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I collaborate with several other artists throughout the country and one of my friends in particular, who lives in Georgia, never ever responds to an e-mail. I don't even know what that's about. So the only way I can get him to see a note in an image that I create in Photoshop is by using the Notes Panel, and when I do that he has to see these notes right here in the interface. The Notes Panel is located, of course, in the Window Menu and you'll see Notes right here, and it opens up this little Panel. I'll get back to that in a moment. This is a really great way to absolutely make sure your art department, or your client, or your partners in crime when it comes down to creating artwork, see your notes. There's no excuse because they're right there and they can't miss them. The cool thing about these is that I can hover my mouse over a note, like so, and I can see who it's from. This one's from the Boss of You. This one is also from the Boss of You, because the color is the same. Also, this one is from the art department. So I'm going to double-click on this note here and let's see what it says. Double-clicking, by the way, opens the Notes Panel for you automatically so you could either go to the Window Menu, or simply double-click on a note. This is, by far, the faster way to read a note. This one says, "I want more debris. No, I want a lot of debris." So the boss wants me to add a lot of debris to this tornado picture, of course, from the good people at photospin.com. I can go and see what the next note says by either double-clicking on the note, or I can navigate through the notes by using these arrows. So let's go ahead and see what the next note says. Yet again, another note from the Boss of You. "By the way, no rays. Have a nice day." Wow. OK. And now, let's go see what the Art Department wants. "Dude, we don't like lights. That is all." Now as a side-note, I used to work in a very corporate environment and we used to always get yelled at in the art department because we had the lights off. Nobody understands that artists don't like light. It's easier to see the screen and the artwork in a dark environment, so I just helped out all the artists in the world just now by saying that in this tutorial. Now, let's go ahead and find out how to add a Note of our own. If you look over here in the Tools, typically under the Eye Dropper Tool, you'll see that we have the Note Tool. With this I can click anywhere in the artwork and then I'll see a Note Icon with a pencil. I can then type up here who it's from, so I can say The Mail Department, or whatever, Mail Room. I can give the Mail Room its own color, let's say green, and I can type a note right here. Once I'm done, I simply click on Notes in the Notes Panel to close it. Once again, simply click up here on the Tab, and it's closed. So in the future, once someone opens this file they can hover the mouse over it, see who it's from, and double-click to open the Notes Panel and read the note. To delete a note you can click on the Garbage Can, or if you want to clear all the notes, click up here to Clear All. And that is how you can use the Notes Panel to write notes and especially to people who don't check their e-mails so that they have absolutely no excuse for not knowing what you want them to do in an image.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop CS4
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33956
ISBN: 1-935320-22-X
Release Date: 2009-01-16
Duration: 9 hrs / 141 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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