The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up Your Photoshop Workspace
Join Dave Clayton for his ultimate guide to customizing Photoshop to maximize your workflow. In this class you’ll learn how to customize Toolbars, create custom Workspaces, manage fonts, customize shortcuts, as well as gain understanding of key preference settings and how to find help and learn right within the program. By the end of this class you’ll be a master of Photoshop and have the skills to make it work for you.
Release Date: 2023-04-06
Lessons
Introduction
Dave Clayton introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 1 mins 50 seconds
Opening Photoshop
Start at the beginning with opening Photoshop and seeing what is available to utilize.
Duration: 8 mins 22 seconds
Customizing General Preferences
There are a lot of useful customizations you can make in the General Preferences.
Duration: 23 mins 50 seconds
Interface, Workspace, and Tools
Moving on from the General Preferences, Dave takes you through key tweaks you can make on several more tabs.
Duration: 26 mins 53 seconds
File Handling, Export, Performance, Image Processing, and Scratch Disk
Working down through the Preferences, Dave covers File Handling, Export, Performance, Image Processing, and Scratch Disk.
Duration: 17 mins 36 seconds
Customizing the Remaining Preferences
Dave works through the remaining panels in the Preferences.
Duration: 26 mins 11 seconds
Customizing Toolbars
There’s a lot of control over how you configure your Toolbars.
Duration: 6 mins 45 seconds
Creating Custom Workspaces
As you customized your Toolbars you can move on to creating custom workspaces for different tasks.
Duration: 3 mins 56 seconds
Displaying Images
There are a number of ways image documents can be displayed.
Duration: 2 mins 52 seconds
Customizing Shortcuts
There are a lot of keyboard shortcuts built into Photoshop, but you can even customize them further.
Duration: 10 mins 27 seconds
Using Plugins
Plugins are very useful additions to Photoshop.
Duration: 3 mins 12 seconds
Managing Presets and Fonts
Leverage the power of presets and become master of your fonts.
Duration: 9 mins 6 seconds
Exploring Help
Don’t overlook the usefulness in the Help menu.
Duration: 4 mins 24 seconds
Creative Cloud Panel
This panel is always available to you and is super helpful.
Duration: 6 mins 42 seconds