We always appreciate it when our blog readers leave requests for specific tutorials. We’re here to help you as you document your memories in your scrapbook pages and projects!
This week’s tutorial is in response to a request from Susan: “Can you recommend an easy way to remember fonts, kit names, designers’ names, or just anything at all that I want to be able to remember on a page I create?”
I’m happy to say that there is an easy way for Photoshop users to keep notes on their pages, and that is with the Note Tool. (Thank you to our forum member Bright Eyes for the information about Photoshop Elements: PS Elements has a place to store the layout information. Under File -> File info – it is located about halfway down the dropdown. Click to open it and you can list whatever you used for creating the page.)
The Note tool is nested with the Eye Dropper Tool in the Tool Panel. Left click on the Eyedropper Tool to access the other tool options, then click on the Note Tool.
Once you have clicked on the Note Tool, move your cursor into your document. Your cursor will change into a small note icon. Click anywhere in the document, and a small yellow note icon will be added. It doesn’t matter where you click; you can move the note out of the way later.
A Notes Panel will open and you can type whatever reminders you would like to keep for reference.
Once you are finished making your notes, you can move the note icon off your document into the canvas, if you like. Save your document as a PSD (or TIFF) file, and your notes will be available for you the next time you open your document.
Thanks, Susan, for this helpful tutorial suggestion!
Credits: The layout pictured was created by me, SnickerdoodleDesigns, using My Heart Lives Here, and a Hot Pocket Template created by Jilbert’s Bits of Bytes.
Jill is generously offering her template as a freebie for us! You can download it by clicking on the image below! Thanks, Jill!
If you would like to keep this tutorial on your computer for easy reference, you may download a PDF here: Using the Note Tool in Photoshop
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Great Tut on how to save info in Photo Shop.
PS Elements has a place to store the layout information. Under File -> File info – it is located about halfway down the dropdown. Click to open it and you can list whatever you used for creating the page. I use it if I am using more than 1 kit – especially useful when doing a Progressive Scrap.
Thank you, Bright Eyes, for this information. I looked but did not see that option! I appreciate you sharing it with us!
Well! ANOTHER I didn’t know about, thank you so very much for this, there have been a few times, that I wish I could have done something like this and now I can. Thank you
Just a note for any Paintshop users. I save info on each layer right in the layers panel. I can either type it in, or if I drag and drop a file into the layers panel from the tray, the file name is copied along with it. At least in PSPx6.
I’m GLAD to get steered to this tool, Karen. Thank you! I have always noted color numbers, font faces and size, and to this day identifying the kit I used etc by RENAMING the LAYER and entering that information instead of the default layer name. This is so much handier. BOY—thank you Adobe, and Karen for something so easy and straightforward.
In fact LONG, LONG ago, (very long) ago…..I would build a new layer, and pull it beneath the “background” layer, and type in everything on there that i wanted to remember: fonts, specialty brushes, designer’s kit, even a note about a tou or source I wanted to remember. And that was easier than remembering to turn on the record history or use the file>info feature. We’ve come a LONG WAY BABY! Thank you KAREN!
love this idea, thank you so much
The ‘Notes’ tool is a handy little feature! I have used it some for the very same reason. I always thought it would be neat to have the notes appear on the final! LOL No more giving credit in the proper place! It’s all right there!
I am not sure about Elements, but, in PS, if you drag your image/document from it’s folder onto the workspace, it retains it’s name in the layer’s palette. Likewise, opening an image/document using “File”>”Place”, rather than “File”>”Open”, it will also retain it’s image/document name in the layer’s palette. If, for some reason, the image was not labeled well enough for me to know who’s image it is, I will type it in. Otherwise, this saves a ton of time, for me.
Hope you don’t mind my two cents. Sometimes, I pick things up that I think will help others and I just can’t help sharing it.
Su
Thank you all for the input. Additional ideas and suggestions are always helpful!