Hi. This video, we're gonna look at changing your  preferences to work with web. Now, by default, Photoshop comes outta the box really  to do a lot more print orientated work. So what we need to do is go into our  preferences and change it for web. Now, first thing we're gonna do is turn on our rulers. Okay?

So we're gonna get a view and down to rulers. Now what that'll do is it'll show me  how wide this document is. Now it's mindset to centimeters, um, 'cause I'm in Europe  and yours will be set to inches if you're in America. Now what's happening here is you can see it's  showing me about 16 centimeters. Now when we're dealing with web, we don't wanna know  what the centimeter value is, we wanna know  what the pixels are. So we need to change this unit of measurement to pixels.

To do that, we'll go up to, on a Mac, go to Photoshop, cc,  go to preferences, and go to one that says units and rulers. Now, if you're on a pc,  it's in a slightly different place, okay? You go to edit, then write down the bottom here. There'll be one that says preferences. And then you go to units and rulers. Okay?

So whichever one, let's make it to units and rulers. And what we wanna do is mindset to centimeters. Yours might be set to inches or millimeters. Let's change the rulers to pixels. The other thing we need to change is the type,  okay, type users points. Typically when we're doing with print.

But what we wanna do is we wanna switch it out to pixels. 'cause that's the measurement we use dealing with web. When I click, okay, you'll notice  that it's now roughly about 1200 pixels wide. And when I go to the type tool, which is this T here,  you'll notice that I'm dealing  with pixels instead of points. One thing to note is that if you're a person  that is moving from print to web, you're gonna have  to go back and change those preferences every time you wanna  work on a different type of document. So to do it on a Mac, we're gonna go  to Photoshop data preferences  and go down to units and rulers.

Remember, if you're a pc, it's under edit preferences, units  and rulers, and you're gonna put it back to either inches  or centimeters and type goes back to points. Bit of a pain, but that's what we have to do. I'm gonna click cancel because I wanna leave it  as it was set to pixels.