Setting Up How You View Your Photos

Before you start sorting your photos, it helps to get a handle on how to view your images. In Photoshop CS, you have a decent amount of control over how this is done, so I’m going to show you what your options are, and then how to set up the File Browser to display photos in a way that’s most comfortable to you.

Working in the main window: The main window displays the thumbnail views of your photos. If you click on a thumbnail within this window, the photo highlights to let you know it’s selected (as shown here), and a preview of the photo is displayed in the Preview palette to its left. If you want to open the full-size image in Photoshop, just double-click on the thumbnail in the main window. (Note: You ...

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