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What you can do in Illustrator is create your own custom workspace. Now, the reason you might want to do that is because, if you're like me, you often have different clients who have different needs. For example, I might want to work on some artwork for a coloring book and I don't need to see the type tools and I don't want to see anything else but the tools that allow me to add colors, or I might just want to work on some outlines for a magazine cover or some layout and I want all my type tools available to me, so I can change those workspaces so I can grab the tools I want and see the ones I want and get rid of the ones I don't want to see. I can always go back and forth. Now, before I show you how to make and delete your own workspaces, let's talk about some of the ones that come with Adobe Illustrator. They're located right here, under the window menu, under workspace. As you see here, we have one called basic, which you're looking at right now, where everything is pretty basic. We have one called panel, which will expand your panels for you. We also have one called type, which will pretty much focus on a type workspace environment, where you can focus on creating type, paragraph styles, all that kind of stuff. Now let's go ahead back to the basic and talk about how to create our own custom workspace, give it a name, and also how to get rid of it. So let's go ahead and talk about that one I mentioned earlier, where I just want to focus on colors, so I'm going to click on my swatches and I'm going to tear that guy off and put him over here. And let's go and grabÉlet me go ahead and collapse thatÉlet's grab the gradient and we're going to tear this guy off and put him over here as well as I'm going to put that over there. Let's go now and grab this guy and we'll take our color guide and throw him over here as well, and we'll grab our color, slam him over here, and last but not least, let's go ahead and change our brushes. We'll grab our brushes and throw those down here as well. So I have control over what I want to work with, but I don't want to have to constantly do this over and over again. I want this to be a workspace that will snap to attention when I say so, so I'm going to go to my window menu, go to workspace, and choose to save this workspace and I'm going to call it Color Master. Now I'll click okay and I'm going to go back to a basic workspace and then I'm going to choose to open up my color. So let's make believe it's tomorrow and I'm having my coffee and I'm having a good time and I'm going to do some color work, so I'm going to go to window, workspace, Color Master, and now the workspace that I selected is open. I can do what I need to. Now let's say I don't want to work with that anymore. I'm going to get rid of it. So I'm going to go to workspace once again and I'm going to choose to manage workspaces. Once I have selected that, I can choose from options. If I had more than one workspace in this list, I can click on it one time and now I can go ahead and click on the garbage can and that workspace is now deleted. I can click on okay and you'll notice that the workspace still stays here. Well, it's gone but it's not going to get rid of it right away. What you have to do is once again go back to another workspace and you'll notice that the Color Master is no longer available to you. So making your own workspaces can really save you time in the long run, so what I suggest you guys do is open up your copy of Illustrator when you have some spare time, take a few moments to think about the work flows that you might engage in on a day to day basis or a client by client basis, and create a couple of custom workspaces so you can quickly get to the tools you need when the client calls on you.