Collapsing Photoshop Palettes

Sometimes you may want to optimize your Photoshop workspace. To do this, you simply collapse photoshop palettes when they are not used. By double-clicking any of the name tabs at the top of the palette, you can collapse a Photoshop palette window. You can also reposition a palette by clicking the little bar at the top of the palette and then drag it around your workspace. When you move a palette close to the bottom of the screen, it should nap into place.




(Collapsing Photoshop Palettes.)


When repositioning the palettes, be sure that you don't position any palettes too close to the right edge of the screen. This edge that is affectionately known as palette alley can cause you great trouble when you zoom in on your images. If you have a palette that is too close to the right edge of the screen and you press Command-+ (Mac) or Alt-Ctrl-+ (Windows), Photoshop cannot resize the document window to the screen width. It instead, leaves the palette alley open and does not allow the document window to intrude this space. In other words, the effort you have made in repositioning the palettes in order to save space are useless.

To access any of these palettes, double-click the palette's name tab. By doing that, you will instantly open the palette. To collapse the palette, again double-click its name.

Each time you open Photoshop the palettes will be at their default places if you turn off the Save Palette Location check box in the File > Preferences > General dialog box.