The Photoshop Productivity Series: Customizing Photoshop

Creating Custom Workspaces

It’s pretty simple to create custom workspaces in Photoshop. First, decide what panels you want showing, where you want them located, and whether they should be collapsed or expanded. Once you’ve done that, choose New Workspace from the Window > Workspace submenu or the Workspace Switcher in the Options Bar. For now, we’ll only worry about saving the appearance of the panels, so name the workspace and click OK (Figure 5.1).

Figure 5.1 Naming a new workspace.

You can create one or multiple workspaces—it’s really up to you. Many people create and use workspaces to reflect the work they do: one for retouching, one with ...