Hide or Close Panels?

You don’t have to work with all your panels open all the time. You can collapse them down to just their icons and names, like you see above center (just click on the two little right-facing arrows in the top right of a panel, shown circled in red above left), or collapse them even further, so only their icons are showing (once you’ve collapsed them, click on the left edge of the panel group and drag to the right until just the icons are showing, as seen above right). Collapsing these panels gives you a larger working area for your images, but your panels are still just one click away (click on any icon and that one panel pops out to full size). If you want to expand all the collapsed panels as a group (like you see above left), click on the two little left-facing arrows in the top right of the panel header. If you actually want to close a panel (not just collapse it; you want it offscreen altogether), click on the panel’s tab and drag it away from the panels it’s nested with (this makes it a floating panel), and now an “x” appears in the top-left corner of the panel. Click on that to close it. To reopen it, go under the Window menu and choose it.