Experiment on your own by customizing the palettes into an arrangement you think you’ll like. If you work with many large images you may prefer to keep your palettes collapsed along the bottom edge of the Photoshop workspace to give you the maximum space for documents. If you use multiple monitors, you may want all the palettes joined into one and moved onto a second monitor.
When you are happy with your custom arrangement, go to Window > Workspace > Save Workspace. Type a name to identify the palette arrangement, make sure the “Palette Locations” checkbox is enabled, and click Save. Now when you go to the Window > Workspace menu, you will see your new saved workspace at the bottom of the menu. You can choose this from the menu anytime you want to go back to this palette arrangement.
If you’d like, check out some of the other custom workspaces under the Window > Workspace menu. Also practice rearranging the palettes and re-loading the customized wor... Read More
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The Photoshop Palette Well
Next to the Bridge button is the palette well. This is a space where you can keep palettes that you don’t use as frequently or don’t want occupying your workspace. It keeps them easily accessible, but hidden from view until you need them. In the default workspace, you should have title tabs for the Brushes, Tool Presets, and Layer Comps palettes in the palette well. You can drag other palettes to this area and they will remain hidden there until you click on the palette tab to reveal it. When you need access to one of these palettes, just click on the title tab, and the full palette will expand below its tab.
Tip: If you cannot see the palette well on the options bar, you will need to adjust your screen resolution to at least 1024×768 pixels.
Photoshop’s Floating Palettes
Collapsing and Expanding the Floating Palettes When you first open Photoshop, several additional floating palettes are stacked along the right edge of your screen in... Read More
ViNSENTO Uncategorized Photoshop Tips/Tricks
Explore the Photoshop CS2 workspace in this illustrated tutorial.
Let’s start by getting to know the Photoshop CS2 workspace. When you first start Photoshop with the default preferences, you should see something like the screen shot here. If the workspace looks vastly different to you, you’ll want to reset your Photoshop preferences back to default settings. To do that in Photoshop CS2, hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift (Win) or Command-Option-Shift (Mac) immediately after launching Photoshop, then answer Yes when asked if you want to delete the settings file.
CS2 Default Workspace
Illustration shows the Windows version of Photoshop CS2. If you are using a Macintosh, the basic layout will be the same, although the style may appear slightly different.
These are the main counterparts of the Photoshop workspace:
Menu Bar Tool options bar Adobe Bridge shortcut button Palette Well Toolbox Floating palettes
The Photoshop Menu Bar
The menu bar consists of nine menus: File, Edit, Image, L... Read More
ViNSENTO Uncategorized Photoshop Tips/Tricks
1. You don’t need to activate the Move Tool to move layers around. Simply hold down the Control key (for Windows users) or the Command key (Mac users) and click and drag on your layer with the mouse.
2. Are the palettes getting in the way? You can hide them temporarily just by hitting the Tab key. To bring them back, press the Tab key again.
3. To open a document in Photoshop, you don’t need to reach for the File > Open menu option or even press Control+O – you can just double-click on the grey Photoshop window background!
4. If you’re working on a large image such as a photo, you can maximize the available editing area by pressing the F key to toggle between a full screen mode with and without menu bar, and normal editing mode. If you also use tip number 2 above, and the tool shortcut keys, you can do a lot of your work without a menu or palette in sight!
5. You can get precise control over the position of your layers by using the arrow keys on the keyboard to ... Read More
ViNSENTO Uncategorized Photoshop Tips/Tricks
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