If you’re like most people, you probably use Photoshop to edit photos and create graphics. But did you know that you can also use Photoshop placeholders to speed up your workflow? In this article, we’ll show you how to use Photoshop placeholders and save yourself time. First, let’s talk about what a placeholder is. A placeholder is a digital image or text that you use in your Photoshop work to help you remember what you need to edit next. For example, if you’re editing a photo of a person, you might use a placeholder for the person’s head. By using placeholders, you can quickly access the images or text files that contain the information that you need to edit your photo without having to search through your file folder for them. To create a placeholder in Photoshop, open the file that contains the information that you want to remember and click on the “Placeholder” icon located in the toolbar (see image below). Once the “Placeholder” dialog box has opened (see image below), type in the name of the placeholder (in this example, we’ll call our placeholder “Head”), select an appropriate size for it (in this example, we’ll choose “Small”), and click on OK. Now every time that you need to access the information contained in our “Head” placeholder, all we have to do is open Photoshop and click on its name in the toolbar (see image below). This will open our “Head” placeholder with whatever information was contained within it when we last used it. If we want to replace one of our placeholders with another one, all we have to do is drag and drop its name from the toolbar into any open document window (or onto an existing photo or graphic). Once our new placeholder has been placed where we want it, we can rename it by clicking on its name from within any document window and typing in a new ..
