Meet the Application Frame
When you launch Photoshop CC for the first time, you’re greeted by the Application Frame shown in Figure 1-1. This frame confines all things Photoshop to a single resizable, movable window. You can grab the whole mess—documents, panels, and all—and drag it to one side of your screen (or better yet, to another monitor) so it’s out of the way. And if you open more than one document, they’re displayed in handy tabs that you can rearrange by dragging.
Chances are, you’ll either love the Application Frame or hate it. If you’re on a computer running Windows, you’re used to programs looking and behaving this way. But if you’re on a Mac and you’re coming from an older version of Photoshop (like CS3), this arrangement may feel odd; in that case, you can turn off the frame by choosing Window→Application Frame to make Photoshop switch to the floating-window view used in older versions of the program. (PC folks are stuck with the frame.)
Note
In Photoshop CC, you’ll spot a special button at the bottom of each document window that looks like a rectangle with a curved arrow inside it. Clicking it uploads the current document to Adobe’s portfolio-sharing community site Behance—a great way to get critical feedback on projects. To learn more about Behance, see the box on Sharing Images on Behance and check out your author’s ebook “The Skinny on Behance” at www.theskinnybooks.com.
Figure 1-1. You can open several images at once; just click a document’s tab to summon it for ...