One thing to know about customizing Photoshop’s interface is that all panels can be detached. In case your Photoshop looks different, let’s go to the top right and hit Reset Essentials. I recommend we start with Essentials so we can customize our interface together. Click through them and notice how your interface changes. If we click on this icon on the top right side, you’ll see several options: Essentials, 3D, Graphic and Web, and so on. Photoshop comes with some workspaces already built-in. Click on any of them and you’ll see the changes immediately. Use Control+K to open up your preferences. In Photoshop, all the panels together make up your workspace which is adjustable in any number of ways.įirst, you can change the color of the program. Basically, this is where you can see and modify the settings for each tool. In this case, we have the move tool active, so the options bar shows us related move settings.Īs you click on other tools, this area changes. The options barĭirectly underneath the main menu, we have the options bar which changes constantly depending on what tool you have selected. Your version of Photoshop doesn’t matter as this menu bar has always been at the top of the program. In your everyday projects, you’ll use it from time to time, but the most important actions have hotkeys and it’s faster to use those rather than the menus. The main menuĪt the top of Adobe Photoshop, we have the main menu system which contains all sorts of options and features. Because the canvas is the most important element, you’ll want to keep your mouse cursor above it as much as possible. It’s more efficient to hit B to enable your brush tool rather than moving your mouse cursor all the way to the left. This area of Photoshop should be accessed 90% of the time by using your hotkeys. This is where you find things like the brush tool, the crop tool, the move tool, the zoom tool, the type tool, the eyedropper, the eraser, and so on. On the left side of your workspace, you have your toolbar. The Layers panel shows various pieces of information regarding what’s happening on the canvas. The Layers panel is the dashboard where you can see information like speed, fuel level, etc. Through it, you can see the most important thing – the road. If you think of driving, you can consider the canvas like your windshield. These two elements are connected and you can’t use one without the other. Currently, we have a single layer called Background laid out on the canvas. Everything you place on the canvas will show up in the Layers panel. You can see it on the right side of your screen, but in case you don’t have it there, Window in the main menu -> Layers. All your images in Photoshop are going to show up here and you can do all sorts of image editing!ĭirectly related to the canvas we have the Layers panel. This is where you draw, paint, or design, and it’s where you should focus 90% of the time. The most important part in Photoshop’s interface is the canvas, where everything happens. Important pieces of the Photoshop workspace
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