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Adding Notes
You can attach text notes to images saved in Photoshop format (.psd) to record information about the image for future reference. If you exchange image files with others in a collaborative environment, this can be quite useful. When notes have been added to an image, an icon is displayed in the image that can be hidden, if desired. When you save a file containing notes, they are saved with the file.
Things you might like to store in notes include:
- the web site address of a resource,
- notes about what you did to create the image, and
- a list of tasks remaining to be completed on the image.
The Notes tool is is part of the Eyedropper tool set. You can access the Eyedropper with the keyboard shortcut I. Here are the Tool Options for the Notes tool:
Practice Exercise: Creating, Editing and Deleting Notes
Open Cat.psd by using the File > Open Recent command.
- Click on the Notes tool. If it isn't visible in the Toolbox, hold down the Eyedropper tool until the fly-out menu appears and choose the Notes tool.
- In the Tool Options bar, type your name in the Author field.
- Click inside the image where you want the note to appear. Your image should look something like this:
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At this point, the Notes panel will automatically open. It has a text area for typing your note and the cursor will be flashing. Enter some text in the panel.
Show or Hide Notes
- Go View > Show > Notes. Now the note icon will be hidden. This command toggles the display of the note icon on and off. Repeat the command to re-display the icon.
Add a New Note
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Let's add another note. With the Notes tool selected, click in another part of the image and type some text in the Notes panel.
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You'll notice the second note icon is larger and displays a pencil. This means that it's the active, selected note and is currently editable. Click on the first note to make it the active note then click back on the second note.
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In the Tool Options bar select a different colour for your note's icon by clicking in the swatch labelled Colour. The colour picker will open. Drag your cursor up and down the rainbow-coloured bar until you find a colour you like. Click OK to apply the new colour. Hold the pointer over the note icon. Your name should appear in a tool tip.
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In the Notes panel there are two arrows and "2/2" displayed at the bottom. "2/2" means you're viewing the second of two notes in this image. Clicking the left arrow will display the text for the first note. Since there are only two notes, clicking the right arrow will circle back to the first note.
Move a Note
- Use the Notes tool to click and drag the second note to another location in the image.
Edit a Note
- Click once on the first note to display its content in the Notes panel and edit the text.
- Double-click on the second note. When you double-click, all the text in the Notes panel will be selected, allowing you to replace it with new text.
Delete a Note
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With the second note still selected, click on the Delete button
(trashcan icon) to delete the note.
- To delete all notes at once, click the Clear All button in the Tool Options bar.
- Close your file without saving the changes.
Adding Notes Summary
- Text notes can be attached to and saved with files in the Photoshop (.psd) format.
- Notes are created by selecting the Notes tool, clicking in the image to add the Notes icon, and then typing text for the note in the Notes panel.
- You can set options for author name and the note icon colour.
- The notes icon can be repositioned.
- Multiple notes can be added to an image. Clicking once on a note makes it the active note and its text can edited in the Notes panel.
- The Notes panel displays the total number of notes in the current image and the sequence number of the current note; for example, 1/2 means the current note is the first of two notes.
- The Notes panel has navigation arrows used for scrolling back and forth through an image's notes.
- Notes can be hidden or displayed. They can be individually deleted by clicking the trashcan icon in the Notes panel or all of them can be removed from a document by using the Clear All command in the Tool Options bar.
Adding Notes Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Eyedropper tool (Notes tool is a variation): I
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