Change your WINDOW VIEWS

Photoshop enables you to open one image or multiple images at one time on the screen. You can then view and compare your images to see which one is the best of the group. 

The default setting for Photoshop automatically opens multiple images as separate tabs in one window. Tabs are useful to quickly change from one image to the next, by simply clicking the named tab. You can select one image and open it in a separate window while leaving all the others as tabs in the group, or view all the images as cascading individual windows. 

You can also tile multiple windows so they all fit on the screen at once. 

You can have two windows of the same image open. Then you can view an enlarged version in one window and the full photo in the other, so you can edit a particular area while still viewing the overall effect on the entire image. 

If you need to compare specific areas on similar photos, open all the photos in one of the multiple views. You can then match the areas displayed in each of the images and even match a zoomed-in location.

 

 

1 Click File.

2 Click Open.

The Open dialog box appears.

3 Shift+click multiple images to select them.

Note: Shift+click selects multiple images listed consecutively. Ô+click (Ctrl+click) selects individual images in the list.

4 Click Open.

The images open in the default tabbed mode.

5 Click any tab to view a different image.

6 Click Window.

7 Click Arrange.

8 Click Float All in Windows.

 

The images open in separate windows cascading down the screen.

9 Click the title bar of one photo to bring it forward.

10 Click Window.

11 Click Arrange.

12 Click Tile.

The images tile across the screen.

13 Click the Hand tool.

14 Click and drag inside one image to move to the bottom right corner.

14 Click Window.

15 Click Arrange.

16 Click Match Location.

All the windows move their contents to display the bottom right corner of each image.

TIPS

Try This! 

With multiple images open, click Window -> Arrange Tile. Photoshop automatically tiles all the open images at a size to best fit the screen. 

Did You Know? 

If you zoom in on one image when you have multiple images open, and then tile the windows, you can click Window -> Arrange -> Match Zoom to zoom the same amount on all the windows. 

More Options! 

You can drag one or more windows to a second monitor. You can then have all your tools and panels on one monitor and all your images on the other, or one version of an image on one monitor and an edited version on the other.