Inside Photoshop® CS

Getting Some Control Over Screen Appearances of Elements!

Okay, in terms of non-printing screen elements, we've covered the guides, the grid, and the slices. Coming up soon will be selection edges (affectionately known as marching ants), Target Paths (which involve using the Pen tools, discussed in Chapter 6, “Using the Pen Tools”), two gandarks, a swozzle, and a pnuph. Okay, I'm exaggerating toward the end there; however, it's not funny when you've ganged up a bunch of screen aids and want to hide them from view in one fell swoop.

Adobe calls these screen elements “extras.” To choose which of these extras will appear on a screen near you, choose View, Show, Show Extras Options to display the dialog box shown in Figure 3.16. (The figure also ...