Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

“Saving Palette Locations,” is fine and dandy if you are the only one working on your computer. But, what if other people use your computer and you don’t have separate user accounts set up? Suppose that one of them likes to close all the palettes and use them only when she needs them. That could really mess up your workspace. Also, suppose that you are a very creative person and you like to do several different kinds of projects — brochures for Company A, photo retouching for Company B, and creating Web graphics for your own Web site. These different kinds of projects use different palettes. You may want to set up your workspace very differently depending upon the type of work you’re doing on a certain day.

Ordinarily, you would have to rearrange palettes and move everything around until you’re satisfied and ready to work. This gets pretty tedious if you are working on one type of project on Monday, but another type of project on Tuesday. However Photoshop takes all the tedium out of setting up workspaces by remembering palette locations for you. To create a custom workspace:

Position and group palettes where you want them, close palettes you don’t need, and dock any palettes you would like in the Palette Well.





Choose Window>Workspace>Save Workspace.

The Save Workspace dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 2-7.




Figure 2-7: Enter a name for your workspace in the text box, and then click OK.






Type a descriptive name for your custom workspace in the Name text box.





Click OK.

Create as many workspaces as you need. When you want to load a workspace, choose Window> Workspace and then choose the custom workspace you want to use from the bottom of the Workspace submenu, as shown in Figure 2-8.

Figure 2-8: Choose a custom workspace from the bottom of the Workspace submenu.

If you ever want to delete a workspace, choose Window>Workspace>Delete Workspace. Then, select the workspace you want to delete from the drop-down list and click Delete.