Photoshop's Workspaces & Orientation

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Now let's get more familiar with Photoshop in our face. So here in center we have our canvas where we can start drawing or creating our own designs. And here on top, we have our document as a tab. And if we have more than a file, open and Photoshop, you'll find more than a tab in here. On the left side, we have our toolbar where we can select our tools. So for instance, you can select your Brush Tool to start drawing in your canvas.

And you will find that one in here. And by hovering over any of these tools, you can see a quick demonstration for your tool, which is really handy and makes life easier. And of course, you can disable that feature in Photoshop settings. And underneath these tools, you will find even more nested tools. So by right clicking on our brush tool, we can discover even more tools in here. So we have Pencil Tool currently Going to a mixer brush tool.

And you can access these tools as well by pressing B on keyboard as a quick shortcut to save time. And you can cycle between your different tools by pressing Shift B, since they all have the same shortcut, of course. And if you would like to customize your own shortcuts, you can easily go to Edit menu, and you will find keyboard shortcuts where you can assign shortcuts for almost everything in Photoshop. So here we have shortcuts for application menus, you can select maybe tools, then you can select any of your tools, maybe move to, then let's assume that you don't like v as a shortcut for that tool and you would like to use em maybe for instance, maybe this could be more accessible for you guys, or closer to your hands. So let's maybe click in here, and then you can click accept or apply that anytime you'd like to get back to Before, you can click a button in here use defaults.

However, let's cancel that. And let's go back to our toolbar. Also here, we can review our toolbar in two columns or one column. This might be helpful for you guys if you have a smaller screen size. And also here we have these three dots for our toolbar, where you can edit your toolbar by right clicking in here you will find a toolbar. And if you have some tools that you don't really use all the time, you can move them to extra tools by clicking and dragging to here.

And you can always access these tools anytime by clicking on these three dots in here. And also a time can restore for shops deals by clicking restore defaults. So let's cancel that. Then top we have option bar or control bar, which is giving us more options for our tools. So here for instance, we have automation To select it, and you can change our brush size from here, or have more controls over our brush. Then here on the right side, we have four shops, different panels.

So here for instance, we have a brush panel, where you can select from any of these brushes. And as you can see, why is this a huge fan. And that's why it's an iconic model to save us some space, or otherwise we don't have that space to start designing or painting in our campus. So we have some iconic panels, and we have some urban balance on right side. And actually guys, everything here in Photoshop is so customizable. So for instance, you can start dragging your precious barrel all the way to right, maybe all the way to here, and you will start seeing the blue shading, which means that we can drop that barrel to our urban panels.

Then you can start switching between those different urban balance simply by clicking on the steps or you can drag that one once again Make it a floating balance. So maybe dragging that one to here, and Sheffield, that's quite too much, you can always click on those elves to collapse your battle and start maybe painting in here, then you can expand your battle once again by clicking on these arrows. Or let's even look that one again to our iconic panels. So I'm going to be selecting that one dragging the barrel to iconic panels. And actually, guys, if you're looking for more space for Canvas, you can always collapse your urban balance by clicking on those errors. Or we can expand them again and actually know what lies those are not all for shops balance.

So here on the very top of our screen we can see for shops menus, so let's maybe select window for instance, where you will find all four shops balance. So if you can Find your balance, you can always find it in here. Also, you can customize the spaces for your balance, they do require longer spaces by hovering on the top of these panels, for instance, maybe to get more space for our layers button. So you can see more layers in here. And here at the bottom we have status for where you can check your zoom level. So here we are at 50% zoom level within our canvas, and also a self checking document size, we can click on that arrow where you can select maybe the dimensions and also if you don't like Photoshop current colors, you can always change them.

So here for the background of our canvas, you can right click in here or you can select maybe black or different cars. Our let's get back to the phones. And also you can go to Photoshop settings. If you are a Mac user you will Find that one by clicking on Photoshop CC and you will find preferences in here. And if you are a Windows user, you will find that one on their Edit menu at the bottom of your menu in here. So clicking on Photoshop CC, then Preferences, then selecting interface.

So maybe instead of that dark Ray, you can go for darker one, selecting that one, or maybe something like that of white, which is really looking awful to me. So I'm gonna stick back to the front, then uploading that. If you made any changes to your current workspace, and you'd like to save that, you can go to your workspace selector. Then you can select new workspace. You can type maybe your name or even my name in that case, hello Abraham. And we can capture everything like shortcuts menus toolbar by selecting these options.

Then we can save That now can go back to workspace selector. And here we have our newly created workspace, or can select from for shops, different default workspaces. So basically guys, we were using essentials, and that's the one you'll find me using through the course. Or maybe if you are into painting, you can select maybe that one. However, let's go back to our default workspace, selecting essentials. And if anytime you'd like to search for anything in Photoshop, you can always click in here.

And let's maybe search for brush and see what we get. So here as you can see, we can find our brush tool, panel, and even different brush tools as well. And if you'd like to share your designs and photos, you can always use a button in here where you will get different sharing options like size, and where you would like to share that one. So anyway, guys, it's time to get our hands dirty in Photoshop. Let's get you to unleash your creativity and see how you can use that piece to create stunning auto.

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