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Switching Your Workspace in Photoshop


Photoshop is no more just a printing guy's delight. Its used by graphic designers, web designers, animators, pre press analysts and digital artsis alike. Everybody has his own favourite menus and keyboard shortcuts. For a photo retouching project, web related features are hardly used. And for a web designer what matters most are animation window, slicing tools etc. For every specific need there is preset workspace in photoshop. By switching workspace you can easily access most commonly used keyboard shortcuts and menus in an instance.All you have to do is go to window menu and select workspace>>"your favourite workspace"For example if you are a web designer just select windows>>workspace>>web design. 

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Now just try various menus and you'll see most of the menu options used by web designers are highlighted in a different color.Just click on layer menu and you'll see some menu items that are common for web designers like "layer based slice" and "smart objects"are highlighted in a purple color.

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Similarly go to file menu and you can see that options like save for web, export etc are highlighted so that your most useful menu options strike your eyes first.

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If you are one of those guys who make a living out of photo retouching, color correction and image manipulation just set the workspace to image analysis.

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Go to image menu and a host of menu options that you use on every other image adjustment are highlighted. That too in a different color from other workspace presets.

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If your work nature make you type a lot of text and you keep adjusting kerning, leading and typographical design just set the workspace to "working with type"

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Now notice options in layer menu that are specific to text editing are highlighted. Also the submenu items under layer>>type are highlighted in a cool red color.

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To switch back to the original state of menus go to window>>workspace>>default workspace.

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Author's URL: Mr. Smarty
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