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Separate and Merge multiple PSDs, keeping large file easy to manage

Webdesign Graphic Design    04 Jan 10    9173 comments

Once a while, your PSD can be very large in size. Sometimes, it's inevitable due to size of the project. Then we are kind of in a dillema. In one hand, you want to keep everything in one place, so that any change can be shown in all layers. In the other hand, one large PSD can be intimidatingly slow.

One of my favorite trick is to split the PSDs to several files, and accessing them separately while designing, while keeping one main file of PSD that contains all the latest update of the layers.

To separate PSD, the easiest way is to

• Delete all uneeded layers
• Save that particular layer in another name

To combine PSD :

• Open both files
• select the layers/groups in the child you want to move to the main PSD, press CTRL for selecting multiple layers and group
• and drag the selected layers to the main PSD
• TIPS: use SHIFT while drag the layers to the main PSD, it will automatically center it and save you effort to position the layers