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Arranging the Work Area

In Photoshop CS3 just like the earlier versions, Adobe gave the users the ability to set up and save their own custom workspace, you have no limits on saving custom workspaces in Adobe Photoshop.

What does the Workspace in Adobe Photoshop CS3 contain: If you go to the menu bar > window , a sub-menu will appear , that sub-menu is simply everything your workspace contains:

Actions

Animation

Brushes

Channel

Character

Clone Source

Color

Histogram

History

Info

Layer Comps

Layers

Measurement Log

Navigator

Options

Paragraph

Paths

Styles

Swatches

Tool Preset

Tools

1. If you click on any of these menus , a palette will appear on your workspace containing all the options related to that menu.

2. Of course you don't want to open all the palettes together because this will make your working area impossible to deal with, that's why Adobe gave you the ability to bring out what you want from these palettes and hide others.

3. Photoshop Cs3 gives you the ability of auto-hide, or temporarily hide the palettes, to read more about that please visit "Cs3 Palettes" page.

4. Adobe also gives you the ability to save your custom area so that you don't have to waste time setting your workspace every time you open the program

5. Go to Window > Workspace, you're going to find options related to arranging the Workspace:

a)Save Workspace : the ability to save your custom workspace

b)Delete Workspace: the ability to delete your saved custom workspace

c)Default Workspace: setting the workspace according to the default settings that Adobe created for the program.

d)Reset Palette Locations: if you change palette locations while working, you can reset the locations of your palettes as you saved them before.

e)Reset Keyboard Shortcuts : This would bring the Photoshop preset shortcuts as they were embedded in Photoshop, before you applied any change on them

f)Reset Menus : That would bring the menu setting and appearance as it were before you made any changes to it.

Note that if you want more details about the Workspace Submenu, you can go to the Workspace page.