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When your working on your artwork in Photoshop you'll often find that when you have more then one panel out you're eventually going to run out of real estate on your screen. Let me go ahead and just expand some of these guys out so we can give you an example of what I am talking about here. I'm gonna just pull this out and I'll take the uh layers uh panel out and I'll pull that over here and eventually what's going to happen is well you have all your tools out but you have no ability to see your artwork. And that's a pretty dramatic example about what I'm talking about but let me go ahead and put that back and I'll go ahead and just close that up. What if you want to really maximize your real estate, well that's what screen modes are gonna do for you and they are located right down here and you can also access them by simply hitting the F key on the keyboard a couple times. Let's go ahead and talk about them first of all, the first screen mode that we normally use when we are in Photoshop especially on the Mac was simply standard screen mode. Now this was before the new version which we have now. People on the Macintosh had to deal with Photoshop like this where you can see your desktop and it was not fun because I never liked that feeling, I never felt like I was in an application, I was you know hovering on top of something and now I am really appreciative of the new screen modes but why would you use the standard screen mode. This mode is where your gonna go when you want to drag and drop images into one another so you can see your images uh laid out next to each other. For example I can grab this pillow texture and with my move tool here what I can do is click and drag this right on into this new piece of artwork and then when I go to layers I see that I have this artwork here and I can hide it and I can see the other one underneath it. So that's the main reason you would probably want to use this mode when you want to drag and drop images from one image into another. So that is the standard screen mode. Now I'm in maximize screen mode and what we have now is a complete enclosure, we are now longer able to see the desktop. And the cool thing about this mode by the way is if I right click or if I am on a one mouse button, kind of thing with a Macintosh what I can do is control click to get this contextual menu and I can change the color here. So I can choose grey, I can choose custom and I can go to black so you can change this background here for your document window. Another cool thing you can do is you can go to full screen mode with menu bar so you have even more real estate and you still have the menu bar up here and what you can do as well is go all the way out to full screen mode and you have no menu bar. So this is where your really gonna have to have a mastery of your shortcut keys to get to the tools that you want if their up here. Of course at anytime you can always hit F to go back or just go to this menu to go back to the mode that you want to work in. Normally I am in full screen mode with menu bar also what I can do to hide the tools is I can hit the tab key on the keyboard and that gives me one billion percent real estate so I can work on my document and I can also hit shift tab and when I do that I only hide the tools on this side so once again folks you can really work in all kinds of way. Now if you notice that when I put my mouse all the way to the edge here and I move it again those tools go away. So you still have access to your tools. If you really want to work in a maximize mode here. So you have several screen modes that will help you to maximize your working area, also known as real estate and their all very valuable especially the standard mode when you want to start building your composites you can drag and drop everything where you need it and then press F again to go ahead and start to assemble your composition.