I’m working on my own forum and since I had to create a Photoshop file for myself, why not sharing it with others who might need it?
I’m using artboards to make it easier to work on all files at once and then easier to export them all with a single “click”. Each artboard has guides (horizontal and vertical) aligned to the center of the artboard.
If you find something that’s not working or is wrong, feel free to share it.
Discourse Site Logo Template.psd.zip (15.1 KB)
Wouldn’t it be better to use an illustration package (e.g. Affinity Designer, Adobe Illustrator) to allow perfect scaling of all assets and keep everything in vector format until the very final export?
Maybe I’m not so familiar with Photoshop …
I have Affinity Designer, but I rarely use it. I don’t have Illustrator.
Photoshop is just the tool I’m comfortable with and there’s the artboards feature, which I don’t know if AD or AI have? That makes it super easy to see all images in a single project, but also export them at once.
Yes, but you can still import vector files that are editable outside Photoshop. And as long as your original files are big enough to begin with, I don’t see it as an issue that it is raster. I tend to use vector only for things that I’m sure I will eventually need to resize. In this case, I don’t think a forum logo will ever need to be 5000px tall or wide, for example.
