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Because no two people work in exactly the same way, Photoshop allows you to create your own custom workspace. Now, this kind of reflects your personality. For example, I'm a very, very neat and organized person and when I get my mind set to something, it stays that way. If I'm working on a very creative project, like an animation or cartoons, I have action figures all over my office. For example, I am staring eye to eye with Godzilla right now, who is on top of my television, and I have Darth Maul from Star Wars. I have stuff everywhere. I don't even want go into it. But when I'm working on a technical project, such as working on these movies or I'm working on something even more technical, such as a tech book, which takes a lot of focus and attention, I really get rid of those things temporarily. I put them in the closet so I can see only my screen and switch to the left side of my brain, which doesn't get much exercise because creative people stay on the right side of the brain most of the time. So let's go ahead and talk about how to create our own custom workspace. As you see here, I have a lot of panels open, but let's say that I only want to focus on my colors and my layers. I don't want to see the navigator or any of this other stuff, so I'm going to click on the X right here to close those guys and I'm also going to make sure I get rid ofÉI don't want my styles either, so I'm going to get rid of styles. I'm going to click and drag the colors panel right on out of the dock. I'm going to once again do the same thing and grab the swatches and put it down here, and then this gives me a lot of room for my layers. I can really focus on my layers. I tend to work with a lot of layers when I'm doing special effects, so let's go ahead and say that this is what I want here. So I'm going to go to the window menu and I'm going to choose workspace and I'm going to choose to save that workspace, but before I do that, you'll notice that I can also delete a workspace. I can always jump back to the default workspace, which is the one that you received when you first installed Photoshop CS3. I can reset palette locations, reset keyboard shortcuts, and reset menus. I can also use some of the ones that come with Photoshop so they have some for video and film, web design, and what they will do is open and close the specific tools that are related to this task. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to save workspace and I'm going to choose this one, Layers Specific. Now what I can do is make sure that I have capture selected with palette locations, keyboard shortcuts, and menus, which means it will remember everything that's checked here, so I'll go ahead and click save. Now I'm going to go to window, workspace, and I'm going to choose default workspace and then Photoshop is going to put everything back to the default. Now when I go back to window, workspace, and choose my own specific one, Layer Specific, Photoshop will tell me, hey, do you really want to do this? If I don't want to see this dialog box over and over again, I am simply choose don't show me that again and then I can choose yes. I'll go ahead and deselect that for now. Then my custom workspace reappears and now I'm ready to work. So once again, you can make your own custom workspace to pretty much emphasize the task at hand. If in the future you decide you no longer wish to have this workspace, all you need to do is go to window, workspace, delete workspace, and then, in the list that appears, choose the name of the workspace you no longer wish to have and hit delete. Now, when you do this, it's not going to go away right away. What you're going to have to do is go back to a different workspace (for example, I'll go back to default) and you'll notice that in the list here, the one we created is no longer available. So you should definitely create a different set of workspaces for different tasks. It will make your work go by a lot more quickly and you can really focus on what you need to, instead of having to look at all the palettes and panels that you don't want to work with at the moment.