ptg workspaces IN THIS CHAPTER Using the Application frame . . . . . . . 87 Using tabbed document windows . . . 89 Arranging document windows . . . . . . 90 Changing the zoom level . . . . . . . . . 91 Rotating the canvas view . . . . . . . . . 93 Changing the screen mode . . . . . . . . 94 Choosing a predefi ned workspace . . . 94 Confi guring the panels . . . . . . . . . . 95 Saving custom workspaces . . . . . . . . 98 Resetting workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Using the Application bar . . . . . . . .100 Using the Options bar . . . . . . . . . . .100 5 Now that you know how to create and open documents, you’re ready to customize your workspace. In this chapter, you’ll learn about the main features of the Photoshop interface, such as the Application frame and document tabs. You’ll also learn how to change the zoom level and screen mode, rotate the canvas view temporarily, congure the panels, choose a workspace, save custom workspaces, and use the Application and Options bars. In the next chapter, you’ll be introduced to the individual panels, including the Tools panel. Using the Application frame Upon launching Photoshop in Windows, you’ll see an Application frame* onscreen, which houses the Application bar, Options bar, panels, and your currently open documents. A In the Mac OS (unlike in Windows), the display of the Application frame is optional, but we always keep ours showing and encourage you to do the same. Although document windows can be left to oat freely as in older versions of Photoshop, we recom- mend docking them as tabs within the Application Continued on the following page *For the sake of simplicity, we will also refer to the Windows application window as the “Application frame.” A i s i s t h e o n s c r e e n e n v i r o n m e n t f o r P h o t o s h o p i n W i n d o w s . Application bar Menu bar Options bar ptg 88 Chapter 5 To show (or hide) the Application frame in the Mac OS: To show the Application frame, check Window> Application Frame (to hide it, uncheck the command). ➤ To resize the Application frame, drag one of its edges or corners. ➤ To minimize the Application frame in Windows, click the Minimize button; in the Mac OS, double-click the Application bar. ➤ To learn about the Application and Options bars, see page 100. frame. When documents are docked as tabs, it’s easier to arrange and switch among them, and the Photoshop interface is more streamlined. In the Mac OS, we also recommend keeping the Application bar, Options bar, and other panels within the Application frame. If your Desktop is anything like ours, it contains a lot of distract- ing clutter. One of the advantages of using the frame is that it blocks out the Desktop. Secondly, open images are displayed against a light gray background, which provides a neutral backdrop for color work. A And thirdly, when Photoshop is in Standard Screen mode, the viewing area for the document resizes dynamically as you hide or show the panels or collapse or expand the panel docks. A e A p p l i c a t i o n f r a m e i n t h e M a c O S i s s h o w n a b o v e . e d o c u m e n t t a b ( o r t i t l e b a r ) l i s t s t h e le name, format, zoom level, current layer, color mode, and bit depth. An aster- isk indicates the le contains unsaved changes. To close a document, click the X. e S t a n d a r d v e r s i o n o f P h o t o s h o p h a s 2 4 movable panels, which are used for image editing. On most panels, you can enter values or move sliders; a few panels, such as Info and Histogram, serve only to provide information. Application bar Use the Options bar to choose settings for the current tool. ptg Workspaces 89 Using tabbed document windows Whether you’re a Windows or Mac OS user (and in the Mac OS, whether the Application frame is show- ing or not), you can dock multiple open document windows as a series of tabs, and then display any document easily by clicking its tab. To dock document windows as tabs into the Application frame: Do any of the following: To dock a oating document window manu- ally, drag its title bar to the tab area (just below the Options bar) of the Application frame, and release when the blue drop zone bar appears. A If one or more documents are already docked as tabs and you want to dock all oating document windows into the Application frame, right-click a tab and choose Consolidate All to Here from the context menu. B Another method is to click the Consolidate All icon on the Arrange Documents menu (Application bar); the icon is available even when all documents are oating. To set a preference so that all documents you susequently open are docked as tabs auto- matically, right-click any panel tab and choose Interface Options, check Open Documents as Tabs in the preferences dialog, then click OK. ➤ To cycle among the currently open documents, press Ctrl-Tab/Control-Tab. ➤ To turn a tabbed document window into a oat- ing one, either right-click the tab and choose Move to New Window, or drag the tab downward out of the tab area. To oat all currently open document windows, on the Arrange Documents menu on the Application bar, click Float All in Windows. To dock one oating document window into another, drag its title bar to just below the title bar of the other window. Note: We don’t recommend oating document windows when documents are also docked as tabs in the Application frame, because if you were to click in the frame, any oating windows would be obscured behind it. A To dock one oating document window as a tab manually, drag its title bar to the tab area of the Application frame, and release the mouse when the blue drop zone bar appears. B To dock all oating windows into the Application frame, one method is to right-click a document tab and choose Consolidate All to Here. ptg 90 Chapter 5 Arranging document windows By clicking dierent icons on the Arrange Documents menu on the Application bar, you can quickly display multiple documents in various tabbed layouts, such as two documents arranged side by side or vertically, or four or six documents in a grid. To display multiple tabbed document windows: On the Application bar, click the Arrange Documents menu icon to open the menu, then click one of the available icons (the avail- ability of icons varies depending on how many documents are open). A ➤ If any open documents are oating when you click an option on the Arrange Documents menu, they will be docked as tabbed windows automatically. Just as eortlessly, you can go back to displaying one document at a time. To display one tabbed document window: Do either of the following: Right-click a tab and choose Consolidate All to Here from the context menu. On the Arrange Documents menu on the Application bar, click the Consolidate All (rst) icon. A To arrange these tabbed documents in quadrants, we clicked the 4-Up icon on the Arrange Documents menu. DISPLAYING ONE IMAGE IN TWO WINDOWS To open a second window for the same document, choose New Window from the Arrange Documents menu. You could display the document at a different zoom level, turn View > Proof Colors on for one document but not for the other, or choose different Proof Setup menu settings for them. ptg Workspaces 91 Changing the zoom level You can display the whole image in the docu- ment window or magnify part of it when you need to work on a small detail. e current zoom level percentage is listed in four locations: on the Application bar, on the document title bar or tab, in the lower left corner of the document window, and on the Navigator panel. Note: For smoother and more continuous zoom- ing, check Animated Zoom in Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > General, and check Enable OpenGL Drawing in Preferences > Performance. e latter preference must also be checked to use the Scrubby Zoom feature, which is discussed below. For the other Zoom preferences, see page 386. To change the zoom level using the Zoom tool: Do any of the following: Choose the Zoom tool, then check Scrubby Zoom on the Options bar. In the document window, drag immediately to the right to zoom in A or to the left to zoom out.* ★ ➤ To spring-load the Zoom tool with its current settings, hold down Z. In the Zoom Level eld on the Application bar or in the lower left corner of the document window, enter the desired zoom percentage. Right-click in the document window and choose a zoom option from the context menu. Click a zoom button on the Options bar: Actual Pixels to set the zoom level to 100%; Fit Screen to display the entire image at the largest size that can t in the window; Fill Screen to have the image ll the window (only part of the image may be visible); or Print Size to display the image at an approximation of its print size. SHORTCUTS FOR ZOOMING IN AND OUT Windows Mac OS Zoom in incrementally Ctrl- + (plus) Cmd- + (plus) Zoom out incrementally Ctrl- – (minus) Cmd- – (minus) Zoom in Ctrl-Spacebar click or drag Cmd-Spacebar click or drag Zoom out Alt-Spacebar click or drag Option-Spacebar click or drag Actual pixels (100% view) Ctrl-Alt-0 (zero) Cmd-Option-0 (zero) Fit on Screen Ctrl-0 (zero) Cmd-0 (zero) Note: e zoom shortcuts also can be used when some dialogs are open. A With the Zoom tool and Scrubby Zoom checked on the Options bar, drag to the right to zoom in (or to the left to zoom out). * e A n i m a t e d Z o o m f e a t u r e k i c k s i n i f y o u d o n ’ t d r a g i m m e d i a t e l y ( w h e n s c r u b b y z o o m i n g ) . I f y o u w a n t t o p r e v e n t t h i s , u n c h e c k t h e Animated Zoom preference. To change the zoom level without scrubby zooming, click to zoom in or Alt-click/Option-click to zoom out. ptg 92 Chapter 5 Using the Navigator panel, you can change the zoom level of an image. And when the zoom level is greater than 100%, you can also use the panel to move the image in the document window, to bring an area you want to edit or examine into view. To change the zoom level or move the image in the window by using the Navigator panel: 1. Display the Navigator panel. 2. To change the zoom level, do any of the following: Ctrl-drag/Cmd-drag across an area of the image thumbnail to marquee it for magnication. Type the desired percentage in the zoom eld, then press Enter/Return. Or to zoom to a per- centage while keeping the eld highlighted, press Shift-Enter/Shift-Return. Drag the Zoom slider. Click the Zoom Out or Zoom In button. 3. If the zoom level is above 100%, you can move the image in the window by dragging the view box on the panel. A Another way to move a magnied image in the docu- ment window is by using the Hand tool. To move a magnified image in the window with the Hand tool: Choose the Hand tool (H) or hold down the Spacebar for a temporary Hand tool, then drag in the document window. Note: If the document is in a tabbed window in the Application frame and is magnied, you can overscroll it — that is, drag it farther o to the side than you can in a oating window. ➤ You can also move a magnied image in the doc- ument window by clicking the up or down scroll arrow in the lower right corner of the document window. Or to move the image more quickly, drag the horizontal or vertical scroll bar. MATCHING THE ZOOM LEVEL OR LOCATION If multiple documents are open in Photoshop, from the Arrange Documents menu on the Application bar, you can choose Match Zoom to match the zoom level of all the windows to that of the currently active image, or Match Location to synchronize the position of all the images in their windows, or Match Zoom and Location to perform both of those functions at once. FLICK PANNING If the image is magnifi ed and you’re working on an OpenGL system, try this: Do a quick little drag in the document, then release; the document will fl o a t a c r o s s t h e s c r e e n . C l i c k o n c e m o r e t o s t o p the motion. For this nifty little feature to work, Enable OpenGL Drawing must be checked in Edit/ Photoshop > Preferences > Performance and Enable Flick Panning must be checked in Preferences > General. A Use the Navigator panel to change the zoom level of your document and, if the image is magnied, to move it in the window. View box Zoom Out button Zoom In button Zoom slider Zoom e l d . ready to customize your workspace. In this chapter, you’ll learn about the main features of the Photoshop interface, such as the Application frame and document tabs. You’ll also learn how to. the individual panels, including the Tools panel. Using the Application frame Upon launching Photoshop in Windows, you’ll see an Application frame* onscreen, which houses the Application. to do the same. Although document windows can be left to oat freely as in older versions of Photoshop, we recom- mend docking them as tabs within the Application Continued on the following