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Yet another area inside the Photoshop Interface is your Panels and your Panels are found over on the right-hand side, these fellas right here. Now right now all I see is icons. You may see something a little bit different but right now what I can do is I can hover over top of these Icons and again I get a Tool Tip, so it's kind of like a Mini Toolbox I guess, if you will, here on the right-hand side. But what I can do is, as soon as I click on one, for example I'll click on Layers, I get this Layers fly-out and this is the Layers Panel, or some people call them Palettes, by the way. So in Photoshop the term Panel and the term Palette are sort of used interchangeably. Anyway, here the Layers Panel and what I actually have here is what's referred to as a Panel Group. So inside this particular Panel Group I have Layers, I have Channels and I have Paths and you can see - well, right now Paths we don't have anything inside it, but Channels looks similar to Layers except I have these colored Channels, and you'll remember that we set that back in our Preferences, right? That's kind of the idea. What I can do here is I can start exploring through the different available Photoshop Palettes or Panels via these Icons over on the right-hand side and there are tons and tons of them. And, you know, again, much like your tools. Some of your Palettes you'll use every day. Some Palettes you'll use once in a blue moon, other Palettes you'll never use ever. Again, you'll kind of get a feel for these guys as we go along and you'll get a sense of what Panels do what and you know what Panels offer up the different options that you might be interested in, this kind of thing. What I'm going to do here is I'm going to click on this double-headed arrow, right up in the top right of the Panels and that expands out my Panels into this full mode and now what I can do is I can start exploring through my Panels in greater detail. So again, inside this particular Panel Group I have Colors, Swatches and Styles. Or, for example, down toward the bottom I have Adjustments and Masks and those two fellas sit together, something like this. Now you'll notice, by the way, that there are some similarities between your different Panels. For example, inside Channels - I'll use Channels as an example here - we have some options available inside, sort of the main area I guess you could say, of the Channels Palette and then we have a row of icons across the bottom, right. Now, of course, those icons are going to offer up different items. And then the other thing that we have is a Menu, a fly-out menu, in the Panels top-right corner, and go ahead and click on that guy and that menu's going to offer up, again, additional commands and settings. Now every Panel has the same sort of set up, or they're arranged in a similar way. For example, let's compare Channels to Masks, so inside the Masks Panel again I have sort of a main work area, inside the middle and then I have a row of icons across the bottom. Now mine are all grayed out right now. And then I have a menu up in the top right corner. And again, you'll see this theme sort of play out throughout all of the different Panels inside Photoshop. Again, there's a main work area, icons and a menu. I hope that's all good. Now the other thing that I can do here is I can collapse my Panels back down to icons just by clicking on this double-headed arrow and then if you want you can bring your cursor right over the right-hand edge and then drag your Panels out just a little bit, so now I can see the actual Panel Labels if you will and then I could pop these guys open, you know, something like this. So there's lots of different ways, I guess you can say, to work with your Panels, so hopefully all good. So I think what I'll do is I'll collapse my Panels all the way down to icons. There are more Panels available to us here inside Photoshop than we can initially see. Again, similar to the tools inside the Toolbox. If you want to find your entire laundry list of Panels here inside Photoshop just head to your Window Menu and inside the Window Menu I see all kinds of Panels. For example, here's History. I could click on History and that opens up the History Panel and inside the History Panel Group we have History and Actions, right? So, that's the idea. So there's lots and lots of Panels available. And, by the way, to collapse down these fly-outs - I forgot to show you this - you can click on this little double-headed arrow here and that'll essentially collapse the Panel fly-out back down to the icon. Again, if you want you can explore through all of your Panels inside the Window Menu. Here's another one, there's Paragraph and that gives me text-related options, right? Character and Paragraph. And again, you can compress this guy down or collapse this guy down just by clicking on that double-headed arrow. Lots to explore here related to your Panels.