Create your own CUSTOMIZED WORKSPACE

The workspace in Photoshop refers to the layout of the different panels and tools on your screen. With all the functionality built into Photoshop, your screen area can easily become cluttered. You can design and save a workspace to fit your needs for a particular project, with only the items that you use most. You can hide others or collapse them into buttons to save space. You can even create multiple workspaces with different tools for different types of projects, such as one for painting, one for design, and one for photography. 

You can move and resize individual panels. You can move the single-column toolbar, undock it, or change it to a two-column panel. When you select Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar from the View menu, your image appears as large as possible with all the tool panels available.

You can save a custom workspace and even save the keyboard shortcuts and/or menus for that workspace. 

You can start from scratch or you can modify any of the Photoshop preconfigured workspaces. When you alter any existing workspace, your changes are automatically saved.

 

 

1 With an image open, click View.

2 Click Screen Mode.

3 Click Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar.

A The area on-screen maximizes to fill the space.

4 Click here to reduce the panel groups to buttons with names.

5 Click here and drag the History button onto the panel group.

6 Click here and drag the Properties button to the bottom of the panel group.

7 Click here to change the width of the toolbar.

TIPS

Did You Know?

You can delete any workspaces you do not need. First select a different workspace as in the task to make it active. Then click Window -> Workspace -> Delete Workspace. Click the Workspace drop-down menu in the Delete Workspace window that appears. Select the name of the workspace to delete and click Delete. Click Yes in the warning dialog box that appears.
 

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You can revert any changes to a workspace back to the original default settings. With the workspace you want to revert active, click Window -> Workspace -> Reset Workspace Name.
 

Important!
 

Restarting Photoshop while pressing and holding Ô+Option+Shift (Ctrl+Alt+Shift) as you launch the
application also resets all the original workspaces. However, this action also deletes all your personalized workspaces as well as any other custom settings.