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BryanDowning
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject: PF FT: Managing Space |
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Tip: Managing Space
I recently spent about a week away from my dual monitor setup and forgot how useful that second monitor really is. I was working in Photoshop on a 17-inch CRT and it was nearly unbearable. I came up with a fairly workable solution.
The first step is to decide which palettes you really need. Then join them all into one movable palette. Then save your workspace (Window > Workspace > Save Workspace...). Then close every palette including the tools palette. Then save another workspace. When you want your palettes out of the way just select your empty workspace! That was my quick solution for the space problem.
Does anybody else have any space saving techniques for single monitor setups?
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Datameister
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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Thanks for the tip! My advice to anyone who never has enough pixel real estate: get a big monitor, if possible. It'll help so much. And don't go with CRT monitors, because as Brian has noted, they are--to put it lightly--terrible.
Only use the palettes you need. For me, that's usually just Layers, Channels, Paths, sometimes Actions, and History, plus the toolbar. When I'm using Photoshop, everything else can be hidden.
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Gallo_Pinto
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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I sit in front of 17-inch (1280x1024) CRT all day with not too many problems.
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BryanDowning
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Dual monitors change lives...
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Gallo_Pinto
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I used to have a 15" CRT. Then I got a 21". It had to be run at a little over 1600x1200 to look really good. Then it burnt out and I was forced to root out the old 15". I felt like I was using photoshop and 3d animating on a game boy.
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teddc
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I have a 19" and 17". Have had for some time. I find it hard now to work on a single monitor
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snarff
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alternatively you could just "shift+tab" to hide/show your palettes 
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BryanDowning
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Gosh, didn't even know that! Thanks! 
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snarff
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eeek! sorry was i stating the obvious?
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stevealmighty
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| snarff wrote: | | alternatively you could just "shift+tab" to hide/show your palettes |
Also, pressing just tab will hide everything except your menu (file, image etc.). Pressing tab hides your pallettes, toolbar and the "status bar" at the bottome of PS. I will use either/or (usually just tab) to hide everything then I'll press the "F" key to change the background. Pressing the "F" key more than once will give you different ways to view your current work. Pressing it once hides the windows photoshop bar (at the utmost top of the screen, the bar that reads Photoshop), pressing it twice will also hide your top windows bar AND your start button and bottom widows bar, giving you even more viewing area on your monitor! I do this and then hit tab to hide everything. Gives me plenty of space to work with, speciall when I'm dealing with larger images. Oh, and at home I've got a 17" crt, and at work I've got a brand new 20.1" lcd @ the highest resolution (1200x1600 I think).
I'm good with the shortcuts for the tools and menus, so it's fairly easy for me to navigate through PS without a toolbar or menu's.
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