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Templates in Photoshop

By Preeti PrajapatiPreeti Prajapati

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Templates in Photoshop

Introduction to Templates in Photoshop

Template in Photoshop is the pre-defined shape of any document for your better understanding of the end purpose of that template. You can also understand it in a different way that templates are used as a representative card of any website, business, person, and some other official purpose. Here in this article, we will understand the template through an example of professional card design and also have look at the different presets of template of Photoshop with their parameters which we have to know before using templates. So let us start our discussion about this topic of Photoshop in a very interesting manner of learning.

How to Use and Create Template in Photoshop?

We can make a template in Photoshop for different purposes by just using some tools and features of this software and we have to understand some parameters of those tools and features. But before we go through our topic I think we should have look at the user screen of this software so that we can easily understand the different terms of this software which we use throughout this article.

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Step 1: At the top of user screen we have Menu bar which has different menus such as the File menu, Edit menu, Image menu, and some others. Below this, we have Property bar of active tool or image for making changes in their parameters. Below this bar, we have Tool Panel at left side, Display window at the center in which we can see our current working, On the left side, we have different tabs such as Color tab, Swatches tab, Layer panel, and some others. You can adjust all these sections anywhere on the working screen as per your choice.

Menu bar

Step 2: Now let us have a new document for making a professional template design. For new document click on Create new button of this window or you can click on the Open button for your saved document.

Open button

Step 3: Or you can click on File Menu of Menu bar of this software for new document. Now click on New option of drop-down list or press Ctrl + N.

Menu bar

Step 4: Now there is a different template size which you can choose from this list or you can enter the desired value of your template in the Width and Height box. Now choose the orientation of your templates such as landscape or Portland then click on Create button of this dialog box.

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Width and Height box

Step 5: Your chosen template size will come on the display window of this software like this as a background layer in layer sections.

background layer

Step 6: Now go to the bottom of the layer panel and click on Create New button creating for a new layer.

Create New button

Step 7: Now go to the tool panel and take a rectangle tool from the tool panel of this software by click on it.

tool panel

Step 8: Now make a rectangle like this with this rectangle tool.

rectangle tool

Step 9: Now make double click on the rectangle in a layer of this rectangle in layer section and once you click on it a color picker box will be open. Choose your desired color from this box. I will choose a yellow color for this rectangle then press the Ok button of this dialog box.

layer section

Step 10: Now make multiple copies of this rectangle. For making copy select this rectangle layer and press Ctrl + J button of the keyboard. Repeat it for other copies. I will make 3 copies of this layer.

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Step 11: Now rename all the copy layers according to you by click on the name of that particular layer for your better understanding. I will name these layers as r1, r2, r3, r4.

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Step 12: Now arrange them like this by using the move tool of the tool panel.

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Step 13: Now make one more copy of this rectangle by the same method. Now I will name it as V1.

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Step 14: Now select the V1 layer by clicking on it and press the Ctrl + T button from the keyboard for free transform box. Now make right-click on this layer and choose ‘Rotate 90 degree clockwise’ option for rotating it at 90 degrees.

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Step 15: Now change the color of this rectangle. For changing the color make double click on the rectangle in the layer of V1 layer. A color picker box will be open, choose your desired color from this box. I will choose this color then press the Ok button of this box.

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Step 16: Again make multiple copies of this V1 rectangle by pressing the ctrl + J button of keyboard and I will name them as v2, v3, v4 for my better understanding during using them. You can open Ruler from the Window menu of this software for better measurement. Click on Ruler option or you can use the short cut key as Ctrl + R for it.

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Step 17: Now arrange these rectangles like this.

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Step 18: Now select all yellow rectangle layers by holding the shift key and group them all by pressing ctrl + G button of the keyboard.

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Step 19: Do the same with v1 rectangle layers and group them all. Now select v4 rectangle and press ctrl + T for free transform box around it and make right click then choose Distort option from the list by click on it.

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Step 20: And distort these rectangles like this one by one. Now again take a rectangle tool from the tool panel by click on it.

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Step 21: Make a rectangle like this with the rectangle tool.

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Step 22: Now change the color of this rectangle the same as the v1 rectangle color.

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Step 23: Now again go to the bottom of the layer panel and take a new layer by pressing Create New button of the layer panel.

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Step 24: Now take the brush tool from the tool panel of this software by clicking on it.

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Step 25: Adjust the size as per your choice from the size option of the property bar of the brush tool.

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Step 26: Now make one click with brush tool like this.

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Step 27: Now take text tool from tool panel by click on it.

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Step 28: Take any professional font style from the font style option of the property bar of text tool.

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Step 29: And type your desired text here and arrange them at a proper place like this.

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You can add different types of content on your card as per your client requirement. You can also add your company’s logo in this card. Desing of your card totally depends on your idea.

Conclusion

Now after this article you can understand what template is in Photoshop and how you can create a template for different professional purposes. You can use your own idea for making professional templates for your project work.

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