Customize Photoshop for a Personalized Workspace (VIDEO)
Photoshop can be bewildering for beginners and experienced amateurs alike because of the vast array of features available. In essence, all this versatility comes at the cost of a confusing workspace that makes your favorite tools difficult to find.
The video below from the popular PHLEARN YouTube channel will help you cut through the clutter, get better organized, and create a streamlined workspace that caters to you specific needs. Instructor Aaron Nace is an accomplished shooter and a post-processing expert who says, “This tutorial guides you through using default settings, adding/removing tabs, grouping panels, and resizing sections.”
Most photographers don’t limit themselves to images of one specific genre or style of editing, which is why Nace demonstrates how to create and save personalized workspaces for different tasks, thereby ensuring that your Photoshop tools are right at your fingertips whenever you need them.
Another important consideration is understanding how to reset and lock the workspaces you create for an efficient workflow that delivers consistent results from one session to another. Nace begins by clicking on the Window tab atop the screen and choosing the Essentials option from a dropdown menu that appears.
He then demonstrate how to reset these Essentials and then this is how Photoshop will appeae at first. You’ll notice how all the windows are grouped together at the top of a panel on the right side of your screen. And it’s easy to enable or disable various tools and options.
At this point you’ll be looking at Photoshop’s default settings, and the remainder of the 16-minute video is devoted to creating the workspace (or workspaces) that meet your preferred method of adjusting and enhances images to perfection. There are many more Photoshop and Lightroom how-to videos like this one on the popular PHLEARN YouTube channel.
And be sure not to miss our earlier tutorial featuring a notable German expert who demonstrates how to use Lightroom’s Color Contrast tools to rehabilitate dull nature and landscape photographs that lack impact.
