Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Do you share Photoshop with various other users? If so, you can share it with those other people while still creating and saving a user-specific workspace for yourself.

Let’s say you work on a computer at a college or university and it is set up so that you need to share it with other students or staff members. Maybe you only have one computer in your home and several users. Will each person need to set up the interface each and every time from the beginning when desiring to use the software? This is not necessary when using Photoshop because the software, properly used, will allow each user to save his or her customized workspace? How, you may ask? All the user needs to do is save each workspace with a unique name.

This procedure will work for every person who uses the computer and they can customize and save every layout they design. It won’t take long to access those layouts, either. When you use Photoshop it will remember all the places where specific palettes have been placed and also can return them to the same location easily. It will be able to remember how the palettes were grouped.

When you are ready to fine-tune your workspace you will want to begin by saving the customized interface. Go to Window>Workspace>Save Workspace. Then you simply label the saved workspace. In this way you will be able to gain access to it quickly.

Anyone else who is sharing the computer and Photoshop with you can set up their preferences as well and if you want to, you will also be able to access each other’s settings. All you do is access the settings from the Workspace menu.

Need to change the size of your work? You can do this with individual or grouped palettes by dragging the bottom of the palette tab to make your work any size you desire. When you utilize this feature you will be able to make use your workspace to the fullest.

If you want to increase the size of your palette’s thumbnails so that you can recognize them quickly and easily, you can use the Layers palette. Find the arrow icon to the right of the palette tabs to open the menu and click.

You can reduce palette messiness if you double-click at the top of the palette group to collapse it to a minimized state.