Welcome to this new project.
In this one we're going to be creating this info graphic.
Now what I want you to do is create this info graphic for your town.
Sandy misses where I live.
And while you could just copy me and do what I do I think it's better if you create something for your
town so you can go on Google Maps.
You can take a screenshot of Google and and use it for personal use for a project like this and you're
totally fine.
There's also a Web site called open street maps.
Dot org that is a copyright free Web site that you can actually download and take screenshots of the
maps and use it for commercial purposes.
If you're interested there's a couple good things I wanted to show you.
In this project that I'm doing that will help with workflows for you.
One is that I have this this layer right here with these colors.
I think I just searched for 80s neon colors on google and found this image and I brought it in and it's
not in Ann Arbor it I just placed it to the outside of an art board.
The cool thing about this is that it's not going to save in our image when we export these art boards
or anything it will.
It will be here if we want to use it as a reference for selecting colors.
And this is what I often will do for different brands or my own brand.
If I have a color palette I'll add it to my project and just use it here kind of as a one time thing
rather than adding it to my color swatches up here or in my library which is is definitely a great idea
if you're using that over and over but for a one time project it makes sense just to to have it as reference
here on the side and you can do that with art boards.
You can't do this if you're not using the art port feature.
All right.
So let's get into it.
This is pretty easy but there's a couple other things that I think you'll be excited to learn.
So there's two things that I'm doing with this this map Layer one is it is the sort of background layer.
It's very faint in the background over here.
But let's just create a solid color.
We're going to use this blue right here and you can see that you know that's our blue now.
Let's actually move this over to the right hand side of this art board so we can see it.
Now this Google map we're going to copy this layer command Jay just to create a copy but this bottom
layer we're just going to set it to an overlay and then drop that opacity to 20 and 25 something very
light like that and we're going to move it there and then we're good to go so we're going to lock that
in place we're going to lock our background in place as well.
Now we have this earth copy here.
And what I want to do is create this sort of circle out of it.
Now there's lots of different ways we can do this.
We could take our marquee tool right here make a selection copy and paste it and hey there we have a
circle.
But that's kind of permanent.
We could also try to create a a layer mask for a circle.
We could again take our marquee tool create layer mask and then that's editable.
There's a better way to do this.
We have this frame tool right here this is a relatively new tool in photoshop at least in the past couple
of versions and we can create a round frame or a rectangle frame.
So what I'm going to do is just with this tool selected and the circle actually let's go back and make
this layer a little bit smaller.
Something like this is good so we can see a little bit more in our project right now.
Then take our frame tool and just drag over this.
Now it looks like a square but that's because or a rectangle.
But that's just how the tool looks.
We actually have the ellipse or the circle selected.
And so now this is our frame.
Now with the frame we can actually go in.
We can move.
We can read reach size this actual image.
We can move it around if it's not the exact right placement.
And so this is much more editable and easy to use for.
For this kind of project.
So definitely take advantage of the frame tool when you're doing these kinds of layouts.
Cool right.
All right.
So the next thing we're going to do is add some text so I don't really want to have to type this all
out for you.
I don't think you need to to watch me type it out for you but basically just take in our text tool.
We're going to say welcome to.
I'm using Rockwell font and just you'll kind of see the details that I added I think adding this background
shaped layer right here which is just a pink shape layer.
So we're going to change that to just double click this and choose this pink that's pretty cool.
And we can just now duplicate our text layer.
Just me and Jay that put this down and are over our shape layer.
Saying demas.
Sam Davis is actually a pretty popular well-known town for how small it is.
If you ever saw the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure from the late 80s that kind of popular
visit San Dimas too you know that in pop culture it's zany Miss is also home to Raging Waters which
is somewhat famous water park in southern California.
And while I'm giving you San Dimas facts I'm taking this ellipse tool.
We're going to change the color to this pink
and we're just gonna create an ellipse right here a perfect circle.
We're gonna click and drag with our option key to create a new version.
And for this one we're going to change it to that teal.
So literally just double clicking over here in this window to bring up our color picker and we're using
the same font for all of our projects right here for all of our our text layers.
I definitely recommend not using more than two fonts per project more than two starts to look a little
bit immature and so using the same far and then just playing with the style of the font is a good idea.
Now you can easily just align these layers by selecting both of them and aligning them center and horizontal
that way if if that's a little easier for you.
But anyways.
Yeah.
So Sandy mess we've got raging waters and then also the Tories were a popular band in the early 2000s
back in the pop punk era and they are from Sandy mess.
They went to Sandy his high school and they wrote a song called Sandy Moss high school football rules.
So pretty cool stuff there.
All right.
The next thing we want to do is create this map pin.
So there's a couple of things that you need to keep in mind for this.
We're going to create a little dot with our lips tool.
So take our lips.
Tool we're gonna make our fill are yellow that we used and R stroke.
Now the yellow is this one right here that I'm using.
And we're just going to create a little circle but then for the line coming out of it I'm going to use
the path tool.
So the path tool without a fill but with a stroke.
OK now I'll show you the reason that was changing that layer.
Let's go to the path tool.
Let's just create our path and then we'll adjust our settings boop.
Let's change our fill To none.
Let's change our stroke here.
And the way you can change it however you want.
Now the reason we do this is because now if we say we group these together put them in a group as pin
and we want to add another pin.
So let's duplicate this group command.
J That group move it around.
Woops we want to actually autos like group so we can select this group and move it over.
Boop boop boop.
But if we want to now make this line a little bit longer we're gonna go back and we could use the path
tool to adjust this.
OK so we're gonna command click this point of the path and now we can move it.
And it keeps the the width of the path the same which is the stroke with and it doesn't affect anything
else.
Now just to show you what would happen if I take a rectangle tool and did it with a rectangle which
is maybe what some people would do let's undo that so if we're off here let's take our rectangle tool
let's create a little line like so now say we rotate this.
We have it like this.
And then we want to make it bigger or smaller.
You notice that the whole line gets thicker or not as or skinnier depending on how big you make it.
So using the path tool really is the are the pen tool is really the best tool for creating those kinds
of lines.
If you're going to be making them longer or shorter for a project like this.
So I think I'm going to leave it at that.
Yeah you kind of know you know how this works for this text.
I used a text box and in terms of just creating a good looking info graphic things to keep in mind is
just having that color palette using the color palette throughout you can see here down here that I
highlight you know a couple of words with the same color that I use for these these circles.
And so just it's really important for you to be cohesive and think about those things.
Simplicity is usually better.
So fewer fonts viewers colors.
That's gonna make your graphics look even better.
So I hope you enjoyed this project.
I can't wait to see your little info graphic for your town.
Make sure to add a couple you know key points or fat fun facts that'll make it interesting and definitely
tag me on social media with this one.
Thanks so much and we'll see you in the next lesson.