Saving a Custom Workspace Layout

Experiment on your own by customizing the palettes into an arrangement you think you'll like. If you work with many large images you may prefer to keep your palettes collapsed along the bottom edge of the Photoshop workspace to give you the maximum space for documents. If you use multiple monitors, you may want all the palettes joined into one and moved onto a second monitor.

When you are happy with your custom arrangement, go to Window > Workspace > Save Workspace. Type a name to identify the palette arrangement, make sure the "Palette Locations" checkbox is enabled, and click Save. Now when you go to the Window > Workspace menu, you will see your new saved workspace at the bottom of the menu. You can choose this from the menu anytime you want to go back to this palette arrangement.

If you'd like, check out some of the other custom workspaces under the Window > Workspace menu. Also practice rearranging the palettes and re-loading the customized workspace you saved. When you're finished exploring, you can reset everything back to the defaults by going to Window > Workspace > Default Workspace.

We'll take a closer look at each of the individual palettes in future lessons.