ptg 98 Chapter 5 B In the New Workspace dialog, enter a Name for your workspace and check either or both of the optional features. Saving custom workspaces Now that you have learned how to customize your working environment in Photoshop, the next step is to save theme-related workspaces for dierent kinds of tasks. is will shorten your setup time when you begin your work sessions. A In Photoshop CS5, the current panel locations are included automatically when you save a custom workspace. ★ Optionally, the workspace can include custom keyboard short- cuts, as well as menu sets, which control the color label and visibility settings for menu commands. Your custom workspaces should reect your normal work habits (and by this we don’t mean working late and sleeping late!). For example, to set up a type-intensive workspace, you would open the Character and Paragraph panels and assign color labels to commands that you normally use when creating text. Or to create a painting workspace, open the Brush, Color, and Swatches panels, assign color labels to the brush preset commands, and maybe hide some unrelated commands. To save a custom workspace: ★ 1. Do any or all of the following: Open and position all the panels in the desired locations, panel groups, and docks. Collapse the panels you use occasionally to icons and close the ones you rarely use. Or if you prefer to keep all your panels collapsed to icons or icons with names, set them up that way now. Resize any of the panels, as well as any of the pickers that open from the Options bar. Choose a thumbnail, swatch size, or other panel display options from any of the panel menus, or from any of the menus on the preset pickers that open from the Options bar. Choose Edit > Menus and use the dialog to assign color labels and/or visibility settings to menu commands. Save your changes to a new menu set. (To customize keyboard shortcuts, see “Keyboard Shortcuts” in Photoshop Help; to assign labels, see “Workspace.”) 2. From the Workspace menu on the Application bar, choose New Workspace. 3. In the New Workspace dialog, enter a Name for the new workspace (include your own name, if desired). B 4. Under Capture, if you customized the Keyboard Shortcuts or the Menus, check those options. A i s i s t h e p a n e l s e t u p i n o n e o f o u r c u s t o m w o r k s p a c e s . ptg Workspaces 99 5. Click Save. Your workspace will appear in three locations: the Application bar, the Workspace menu, A and the Window > Workspace submenu. ➤ To edit an existing workspace, choose the work- space to be edited, make the desired changes to the Photoshop interface, then save the workspace under the same name; click Yes in the alert dialog. ➤ On a computer with dual displays, you can distribute freestanding panel groups or stacks between them and save that arrangement as a workspace. ➤ All panels that are open when you exit/quit Photoshop will reappear in the same location upon relaunch. ere is no longer a preference option that lets you turn this feature on or o. ★ To delete a saved custom workspace: 1. On the Application bar, click any workspace except the one to be deleted. 2. From the Workspace menu on the Application bar, choose Delete Workspace. 3. In the Delete Workspace dialog, choose the name of the user workspace you want to get rid of, B click Delete, then click Yes in the alert dialog. Resetting workspaces Say you chose a workspace and then rearranged some panels manually. If you were to switch to another workspace and then back to the rst one, your manual changes would remain (be “sticky”). Follow the rst set of instructions below to restore the origi- nal settings to an individual workspace, or the second set of instructions to restore the default settings to all the predened Adobe workspaces. To reset one workspace: ★ 1. On the Application bar or from the Workspace menu on the Application bar, choose the work- space to be reset. 2. Right-click the name of the workspace to be reset on the Application bar and choose Reset [work- space name] from the menu. To reset all the Adobe workspaces: ★ 1. To open the Interface preferences dialog, right- click a panel tab or icon and choose Interface Options. 2. Under Panels & Documents, click Restore Default Workspaces, click OK to exit the alert dialog, then click OK to exit the Preferences dialog. B In the Delete Workspace dialog, choose the user-created workspace you want to get rid of. A Our new workspace (named “Elaine’s Workspace”) appears on the Application bar and on the Workspace menu. ptg 100 Chapter 5 Using the Application bar ★ Use controls on the Application bar to go to Bridge, arrange and choose options for your document win- dows, and access and save workspaces for Photoshop. A In Windows, the main Photoshop menus also display on the Application bar. In the Mac OS, the Application bar is docked in the Application frame. When the Application frame is hidden, the Application bar is docked below the main menu bar; if you don’t see the bar, choose Window> Application Bar. Using the Options bar You’ll use the Options bar (Window > Options) to choose settings every time you switch tools — and sometimes to change settings while using a tool. B e Options bar is dynamic, meaning its features change depending on what tool is selected and how that tool is currently being used in the document. Your choices remain in eect for each tool until you change them. You can move the bar out of the Application frame by dragging its left edge. A e A p p l i c a t i o n b a r Go to Adobe Bridge View Extras menu for showing or hiding the guides, grids, and rulers Zoom Level eld and menu Displays the Mini Bridge panel ★ Arrange Documents menu for changing the document window layout and choosing zoom commands Workspace menu for accessing, saving, and deleting workspaces Name of the current workspace Screen Mode menu for controlling which interface features display i s t y p e o f a r r o w h e a d o p e n s a m e n u . i s b u t t o n c r e a t e s a n e w p r e s e t ( s e e pages 398–402). A preset picker (click the icon or arrowhead to open it) Tool Preset picker for choosing predened tool settings B i s O p t i o n s b a r i s d i s p l a y i n g s e t t i n g s for the Mixer Brush tool. To close a preset picker or other type of pop-up panel, click anywhere outside it or click the arrowhead on the Options bar. ptg Panels IN THIS CHAPTER The Photoshop panel icons . . . . . . .102 The Photoshop panels illustrated . . .103 6 is chapter will help you become more acquainted with a feature of the Photoshop interface that you will be using constantly as you work: the panels. In the preceding chapter, you learned how to arrange the panels onscreen. Here you’ll be intro- duced to the specic function of each one — from choosing color swatches (Swatches panel), to access- ing and editing masks (Masks panel), to customizing brushes (Brush panel), to editing layers (the indispens- able Layers panel). Step-by-step instructions for using most of the panels are amply provided in other chap- ters, such as how to monitor clone sources by using the Clone Source panel in Chapter 14, and how to style type by using the Character and Paragraph panels in Chapter 20. In some cases, a whole chapter is devoted to the mechanics of using a particular panel, such as the Layers panel in Chapter 8 and the History panel in Chapter 10. You can read through this chapter with or without glancing at or ddling with the panels onscreen, and also use it as a reference guide as you work. e panel icons are shown on the next page to help you identify them quickly. Following that, you’ll nd instructions for using the Tools panel and an illustration of the tools, followed by illustrations and descriptions of the other panels that are used in this book, in alphabetical order. CHOOSING VALUES QUICKLY ➤ You can change numerical values quickly on the Options bar, on many panels (such as Adjustments, Masks, Layers, Character, and Paragraph), and in some dialogs by using a scrubby slider: Drag slightly to the left or right over the option name or icon, as shown below. ➤ To access a pop-up slider (e.g., to choose an Opacity percentage on the Layers panel) click the arrowhead. To close a slider, click anywhere outside it or press Enter/ Return. (If you click an arrowhead to open a slider, you can press Esc to close it and restore its last setting.) ➤ To change a value incrementally, click in a fi eld in a panel or dialog, then press the up or down arrow key. ptg 102 Chapter 6 A When collapsed, each panel has a unique icon. The Photoshop panel icons Each panel in Photoshop has a unique icon. A If you keep the panels collapsed to conserve screen space, you can identify them by their icons. You can also identify collapsed panels via tool tips. e panels are opened individually via the Window menu. (To learn how to congure the panels, see pages 95–97.) USING CONTEXT MENUS When you right-click* in the document window — depending on where you click and which tool is selected — a menu of context-sensitive commands pops up temporarily onscreen. Many panel thumb- nails, names, and other features also have context menus. If a command is available on a context menu (or can be executed quickly via a keyboard short- cut), we let you know in our instructions, to spare you from having to trudge up to the main menu bar. i s i s t h e c o n t e x t m e n u f o r a s e l e c t i o n . i s i s t h e c o n t e x t m e n u f o r a l a y e r m a s k on the Layers panel. *If your mouse doesn’t have a right-click button, hold down Control and click to open the context menu. ptg Panels 103 The Photoshop panels illustrated* Using the Tools panel e Tools panel, which is illustrated on pages 104–106, contains 60 tools and a handful of buttons! Believe it or not, by the end of this book, you’ll be marginally to intimately familiar with most of them. To display the Tools panel if it’s hidden, choose Window > Tools. To choose a tool, do one of the following: ➤ If the desired tool is visible on the Tools panel, click its icon. ➤ To cycle through related tools in the same slot, Alt-click/Option-click the one that’s visible. ➤ To choose a hidden tool, click and hold on the visible tool, then click a tool on the menu. ➤ To select a tool quickly, press its designated letter shortcut (don’t do this if your cursor is in type). e shortcuts are shown in the screen captures on the next three pages. e shortcut for each tool is also listed in its tool tip onscreen. If Use Shift Key for Tool Switch is unchecked in Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > General, simply press the designated letter to cycle through related tools in the same slot (for example, press L to cycle through the three Lasso tools). With the Use Shift Key for Tool Switch option checked, you have to press Shift plus the designated letter. ➤ To use (spring-load) a tool temporarily while another tool is selected, press and hold down its assigned letter key (see the sidebar at right). To learn the function of a tool as you’re using it, read the brief description (tool hint) at the bottom of the Info panel. If you don’t see the tool hint, choose Panel Options from the Info panel menu, then check Show Tool Hints (see page 114). Before using a tool that you’ve selected, you need to choose settings for it from the Options bar at the top of your screen. For example, for the Brush tool, you would choose a brush preset, and choose diameter, hardness, blending mode, opacity percentage, and other settings. If the Options bar is hidden, you can display it by choosing Window > Options (see page 100). e current Options bar settings for each tool remain in eect until you change them, reset the tool, or reset all tools. To restore the default set- tings to a tool, right-click the thumbnail on the Tool Preset picker (located at the left end of the Options bar) and choose Reset Tool from the con- text menu. A Or to reset all tools, choose Reset All Tools from the menu, then click OK in the alert dialog. In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors, you can control whether the pointer displays as cross- hairs or as the icon of the current tool or, for some tools, as a circle either the size or half the size of the current brush diameter, with or without the crosshairs inside it (see page 392). SPRING-LOADING YOUR TOOLS ➤ To quickly access a tool and its Options bar settings temporarily without having to actually click the tool on the Tools panel, hold down its letter shortcut key. For example, say the Brush tool happens to be selected but you want to move a layer, which requires using the Move tool. You would hold down the V key, drag in the document window, then release V. Or to access the Zoom tool temporarily, you would hold down the Z key. ➤ This process is slightly less effi cient if you want to access a tool that shares a slot with other tools (as most tools do). In this case, the letter shortcut accesses whichever tool happens to be visible on the Tools panel. To make this work, you could plan ahead and select the tools that you want to switch back and forth among before using them. A To access these two commands, right-click the Tool Preset picker thumbnail, which is located at the left end of the Options bar. * e 3 D t o o l s , a n d t h e 3 D , A c t i o n s , A n i m a t i o n , M e a s u r e m e n t L o g , N o t e s , a n d P a t h s p a n e l s a r e n ’ t i l l u s t r a t e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r b e c a u s e they aren’t covered in this book. ptg 104 Chapter 6 A e u p p e r p a r t o f t h e T o o l s p a n e l Creates rectangular selections Creates oval and circular selections Creates 1-pixel-wide horizontal selections Creates 1-pixel-wide vertical selections Selects areas that it detects within clearly dened shapes Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one that’s clicked Crops the image Slices images for optimization (for Web output) Selects slices by clicking Samples colors from an image Places color sampler (readout) points in an image Measures distances and angles or straightens the image ★ Creates Acrobat-compatible annotations Applies brush strokes Draws freehand lines Changes colors while preserving textures Simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to be mixed and smudged ★ Corrects aws without sampling Corrects aws based on a sampled area Corrects aws based on a selected area Corrects red-eye in portrait photos Clones imagery within or between documents Stamps patterns Click on or near this collapse/expand button to toggle the panel’s double- column and single-column formats. Moves a layer, selection, guide, etc.; also functions as a transform tool Creates freehand selections Creates straight-edged polygonal selections Creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image Tools panel ptg Panels 105 Continued on the following page A e m i d s e c t i o n o f t h e T o o l s p a n e l Lightens pixels Darkens pixels Makes pixels more or less saturated Creates horizontally oriented editable type Creates vertically oriented editable type Creates horizontal type-shaped selections Creates vertical type-shaped selections Selects whole vector paths Selects path segments and points Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths Draws freehand shapes or paths Adds anchor points to a path Deletes anchor points from a path Converts corner anchor points into curve points, and vice versa Creates rectangular shape layers or paths Creates rounded-corner shape layers or paths Creates oval shape layers or paths Creates polygonal shape layers or paths Creates straight-line shape layers or paths Creates layers or paths from custom shapes Creates soft blends of two or more colors Fills similarly colored areas by clicking Erases imagery by clicking or dragging Erases a sampled color to transparency Erases similarly colored pixels by clicking Blurs edges Sharpens edges Smudges colors Restores pixels from a History state or snapshot Paints a history state or snapshot in stylized brush strokes ptg 106 Chapter 6 Use the tool tip to learn a tool name or shortcut. GETTING INFO ON PHOTOSHOP FEATURES ➤ If you’re unsure what an icon signifi es, what a menu is called, or what a panel or dialog feature or tool does, you may get the information you need from the tool tip. Let the pointer hover on the feature in question without clicking the mouse button, and a tip pops up onscreen. (For this to work, Show Tool Tips must be checked in Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Interface.) ➤ Some dialogs (such as Edit > Color Settings) have a Description area that contains information about the option your pointer is currently hovering over. ➤ Keep an eye on the Info panel for color breakdown readouts, document data (e.g. fi le size, color profi le, dimen- sions, resolution), and tool hints (ways to use the currently selected tool). See page 114. ➤ Use the Histogram panel to monitor changes to the tonal ranges in an image as you apply color and tonal adjustments. See pages 203–204. Puts the document into a mode in which a selection displays as a mask and can be edited using brush strokes; when this button is clicked again, the mask is converted back to a selection Displays and lets you change the current Foreground and Background colors Resets the Foreground color to black and the Background color to white Swaps the current Foreground and Background colors Changes the document zoom level A e l o w e r p a r t o f the Tools panel Moves a magnied image in the document window Rotates the image in the document window temporarily (see page 93) . environment in Photoshop, the next step is to save theme-related workspaces for dierent kinds of tasks. is will shorten your setup time when you begin your work sessions. A In Photoshop CS5, the. THIS CHAPTER The Photoshop panel icons . . . . . . .102 The Photoshop panels illustrated . . .103 6 is chapter will help you become more acquainted with a feature of the Photoshop interface. choose options for your document win- dows, and access and save workspaces for Photoshop. A In Windows, the main Photoshop menus also display on the Application bar. In the Mac OS, the Application