Design proposals - how to keep organized
As part of my voluntary period I have started to work on 2 new projects. I spent lots of hours working with layers inside of my Photoshop files that I almost feel like I am sitting on one of them right now.
When I have turned back on my first design proposal I can not stop thinking how could I do it without layers management but I remember it was not easy. For those of you who do not have any idea what I am talking about let me describe it in a very simple way. Almost anything you create in Photoshop, either it is text area, rounded shape area or any other, they are all placed in their own separate layers. You can image that after couple of hours the number of layers will grow significantly. If you do not keep organized you will end up in the designer’s hell. OK, OK I am exaggerating but the true is that work will become very hard and extremely time consuming.
The best way is to create folders and subfolders and keep that way all the layers organized. Another very important thing is to name the folders with real names which represent the page divisions such are header, logo, footer etc. If you do it this way then looking for a particular object is just a matter of one or two seconds and not minutes as in case when you keep all the layers together in the main view.
I do not think that it is necessary to name all the layers but at least the folders and subfolders should be named. Another advantage of this system is that you can for example adjust opacity of the whole group of layers at once, or you can duplicate the group and use the same element somewhere else on the page. Good example is a button or the header background.
If you are interested what are the results of my latest work in Photoshop you can find them here and here.
