Save How I’ve Set Up All My Panels?

Once you have all the panels you want open, and organized the way you want them (by the way, you can click-and-drag the Toolbox from the left side of the window [grab it right at the top] and have it either float or dock it with the panels on the right side. You can also click-and-drag the Options Bar from the top of the window and position it at the bottom, if you want), you can save this layout (Photoshop calls this custom layout a workspace) by going to the right end of the Options Bar and clicking on the pop-up menu of workspaces (it probably says “Essentials,” but it could say something else if you’ve already played around with workspaces). From that pop-up menu, choose New Workspace (as shown above), and it brings up a dialog where you can name and then save your layout (you can have multiple workspaces saved as presets, so you can set up one for retouching, one for doing illustration, one for image editing, etc.). Now, to get that exact layout back anytime, just choose it from that same pop-up menu. Also, when you bring up your workspace, you can still make changes on the fly (like changing the location of a panel, or making a panel float). If at any time you want to get back to your saved workspace, just choose Reset from that same pop-up menu (I named my workspace, “Scott’s Workspace” [I know. Real original], and that’s why you see “Reset Scott’s Workspace” in that pop-up menu), and it resets your workspace. Of course, it’s unlikely yours will say “Scott’s Workspace,” but you knew that, right? ;-)