Hey Everyone,
Welcome back to another tutorial, and in today’s video, I will offer a few different ways of resizing artboards in Photoshop! A few months ago, I created a video on: ‘How to Use Artboards in Photoshop.’ I briefly showed one method for resizing the artboards, but I should have shown you other methods. There are always different ways, and there is no right or wrong way, as long as you get the results you want.
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Let’s open up Photoshop
- Let’s create a new document. Make sure you checkmark Artboard on to create a document with artboards. You can leave the name as an artboard or rename it yourself. You will know if you have created an artboard when you see the artboard name show up here.
- In the Tools panel, click the icon to select the Artboard tool (keyboard shortcut “V” behind the “move tool”).
- Resize the artboard if necessary. From the tool options bar, select a preset size from the Size pop-up menu.
- Or enter a dimension in the fields here.
- Open the artboard panel. Go to the main menu > Window > Properties > Artboard. In this panel, you have the option to either turn the link on or off. If you turn it off, you can add the width or height, which won’t affect one another. If you have the link on, the artboard size with being resized proportionately.
- Another way to resize your artboard is with the artboard tool (keyboard shortcut “V” behind the “move tool”). Once you see the plus sign in the circle symbol, place the artboard tool on the edge of the artboard horizontal or vertical to the circle symbol to resize the artboard.
- Remember where those circles + symbols are. With the move tool (keyboard shortcut “V” behind the “artboard tool”), the circles are hidden. Trust me, and they are there. You can resize the artboards the same way as you can with the artboard tool.
- Oh, what you have multiple artboards that need resizing? Select multiple artboards in the layers panel first, select the “artboard tool” (keyboard shortcut “V” behind the “artboard tool”), and change the size in the dimension fields and properties.
Yes, there is another way that I haven’t mentioned (the New Artboard to Layers). I prefer the methods that I have mentioned as it is quick an easy.