Defining a custom workspace
When you use Adobe Photoshop 7.0 to do a specific project, you’ll typically make frequent use of some palettes and rarely need others. When you do a different type of Photoshop project, the palettes you use most frequently may change because the nature of the job has different requirements.
You already know that you can close unneeded palettes and open hidden ones that you do need, but with Photoshop 7.0 you can save different combinations of open and closed palettes as workspaces. Painting is a good example of a situation that relies on specific palettes that are not opened by the default workspace definition.
1. | Close the Navigator palette group, so that both the Navigator and Info palettes are hidden. |
2. | Drag the Brushes palette from the palette well in the tool options bar to the center of the work area. Position it so that you can see at least part of the History palette group. Note If your work area size is 800 pixels by 600 pixels or less, the palette well does not appear. Instead, choose Window > Brushes. |
3. | Drag the History palette tab into the Brushes palette. Then click the Brushes tab to bring that palette forward in the palette group.
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4. | Close the Actions and Tool Presets palette group. |
5. | Drag the various palette groups to arrange them along the right edge of your work area, with the Color palette group at the top, the Layers palette group next, and the Brushes palette group at the bottom. (Depending on your monitor display area, the Layers palette group and Brushes palette group may overlap somewhat.) |
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7. | In the Save Workspace dialog box, type Painting_8 (to remind you of the tasks you’ll do in this workspace and the number of the associated lesson), and click Save. You can experiment with different workspaces to see how your custom setting can save you the trouble of closing and arranging palettes the next time you restart Photoshop:
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After you close Photoshop or switch to a different Photoshop project, the Painting workspace remains available in Photoshop for use in future sessions.