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One aspect of Adobe Photoshop you should become familiar with is working with the various palettes. When I launched Photoshop, my screen essentially looked like this, with the exception of this image which I opened up. And you can see that Photoshop has several different palettes allowing you to access different areas and features of the application. If you are not seeing any of these palettes, you can go to the window menu and choose the palette by its individual name. A palette name with a check next to it indicates that palette is currently on your screen. You can close or hide palettes simply by clicking on the close button right here. And if you want to bring that back, of course go to the window menu and choose the name of that palette. You can temporarily hide all of the palettes from your screen by pressing the tab key, and press the tab key again to bring them all back. Pressing shift + tab will hide all of the palettes with the exception of the vertical tool's palette and it's associated options palette. Shift + tab will bring all the other palettes back. I'm going to hide some of these palettes by clicking on their close button here. And I'm going to drag this palette out of the way by clicking and dragging on the palette title bar. This way we can reposition the palettes anywhere on the screen we want. This is actually called the palette group; because notice that I have three different named tabs at the top of my group. So I actually have three palettes in this one palette. Currently I'm looking at my layers palette, and I'm going to drag this out a bit to make it a little bit larger by going down to the lower right hand corner and clicking and dragging out on this little area here to expand my palette. If you want to see another palette all you need to do is click on its tab name and that will invoke that particular palette. We can break off palettes from their groups by clicking and dragging the tab out of the palette group, and this way we can create more palettes on your screen. And conversely, we can add other palettes to a palette group by dragging the palette tab into another group. And when you let go, that palette has been added. Another nice feature of working with palettes in Photoshop is the ability to create long palette groups. And the way I could do that is click and drag one of the palette tabs to the bottom of this group. And notice when I do that, I get this heavy black border at the bottom, indicating that when I let go it will be added to the bottom of this palette. And now if I move this around, notice it's one long palette. I can collapse just part of the palette by double clicking on the palette tab name. And I could collapse all of these palettes by clicking the expand and contract button right here. So I'm going to drag this palette back up to my group here, and add it to this group. Now I want to talk about some of the features of palettes, and that is the palette menu icon. Any of the palettes have this palette menu icon, and if you press on it, it will show you a fraction of menu items specific for this palette. In this case these menu items are specific to my channel's palette, but if I click on my layer's palette, the palette menu icon will give me options specific to my layer's palette. Also notice many of the palette have buttons at the bottom of the palette. And similar to the palette menu icon these buttons are specific for this particular palette. So I can create a new layer by clicking on the new button here. Or if I am in the channels palette, I would be creating a new channel. And also notice that when you have too many items in your palette to be shown, if you have not expanded it in any way, you get a scroll bar here. So we can click and drag on the scroll bar to see the items in a list. Obviously the more you work with Photoshop, the more you will be used to working with palettes.