If you want to move a layer, item text, or pretty much anything, grab this tool beforehand and then get movin’! Name your Workspace and optionally set it to save all your settings. Lastly, save your Workspace by clicking Window > Workspace > New Workspace. These are the basic panels which you’ll be using all the time. Whatever panels you choose to keep, make sure you have Layers, Navigator, Swatches and History open on at all times.
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Use the Windows menu to choose all the items you want.
Take a look at some of the other Workspaces that come pre-made on Photoshop CS5 and then move on to making your own. But you don’t want to go with the essentials only, do you? You’ll want way more out of Photoshop. The default workspace is called Essentials however as you can see above. These presets are called Workspaces… imagine that! If you look in the upper right of your Photoshop window, you’ll see that there are some presets already setup for you which configures your Workspace. Step 1 – Setup your own Workspace When starting Photoshop for the first time, I recommend setting up the tools you will later use the most often. So with that being said, let’s jump right in! The video and the write-up below will not dig very deep into any of the tools as we’ll cover each in detail in later groovyPost’s. To kick things off, our Photoshop expert DW96 has created a groovy Video / Screencast which walks through the high level basics of the Photoshop CS5 Interface and each of the basic tools / functions you should become familiar with on the Photoshop toolbar.