![]() ![]() Within these preferences we can change Photoshops appearance, language, text size and screen mode colors and borders. Panels can also be completely collapsed down to icons using the double arrow button, as seen in the image below:Įdit > Preferences > Interface or hit Ctrl + K (Windows) or ⌘ + K (Mac) ![]() Experiment with your panels until you’ve found a layout which suit your needs. ![]() Any movable panel can be docked into any drop zone location. RELATED: Photoshop Basics: Getting To Know The History PanelĪlternatively, you can have any tools and panels completely free floating.ĭrop zone locations are the bottom, right, and left sides of the interface. Releasing the button will “ dock” it into place. A blue highlighted area, called “ drop zones” will illuminate, indicating that it can be positioned here. You’ll notice that we can move panels back into place by clicking on the top bar, holding down the stylus button while dragging and bringing it to the edge of the window. Moving panels is easy: simply click the darker top bar of a given panel and it will be “ undocked” from its position. PanelsĪll panels, as well as the Tool bar, are movable clickable objects within the interface. Let’s take a more in-depth look into each of these areas. Some of the different things we can customize are as follows: How you choose to customize your workspace will be based on your personal preference. From panels, to menus, and keyboard shortcuts, virtually everything can be reconfigured to suit our needs. Having the ability to customize our workspace therefore allows us to change not only the look and feel, but also creates a more efficient and focused working environment by displaying only the panels and tools we need.Īs creative professionals, we all work differently, want different things, and different ways to work, which is why workspaces in Photoshop were designed to be highly customizable. None of the default workspaces really covers everything we need in our retouching workflows. Window > Workspace > select desired workspace. You can also create new workspaces, modify or delete the existing ones here:Īlternatively, this menu can also be accessed from the Window drop down. You can switch through the different workspaces from the workspace drop down menu in the upper right corner of Photoshop. Looking at the “ Essentials” or “ Photography” workspaces you can probably see several tools and panels which you’ll most likely never use as a retoucher. Default WorkspacesĪdobe by default has created 6 pre-made workspaces for you, which target different creative professionals: On the top, we have our menus and tool properties (A), on the left is our tools bar (B), and to the right are our panels (C). Here we can see the default “Essentials” workspace. ![]()
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