Layers - naming your layers quickly
Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
One of the other nice things you can do when you are working with your layers panel, and you’re trying to get things ready to send out to your designer or developer, you might find lots of times where you’ve got lots of things called rectangle 1, or type 1, or box 2 , ok and they’re not really that useful for the developer.
So what you can do is, - let’s go down to say, our icons which is our services, ok, and open that up, and say you want to start naming these icon 1, 3, and 2.
So it’s our video, photography and our app. ok we’ll go down and do the last one down here. Actually we’ll drag him up for the moment. Get him up to be with his friends, ok so what we can do is a nice little option for naming things, otherwise you’ve got to double click everything to get into it, and spend ages doing it, so the way to do this is to tab between them. Double click this one, and I’ll call this one icon-hyphen and I’m going to call this one video. Bring the tab down, you can see icon-photography.
Rather than having to click on every single one to get it to work, you can just tab between them. ok, so icon - hyphen, this one is going to be called app, and this one is going to be called icon- hyphen print.
Alright a nice little shortcut for naming your layers.