Understanding Workspaces
Lesson 4 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Understanding Workspaces
Lesson 4 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Lesson Info
4. Understanding Workspaces
Lessons
How To Open Files
01:10 2Using The Home Screen
01:49 3Exploring The Interface
02:36 4Understanding Workspaces
03:04 5Tools and The Options Bar
01:56 6Finding Hidden Tools
02:31 7How to See What You’re Working On
06:19 8Selecting Things
07:06More Selection Tools
10:34 10Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
03:55 11The History Palette – Undoing Things
02:47 12Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:28 13Non-Destructive Editing
02:14 14Working with Layers
09:11 15Groovy 3 Exercise
10:38 16Layer Effects and Styles
04:25 17Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
06:41 18Using Adjustment Layers
04:36 19Using Filters
03:06 20Advanced Compositing Using Layers
07:42 21Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
03:17 22Understanding Smart Objects
05:16 23Smart Sharpen
04:36 24Understanding Histogram
04:08 25Adjusting Curves
03:46 26The Healing Brush Tools
07:28 27The Clone Stamp Tool
05:24 28The Burn and Dodge Tools
03:41 29Neural Filters
07:52Lesson Info
Understanding Workspaces
Think of workspaces like, maybe, the rooms in your house. So, if you're cooking food, you would go to the kitchen. All the tools that you need to bake a cake are in the kitchen. If you need to work on your car, you go to the garage and all the tools you need to work on your car are in the garage. Well, the same thing can be true of Photoshop. We can set up specific workspaces to do specific things. And so, up in the upper right hand corner of the interface, there's this little square box right up here. And so, if you click on that, you'll see different workspaces. And so, by default, Essentials is chosen. Previously, we chose Photography. So, I'm gonna click on that and you can see that it remembers whatever you've done in that workspace. So, let's say I have clicked on the Histogram and I have clicked over here to Adjustments and then I change to a different workspace and I do some things and then I come back to the Photography workspace. You'll see that all my stuff returns and I can...
work on that as well. So, the nice thing about workspaces is that you can just totally mess up the interface and then return to where you need to go. So, on the sides of each of these panels and docs and things, you'll notice if you hover over them then your cursor changes to little arrows, that means you can click and drag to make those wider. And on some of these, you can click and drag them out. So, you can see a little panel, you can click that out. You can move it around. You can, maybe, drag out this thing. So, it's just a little floating dock here. Maybe, I take this and I make it really big. I move this over here and maybe I grab this and I move it to where I want it to go. So, now it's floating over here but I want it to be two things instead of one. So now, I've totally changed this workspace. If I go back to, let's say, a motion workspace that's there. But look, when I come back to my Photography Workspace that I messed up, it's exactly how I left it, all messed up. But what happens if I need to put this back? If I'm like, oh no, I accidentally messed it up. No problem. Just go up to the workspace and then say, Reset Photography. If I click that, it sticks it all back where it was when I started. And so, you can undo your mistakes. The other thing that's really neat is that you can go in and you can... Let's say I change my navigator, this little panel over here. I put it up here. Maybe, I drag these tools over here. And that's the way I like to work. I can go up here and I can say, New Workspace. I can click on there and I'll say, Mark's Workspace. And I wanna save the menus and the toolbar and the keyboard shortcuts. Let's say I wanna save everything that I've saved up or set up. Now, I'll hit save. And now, even if I move this around... So, I'll do this. Whoops. If I say reset Mark's Workspace, it puts it back where I had it before. So, I can create workspaces that work specific to the needs that I have for my own work.
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