construction, brand, and founding principles, which are safety, environment, and innovation.
In addition, I've attached a few icons that we regularly use. So this is a situation that I often have arise while I'm working with different companies to create marketing materials. In this case, they don't quite have the words for the banner, however, they're going to be getting it to us in the future.
So for now, what we can do is we can place filler text while we're waiting on them to be able to look at what this banner might look like. We can work with that and we'll keep this title, Our Brand is Your Benefit. Let's now go back to our file explorer and view what else we have for this.
In this case, she mentioned that there are icons for this, for the three values. So let's open up the icons folder by double-clicking it. As we can see, we have an environment icon, innovation icon, and safety icon.
All three of these icons are going to be incorporated within the banner. So let's simply add them to our file now. To do this, we'll select one by clicking on it and then holding shift, we'll click on the other one.
We now have all of these selected, so let's just drag them straight into our file. We can click and drag them straight into Photoshop and release. We'll see that we now have one icon only.
This is because it wants to make sure that this is the appropriate size for us to add it into our file. We could stretch it out, I'll hit control Z to maintain it as this size, or we can leave it as this size. Since we don't know what size these icons are going to be at, this seems like as good a size as any.
We'll hit ENTER, or select the check mark in our options bar. I'll hit ENTER, and now we'll see that we have the second icon stacked right on top of it. I'll hit ENTER again, and our third icon is now there.
I'll hit ENTER. As we can see in the right, all three of these icons are now within our artboard. Let's group all of these icons into a grouping folder.
We'll select the top one, and then holding shift, we'll select the bottom one so that we have all three selected. We'll then drag all three of them into a grouping icon below, and we'll double click this and title this icons, and hit ENTER. When I'm working with a new artboard, I don't often like to place things on the artboard if I don't know they're going there yet.
So for me in this case, we're going to take all of these icons and put them off to the side for now while we figure out what to do with them. We'll open up our grouping, select all three icons, and we're simply going to drag them off of the artboard over to the side. If we want to, we can individually click them and move them to the side.
And now we have our icons to the side of our artboard, so we can figure out what to do with them. Let's look at one more item. We're going to have a picture that goes into this artboard, so let's look at that picture and open it up as a Photoshop file.
To do this, we'll go back to our file explorer, and let's go back out to our folder, and in this case we're going to be selecting the Construction Worker JPEG. Even though we want this Construction Worker JPEG in our Photoshop file eventually, we're going to have some editing to do with it. So let's open it instead as a Photoshop file in and of itself.
To do this, we'll right-click on the file, and we'll go to Open With. From here, we have the option to open it with Adobe Photoshop. We'll select this, and here we now have our image in Photoshop.
Additionally, we could simply open it going to File, Open, and we could find the file and open it that way. Let's now prepare this file for editing, dragging our background layer into a new layer. We'll retitle our background copy, Construction Worker Adjusted, and hit ENTER, and next let's retitle our background layer, Construction Worker Original, and hit ENTER.
We'll lock the original layer, select the Construction Worker Adjusted layer, and we're now ready to start editing this. Let's save this file so we can come back to it, hitting CTRL S on the keyboard, and we're simply going to save this with the word Adjusted After Worker, and we'll hit Save, and OK. We now have this file ready so that we can come back and edit it and add it to our PTC Banner 2. Let's now save our work for PTC Banner 2, we'll hit CTRL S to save, and in the next video, we'll begin adding the title.
See you there.