Lesson 1.01 - Tabbed Windows

Alright people, time for our next lesson. Today we are going to learn something that you should know well before we start dealing with Photoshop. It is about the windows in the workspace. From CS3 and backwards, all the versions, when two or more images where opened at one time, they appeared in separate windows & the negative point is that sometimes when a couple of documents are open, they get hidden behind each other making the workspace look like you never wana know whats happening in there which ultimately leads to you losing your temper and shutting down the pc ! :P Trust me it has happened to me (a)

This is how it looks like in CS3 or previous versions though  the image is take in CS4.
I just wanted to show you the difference :)

But, Adobe found a solution to this! Now not only you have all images in one window but multi-tabbed just like you see in your Google Chrome or Firefox browsers but you can even have the separate windows view :D 

This is the multi-tab feature from CS4 onwards.

In the multi tab view you can view your image by clicking on the image tab that you desire to view.

Now inorder to rearrange the order of the images in the tab since you have more than 2 images or so, you just click and drag the desired images to its desired location or the tab. It will become clear to you when you see the next video I upload so dont worry :) 

Now just incase you dont want all the images to be in the tab and you want one of them to be in a separate window, all you do is click and drag it outside the tab and you will get that image in a separate window :) 

Multi-Tab as well as separate window :)

Now just incase you want it back on to the tab, all you need to do it click and drag the window back to the multi tab area or if you have more than one or two images that you want to get back to one tab, you can go to Window>Arrange>Consolidate All to Tabs, just like shown below.

Window>Arrange>Consolidate All to Tabs

Photoshop even allows you to change the layouts of the tabs or windows on your workspace. All you got to do is click on the Arrange Documents icon on the menu bar and choose your desired layout.

The Icon for Arrange Documents

For example you choose the 3-up view

This will be you layout for 3-up

Thats all about Tabbed Windows and dont forget to check our the video about this lesson which I am going to upload.

Hope I was clear enough.

Have a nice day ! :)