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Understanding Workspaces

Lesson 4 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential Training

Mark Wallace

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4. Understanding Workspaces

You can customize Photoshop to your specific needs using Workspaces. In this section, Mark explains how to use and customize your workspaces.

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Understanding Workspaces

Think of workspaces like, maybe, the rooms in your house. So, if you're cooking food, you would go to the kitchen. All the tools that you need to bake a cake are in the kitchen. If you need to work on your car, you go to the garage and all the tools you need to work on your car are in the garage. Well, the same thing can be true of Photoshop. We can set up specific workspaces to do specific things. And so, up in the upper right hand corner of the interface, there's this little square box right up here. And so, if you click on that, you'll see different workspaces. And so, by default, Essentials is chosen. Previously, we chose Photography. So, I'm gonna click on that and you can see that it remembers whatever you've done in that workspace. So, let's say I have clicked on the Histogram and I have clicked over here to Adjustments and then I change to a different workspace and I do some things and then I come back to the Photography workspace. You'll see that all my stuff returns and I can...

work on that as well. So, the nice thing about workspaces is that you can just totally mess up the interface and then return to where you need to go. So, on the sides of each of these panels and docs and things, you'll notice if you hover over them then your cursor changes to little arrows, that means you can click and drag to make those wider. And on some of these, you can click and drag them out. So, you can see a little panel, you can click that out. You can move it around. You can, maybe, drag out this thing. So, it's just a little floating dock here. Maybe, I take this and I make it really big. I move this over here and maybe I grab this and I move it to where I want it to go. So, now it's floating over here but I want it to be two things instead of one. So now, I've totally changed this workspace. If I go back to, let's say, a motion workspace that's there. But look, when I come back to my Photography Workspace that I messed up, it's exactly how I left it, all messed up. But what happens if I need to put this back? If I'm like, oh no, I accidentally messed it up. No problem. Just go up to the workspace and then say, Reset Photography. If I click that, it sticks it all back where it was when I started. And so, you can undo your mistakes. The other thing that's really neat is that you can go in and you can... Let's say I change my navigator, this little panel over here. I put it up here. Maybe, I drag these tools over here. And that's the way I like to work. I can go up here and I can say, New Workspace. I can click on there and I'll say, Mark's Workspace. And I wanna save the menus and the toolbar and the keyboard shortcuts. Let's say I wanna save everything that I've saved up or set up. Now, I'll hit save. And now, even if I move this around... So, I'll do this. Whoops. If I say reset Mark's Workspace, it puts it back where I had it before. So, I can create workspaces that work specific to the needs that I have for my own work.

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