I have a special love for Adobe Photoshop especially Photoshop 7. This is a graphics tool you can purchase very reasonably second-hand from sources such as Amazon but it has all the graphics editing power of products that costs 2 or 3 times more.
I’m going to write several how-to articles on Photoshop eventually leading up to how you can build a webpage using this tool. I’ll show you some foundational techniques to start you off on the right foot. This first lesson will be on how to use the “Save Workspace” command in Photoshop.
- As we are working with Photoshop, I’m sure that we’ve all experienced a profusion of clutter from having too many screens and menus opened in our workspace. When it becomes too chaotic, it becomes very difficult to think clearly let alone be creative!
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Step 2
The next step requires some pre-planning. Decide in your mind ideally how you would like to organize your workspace. By this, I mean how would you like to place all the menus you use on a regular basis. I would suggest for now that you double-click on the tab menus to minimize them off so that you can set them up properly in this initial stage. I generally prefer to have the “History”, “Color”, Navigation”, and “Layers” menu stacked one on top of another however you should arrange it based on what you feel is the most efficient way to work with Photoshop.
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Step 3
In the Photoshop toolbar there is a tab called, “Window”. In the submenu, there is an option called, “Save Workspace…”. You should give your new, organized workspace a name. I named mine, “Kai’s Favorite”
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Step 4
Now, whenever your Photoshop workspace becomes disorganized and unmanageable all you have to do is go up to “Window” and then click on your favorite workspace. And then, viola, as though by magic all the menus jump to order. Now, if only there is a command like this for organizing my house!