Cleaning Up Workspace Tutorial

A lot of times when you're working in Photoshop, your screen can get really cluttered with palettes. For those who likes to be clean and organized here are some instant ways to clean up your work area.

1. Hiding your mess: Press Shift-Tab to hide them and Shift-tab to bring them back. The Menu bar, Options Bar and the toolbox will still be visible.

2. Hiding your mess#2: The famous clean-up-your-room-by-shoving-everything-into-the-closet: Press the Tab. Everything including the menu bar, options bar and the toolbox will disappear. The difference about photoshop and reality is that you can make them reappear in an instance: Press tab again.

3. The Smaller Tool Box: Double Click the very top of your Toolbox and it will shrink into a little tab. Need it back, double click it again.

4. The Smaller Palette: You can also shrink your palette. Double click the very top of your palette and it will shrink into a little tab. Likewise, double click it again to bring it back

5. Shoving aside your mess: Hold the Shift Key and click on the topmost bar of your palette and it will snap to the closest edge of your screen (left, right, top, or bottom.

6. Putting your stuff bak to its original place: Here's a simple menu command from having your palettes back to their original place. Just go under the Window menu and choose Reset palette Locations, and all will be right in your world once again (that is, until you mess them up again)

7. Stacking up your mess: You can create a giant palette by draging the NAME TAB (the name not the tab) of one palette to another palette. A black border will surround the top palette. Drop the palette you are draging and the palettes will merge.

8. Stacking up your mess #2: Another way to create a giant palette is by draging the name tab of one palette to the bottom of another. A thin black line will appear. Release the palette and you can create a ultimate palette. Now when you move the top palette all other palettes under it will move too.

Hope this can help you organize your Photoshop work area. Please feel free to add anything that I am missing. Now if only there are shortcuts to help clean up my room...