Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P3

Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P3:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copyof Adobe Photoshop 6.0, and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team atAdobe thank you.If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what toexpect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip.
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Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P3 Chapter 2 ✦ Inside Photoshop 37 Rearranging and docking palettesPhotoshop 6 In the past, you’ve been able to regroup palettes to suit the way you work. Now you also can dock palettes to each other or to the Options bar. You’re king of the palette hill, as it were. To attach a floating palette to the Options bar, as shown in Figure 2-8, drag the palette tab to the docking well. After you dock the palette, you see just the palette tab on the Options bar. Click the tab to display the palette, as shown in the figure. When you click outside the palette, the palette closes automatically. Note If you don’t see the docking well, you need to raise your monitor resolution. The docking well isn’t accessible at monitor resolutions of less than 800 pixels wide. Also, if you undock the Options bar, any palettes attached to it hide themselves. To redisplay a hidden palette, choose its name from the Window menu. Docking well Figure 2-8: Attach palettes to the Options bar by dragging them to the docking well.Photoshop 6 In addition to docking palettes in the Options bar, you can dock palettes to each other. Drag a palette tab to the bottom of another palette and release the mouse but- ton when the other palette appears highlighted, as shown in the left side of Figure 2-9. The dragged palette grabs hold of the other palette’s tail and doesn’t let go. Now you can keep both palettes visible but move, close, collapse, and resize the two as a sin- gle entity, as shown in the right half of the figure. Tip When you dock a resizable palette to another resizable palette, you can resize the palettes like so: ✦ Place your cursor over the border between two stacked palettes until you see the double-headed arrow cursor. Then drag down to enlarge the upper palette and shrink the lower one. Drag up to enlarge the lower palette and shrink the upper one. The overall size of the docked palettes doesn’t change. ✦ Alt-drag the border to resize the upper palette only. Still not happy with your palette layout? You can shuffle palettes at will, moving a single palette from one group to another or giving it complete independence from any group. To separate a palette from the herd, drag its tab away from the palette group, as demonstrated in the left column in Figure 2-10. To add the palette to a38 Part I ✦ Welcome to Photoshop 6 palette group, drag its tab onto the palette group, as shown in the middle column. The right column shows the results of the two maneuvers I made in the first two columns. Figure 2-9: Drag a palette tab to the bottom of another palette (left) to dock the two palettes together (right). Figure 2-10: Dragging a palette tab out of a palette group (left) separates the palette from its original family (middle). Dragging a palette tab onto another palette group (middle) adds that palette to the group (right). Photoshop 6 If you ever completely muck up the palettes — or a palette somehow gets stuck under the menu bar — choose Window ➪ Reset Palette Locations. Chapter 2 ✦ Inside Photoshop 39 Tabbing through the options I mentioned earlier that you can hide the palettes by pressing Shift+Tab and that you can hide the palettes, toolbox, and Options bar by pressing Tab. But this key- board trick doesn’t work if an option box is active. For example, suppose you click inside the R option box in the Color palette. This activates the option. Now press Tab. Rather than hiding the palettes, Photoshop advances you to the next option box in the palette, G. To move backward through the options, press Shift+Tab. This trick applies to the Options bar as well as to the standard palettes. To apply an option box value and return focus to the image window, press Enter. ...