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Hi , Welcome back to the Photoshop Training Channel.com , I'm Jesus Ramirez , In this video, I'm going to show you how to export layers as files in Photoshop , I'm going to show you three techniques , One technique for older versions of Photoshop, and two techniques for Photoshop CC , Okay, Let's get started , We're going to work with this document , It contains three layers , We have a background layer, this vector graphic with a layer style and this text layer, also , with a layer style , I'm currently working in Photoshop CC, but in older versions of Photoshop, if you want , to export your layers as files, you need to go under File, Scripts, and from Scripts, , select Layers to Files , However, in Photoshop CC, that option is not here , It has been moved to the Export Menu, Layers to Files , So, in older versions of Photoshop, you'll find this under the Scripts Menu , You can select Layers to Files, and from here, you can select where you want to save your files , So, I'm going to click on the Browse button, and I can just save them here under this Export , Files folder and press Okay , Next, you need to give your files a name prefix , By default, you'll see the file name, export files layer , That's the name of the file , You can see that here , Then you can change that if you want to , Next, you can decide which files to save , Base level files only, which means the files that have the eye icon enabled , In this case, we don't need it , All the files are enabled , So, I'll unchecked that, so that all the files are saved, even if they were not visible , Next, you can select a file type , In this case, since we're working with layers that contain transparency, like the arrow , in the text layer, I'm going to select PNG W , I can include the color profile , I, of course, want to keep the transparency, and I want to trim the layers, so that we , only save the areas that contain actual pixels and not a document that's the same size as , the entire canvas , Then I can click on Run and Photoshop will save all the files as layers, and you'll get , a notification once all the files are saved , I'm going to bring up the folder where those files were saved, and you can see them here , You can see the prefix, and you can see the layer name after the prefix , So, if I open them up, you can see them , There they are, and they don't really have a gray background , This is just what my file preview shows as transparency, gray, but you can see that, , in reality, it does have transparency there , And what I'll do now is just delete these files because we don't need them , So, I'll highlight then and press the Delete key and bring this folder down , Now, this is the old way of saving layers as files in Photoshop , Photoshop CC has a new way of doing it, which, in my opinion, is actually better , Let me show you how that works , You can simply click on a layer to select it, and hold Shift to select multiple layers , or, if you want to skip between layers, you can select the layer and press Ctr, that's , command the Mac , And click, and you select non-consecutive layers , In this case, I'm just going to select the top layer, hold Shift and click on the bottom , layer to select them all , And, with the layers that you want to export selected, all you need to do is right click , to the side of any of those layers and select Quick Export as PNG , This window will come up, and we can save the files here , It's the same folder that I used before, and I can click Select Folder, and those files are now saved , If I bring up that folder, you can see that the files are here just as they were before , with the Export to Layers script , The difference is the file name , The file name is simply the layer name plus the extension of the file, . pang , You can actually change how the Quick Export as PNG behaves by changing properties in the , Preferences panel , If you press Ctr K, Command can to Mac, that brings up the preferences window, and under , Export, you can see the options for the Quick Export format , We were using PNG, but I can change it to JPEG, and then I get options relative to that , file type, and if I press OK, you'll notice that this time when I right click, I will , see Quick Export as JPEG and not PNG , I'm going to go back into the preferences panel by pressing Ctr K, Command can to Mac , Under Export, I'm going to change it back to PNG because that's the option that I prefer , Photoshop also allows you to export the files into a folder next to the current document , I prefer to decide where to save my files, so I have Ask Where To Export Each Time selected , You can also decide to save the Metadata into the file and whether you want to convert the , file to sarong or not , If you're creating web graphics, then convert to sarong is okay , So, I'm going to press Okay, and now those settings are applied to my Quick Export as , PNG command , The third and final way of exporting layers into files in Photoshop is by right clicking , and selecting Export As , That brings up the Export As window, and we get a whole lot more options, and we can decide , what to do with each layer , So, I can click on one of layers here on the left-hand side and adjust the properties , So, we have two layers that have transparency , So these two layers I will use the PNG format with Transparency checked, but for my background , layer, since I don't have any transparency, I don't really need to use the PNG format , I can use a JPEG, which will give me a smaller file size , You can see that here on the side, on the right-hand side, how it's 3.1 MB, but if I , change it to a JPEG, it comes down to 1.3, even with a W% quality , So, I can save these files and apply each setting that I like to them , I'm not going to spend time going through all the different settings because, if you , click on this link here, Export Options, that will bring up a page on Adobe's website that , describes every single option in this panel , So, you can even see what all the different re-sample algorithms do , So, I won't spend too much time talking about that, but if you want to know what each of , these options controls, then click on the link , Once you set your options, you can click on the Export All button, and I'll use this file location , Click on Select Folder, and my files are now saved there , If I bring up the folder, you will see that I have my three files , The background is a JPEG , The arrow and the export layers graphics are Pangs, and just like with the Quick Export, , the files take the name of the layer , And, by the way, if you enjoy this tutorial, then don't forget to check out my video on , Photoshop's history log , It's a little known feature that allows you to track all your changes , It's like creating a step-by-step tutorial automatically , Also, if this is your first time at the Photoshop training channel, then don't forget to click , on the Subscribe and Notification buttons , Thank you so much for watching, and I will talk to you again in the next tutorial.
