Interface / Workspaces
Subtitles of the Movie
Different people in different professions have different ways of working, for example in my office right now, I have Godzilla, Star Wars, Star Trek action figures all over the place and my wife is very understanding. Now my accountant on the other hand nothing, just tax books and it makes you cry man. So what I did, I went and bought him a robot, I bought the man a robot because I wanted to liven up that office. So people have different ways of working and I want to show you how to create your own custom workspace in Photoshop. Now when you go to the window menu and you choose workspace you'll see that we have some recommended workspaces provided by Adobe. And these are touching upon different kinds of work environments. For example you might want to work with type today. So I'll go ahead and choose working with type and it's gonna give you a dialog box that says, its gonna change your stuff. So yes I want that. And as you see here look at this, it just gives me all the menus that I need to create and work with type. But if you want to work with your own, you want to create your very own. So what I'm gonna do is first of all I'm gonna go to the workspace menu and by the way you see the ones that have been provided for you are outlined which is kind of cool. So I am gonna go to workspace and I'm going to also go to default workspace to go back to the way Photoshop ships and I'm gonna create my own workspace. Let's say I want to just do compositing, I want to add some special effects like glows and that kind of thing and I don't really need to see the navigator or the histogram or none of this stuff. So I'm going to arrange everything the way I want. I'm going to close that guy, close this one, I don't want you, go away, what I do want is I want my color and I'm gonna put that over here for now. And I'm going to uh resize this and grab this guy here and I'm gonna grab my layers and I want that pone so I'm gonna grab and lock it on to this one. And I don't want my channels, I don't want paths, so what I'm gonna do now is grab these two and I'm gonna move them until I see a blue bar in the bottom and these are the ones that I want to see, these panels. So let's go to window, workspace, save workspace and I'm gonna call this diehard color because my company is called "Die Hard Studio." So what I'm gonna tell Photoshop is I want to save the palette locations, the keyboard shortcuts, but I didn't provide any and any menus. So if I change any of these parameters I want Photoshop to save all these as diehard color, save. So I'm gonna go to a different workspace here, I'm gonna just choose, let's see one of the ones Photoshop gives me, I'll go to image analysis and yes I'll go ahead and have that changed for me and I am going to go back to window, workspace and you'll see on the bottom of the list I have diehard color. Now I earlier I created one called diehard large because I have a 22 inch or 20 inch monitor, I'm not sure what this is and when I want to work on my big monitor then I use this one. So for now I am gonna choose diehard color which we just created and then once again the dialog box will appear. If you don't want to see that just go ahead and click that little thing that says "don't show me this ever again" in your life and then uh Photoshop is going to give me the tools that I asked for. If I no longer wish to have this workspace just go to window, workspace, delete workspace, and then from the list choose the one that you want to get rid of, delete and say yes, and of course it goes away. But it doesn't switch back to the default or anything else automatically, you have to you know go somewhere else first of all. Let's go to automation and then what I'll do is go back to, let me choose something else instead, alright now I can go to uh window here, workspace and then it is gone from the bottom of this list. So once again creating a custom workspace is a way to personalize your own working methods so you can see the tools that you want to work with for this specific task at hand instead of having tools that you don't really need to perform whatever job it is that you're working on.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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