Pre-pro Prep
If my experience with developing rich media in a collaborative environment has taught me anything, it's to keep project assets as organized as possible. Even though the layers' paradigm in Photoshop provides an inherent organizational approach, it can quickly become unwieldy and bloated. A well-structured file folder hierarchy allows for easy access to core project assets like source and reference imagery as well as Photoshop-centric elements such as presets, masks, and displacement maps.