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Customizing the workspace
It''s great that Photoshop offers so many ways to control the display and location of the tool options bar and its many palettes, but it can be time-consuming to drag palettes around the screen so that you can see some palettes for certain projects and other palettes for other projects. Luckily, Photoshop lets you customize your workspace, controlling what palettes, tools, and menus are available at any time. In fact, it comes with a few preset workspaces suitable for different types of workflowstone and color correction, painting and retouching, and so on. Let''s experiment with them.NoteIf you closed 01Start3.psd at the end of the previous exercise, open itor open any other image fileto complete the following exercise.
1. Choose Window > Workspace > Color and Tonal Correction. If prompted, click Yes to apply the workspace.If you''ve been experimenting with opening, closing, and moving palettes, you''ll notice that Photoshop lines up the floating palettes along the right edge of the workspace. Otherwise, it may appear that nothing changes in the workspace. As you''re about to see, however, Photoshop has colored many of the menu commands that are commonly used for color and tonal corrections.2. Click the Window menu, and drag over the other menus to see that color and tonal-correction commands now appear orange.3. Choose Window > Workspace > Web Design. If prompted, click Yes to apply the workspace.4. Click the Window menu, and drag over the other menus to see that Web designrelated commands now appear purple.For times when presets don''t suit your purposes, you can customize the workspace to your specific needs. Say, for example, that you do lots of Web design, but no digital video work.5. Click the Image menu and drag down to see the Pixel Aspect Ratio subcommands.
These subcommands include several DV formats that many print and Web designers don''t need to use.6. Choose Window > Workspace > Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus.The Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus dialog box lets you control availability of the application and palette menu commands, as well as create custom keyboard shortcuts for menus, palettes, and tools. For instance, you can hide commands that you use infrequently, or highlight commonly used commands to make them easier to see.7. In the Menus tab of the Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus dialog box, choose Menu For: > Application Menus.8. Toggle open the Image menu command by clicking its right-pointing triangle.When it''s open you will see the Image menu commands and subcommands, including Mode, Adjustments, and Duplicate.9. Scroll down to Pixel Aspect Ratio and click the eye icon to turn off visibility for all of the DV and video formatsthere are eight of them, beginning with D1/DV NTSC (0.9) through Anamorphic 2:1 (2).[View full size image]
10. Now scroll up to the Image > Mode > RGB command, and click None in the Color column. Choose Red from the pop-up menu.11. Click OK to close the Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus dialog box.12. Click the Image menu command and scroll down: The Image > Mode > RGB command is now highlighted in red, and the DV and video formats are unavailable from the Pixel Aspect Ratio subcommand.
You can save this workspace by choosing Window > Workspace > Save Workspace. In the Save Workspace dialog box, give your workspace a name; make sure the Menus, Palette Locations, and Keyboard Shortcuts boxes are checked; and then click Save. Then, your custom workspace will be listed in the Window > Workspace submenu.
For now, however, return to the default workspace configuration.13. Choose Window > Workspace > Default Workspace. When prompted, click Don''t Save to not save changes to the menu file.
