If you follow the various Photoshop tutorials we have published so far, you will know how powerful and versatile Photoshop is, allowing you to perform a wide variety of tasks, from from simple image editing to more advanced workflows. In fact, every time you open Photoshop, you’ll inevitably have a task in mind, but having to arrange panels and menus a certain way each time will only slow you down.
This is the problem that the Photoshop workspace solves. Workspaces allow you to have the most essential tools available for certain tasks with just one click, making your workflow a lot smoother and saving time.
Photoshop comes with quite a few of these by default, but beyond that, it allows you to create your own custom workspaces. That way, every time you want to do a particular job, you won’t have to rearrange everything.
Customize your own Photoshop workspace
Before you start, think about the most important boards you’ll have to work on. These are the default panels that Photoshop starts with in my case.
You can remove any of them by clicking and dragging it away from the rest. When you do, click ‘x’ in the top left to close it. In this example I am removing style dashboard.
In a similar way, you can pull up useful panels for yourself and stack them together for easier access. Just drag one on top of the other until you have a stack you’re happy with.
Here I am pulling Paragraph panel from the group below and place it above.
To bring more consoles, just go to Window drop down menu on the menu bar and you will see all the different panels available there.
Also, here you can access the default workspaces as well as the ones you create.
As you can see below, Photoshop itself comes with several workspaces ready for you to use. Just click on any of them to activate it.
Alternatively, you can select any workspace from the top right menu of Photoshop, on the toolbar.
Cool Tip: You can also use this menu to delete workspaces or reset default workspaces if you make any changes to them.
After arranging the panels you need in a preferred way, you can save that arrangement as a custom workspace by clicking New workspace… from the menus shown above.
This will bring up a dialog where you can name your newly created workspace.
Now, before you save your new workspace, there are some really important options that you should also check: Keyboard Shortcuts And menu.
Why are these options important? Well, imagine you’re working on a specific workspace and you create specific shortcuts or edit Photoshop’s menus to get things done faster. The problem is that if you only save your workspace, then you will have to recreate both the shortcut and the menu every time you use that workspace.
But when choosing the options shown above, both of these options are saved along your new workspace, saving you a lot of time every time you work with them. It’s an extremely valuable option, isn’t it?
And there you have it! Now that you know about workspaces, you can set up your workspace and start saving time every time you open Photoshop from now on. Nothing!
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