Options Check Auto-Update Open Documents to have open Photoshop documents that you edit in other applications update automatically when you return to Photoshop, such as when you enter m
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Opening the Preferences dialogs 385
General Preferences 386
Interface Preferences 388
File Handling Preferences 389
Performance Preferences 391
Cursors Preferences .392
Transparency & Gamut Preferences 392 Units & Rulers Preferences 393
Guides, Grid & Slices Preferences 394
Plug-ins Preferences 394
Type Preferences 395
Preferences for Adobe Bridge 396
Using the Preset Manager 398
Managing presets via pickers and panels 400
Creating tool presets 402
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specify for application features,
the default units for type or the rulers Most
prefer-ence changes take effect immediately (but are saved to
the Preferences file when you exit/quit Photoshop); a
handful of preference changes don’t take effect until
you relaunch Photoshop or Bridge (such exceptions are
noted) In this chapter, in addition to learning about all
the panels in the Preferences dialog, you’ll learn how to
save and load brush, tool, and other presets
Opening the Preferences dialogs
To open the Preferences dialog for Photoshop,
press Ctrl-K/Cmd-K, or choose Edit/Photo shop >
Preferences > General or another choice on that
submenu In the dialog, click one of the 10 panel
names on the left side,A or click Prev or Next, or
press Ctrl-1/Cmd-1 through Ctrl-0/Cmd-0 (zero)
To open the Preferences dialog for Bridge, in
Bridge, press Ctrl-K/Cmd-K or choose Edit/Adobe
Bridge CS5 > Preferences
RESETTING ALL THE PREFERENCES
➤ To reset all the Photoshop preferences to their
default settings, hold down
Ctrl-Alt-Shift/Cmd-Option-Shift as you launch the program When the alert dialog
appears, click Yes to delete (and reset) the Adobe
Photoshop Settings fi le
➤ To reset the Bridge preferences, hold down Ctrl/
Option as you launch Bridge When the Reset Settings
dialog appears, check Reset Preferences, then click OK
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As the default Color Picker, choose Adobe (the
default setting) or the color picker for your system
For the onscreen HUD (Heads-Up Display) Color
Picker, choose a strip or wheel style and a display
size.★ See page 186
Choose a default Image Interpolation option for
Photoshop features, such as the Image Size dialog
and the Crop tool, that involve resampling or
transforming: Nearest Neighbor (Preserve Hard
Edges), the fastest and the best for hard-edged
graphics but the least precise; Bilinear, medium
quality; Bicubic (Best for Smooth Gradients),
higher quality but slower; Bicubic Smoother (Best
for Enlargement); or Bicubic Sharper (Best for
Reduction) The latter two options also produce
high-quality results
Options
Check Auto-Update Open Documents to have
open Photoshop documents that you edit in other
applications update automatically when you return
to Photoshop, such as when you enter metadata for
a file in Bridge
Check Beep When Done to have a beep sound
when a command is done processing This can be
handy for commands that take a while to process
(so you can grab a snack!)
Check Dynamic Color Sliders to have the colors
above the sliders on the Color panel update as the
sliders are moved
Check Export Clipboard to retain the current
Clipboard contents on the system’s Clipboard
when you switch between Photoshop and other
applications
With Use Shift Key for Tool Switch checked, in
order to access a tool on a pop-out menu, you
must press Shift plus the assigned letter (e.g.,
press Shift-B to cycle through the Brush, Pencil,
Color Replacement, and Mixer Brush tools) If
you uncheck this option (as we do), you can cycle
through related tools simply by pressing their
assigned letter (without pressing Shift) To learn
the tool shortcuts, see pages 104–106
Check Resize Image During Place to have pixel
images from other Photoshop files or other
applica-tions scale to fit the current canvas area
automati-cally when imported via the File > Place command
Check Animated Zoom for smooth, continuous
zooming when you change the zoom level by drag-ging (OpenGL is required and must be enabled in the Performance panel of this dialog)
With Zoom Resizes Windows checked, a floating
document window will resize when you change the zoom level via the Ctrl/Cmd- + (plus) or Ctrl/
Cmd- – (minus) shortcut or the Zoom tool This preference can be set either here or via the Resize Windows to Fit check box on the Options bar
If your mouse has a scroll wheel and you check
Zoom with Scroll Wheel, you can change the zoom
level by scrolling the wheel
Check Zoom Clicked Point to Center to center the
image, when zooming, at the location you click
Check Enable Flick Panning to enable a magnified
image to quickly float across the screen when you drag it with the Hand tool a short distance, then release the mouse (OpenGL is required and must
be enabled in the Performance panel of this dialog)
Check Place or Drag Raster Images as Smart Objects to have raster images that are imported
into Photoshop via the Place command arrive as Smart Object layers.★
History Log Check History Log to generate a log of your
Photoshop activity from each work session For
Save Log Items To, choose where the log is to be
saved: to the Metadata of a file, to a separate Text File, or to Both (of the above) For either of the latter two options, choose a location for the text file in the dialog that opens automatically, then click Save (or open the dialog by clicking Choose)
From the Edit Log Items menu, choose what data
is to be saved in the log: Sessions Only to log only when you launch or exit/quit Photoshop and which files were opened; Concise to log Sessions infor-mation plus a list of edits (states on the History panel); or Detailed, to include all of the above data plus any actions used and the options and param-eters used in each editing step These log options can be handy if you need to keep a tally of billable hours for clients or a record of your exact editing steps
Click Reset All Warning Dialogs to reenable any
alert dialogs that you may have asked to be hidden
by checking Don’t Show Again
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General
To customize the colors for any of the three
Photoshop screen modes — Standard Screen Mode,
Full Screen with Menus, or Full Screen — choose a
background color from the first menu and a border
style (or None) from the second See page 94
Check Show Channels in Color to display RGB or
CMYK channels in color when displayed
individu-ally on the Channels panel (in the thumbnails),
and in the document window With this option
off, individual channels display in grayscale; this
can be useful for judging the luminosity values of
individual channels
Check Show Menu Colors to enable the display of
background colors that are assigned to menu
com-mands via Edit > Menus or by choosing a
work-space that contains them, such as the “New in CS5”
workspace
Check Show Tool Tips to allow the name or
func-tion of whichever bar, dialog, or panel feature the
pointer is currently hovering over (with the mouse
button up) to appear briefly onscreen so you can
identify it This is a good way to learn the names
and shortcuts for tools
Mac OS users: Check Enable Gestures if you have
a Windows 7 or MacBook computer with a
multi-touch trackpad (or are using a Magic Mouse with
an Apple computer) and you want to enable the
capability of the trackpad to zoom, rotate, or flick
images.★ Unlock this option if you find that the
gestures are causing unwanted changes
Panels & Documents
If Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels is checked and you
open a collapsed panel, it will collapse back to an
icon when you click outside it With this option
unchecked, the panel will remain expanded See
pages 96–97
Check Auto-Show Hidden Panels to allow panel
docks that you have hidden via the Tab or Shift-Tab shortcut to redisplay temporarily when you let the pointer pause on the dark gray vertical bar
at the left or right edge of the Application frame
if the document is in Standard Screen mode, or at the edge of your monitor if your document is in either of the Full Screen modes When the pointer
is moved away from the panels, they will disappear again
Check Open Documents as Tabs to have
documents dock automatically as tabs when opened instead of in a floating window (With this option checked in the Mac OS, images dock
as tabs in one document window even when the Application frame is hidden.)
Enable Floating Document Window Docking to
allow a floating document window to be docked
as a tabbed window when you drag its title bar below the bar at the top of the Application frame
or below the title bar of another window
Click Restore Default Workspaces to restore any
predefined Adobe workspaces to the Workspace menu that were deleted.★
UI Text Options
To implement choices made from the following two menus, you must relaunch Photoshop
If you are using a multilingual version of
Photoshop, from the UI Language menu, choose
a language for the interface
From the UI Font Size menu, choose Small (the
default choice that we prefer), Medium, or Large
as the font size for the Photoshop user interface (menus, panels, tool tips, the Options bar, and the like)
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File Saving Options
Choose Image Previews: Never Save to save files
without a thumbnail preview for the Desktop, or
Always Save (our preference) to have an updated
preview save with your files each time they’re saved,
or Ask When Saving to decide which previews to
include in each case via Image Previews check boxes
in the Save or Save As dialog See pages 24 and 26
In the Mac OS, check Icon to have a
thumb-nail of an image display as its file icon on the
Desktop and in the File > Open dialog Check
Windows Thumbnail to have a file’s thumbnail
display when the file is selected in File > Open
In the Mac OS, choose Append File Extension:
Always (our preference) to automatically include
a three-letter abbreviation of the file format (e.g.,
.tif, psd) when a file is saved; or Ask When Saving
to have the option to decide in each case whether
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to include the extension via File Extension check
boxes in the Save As dialog Extensions are helpful
when converting files for Windows, and are
neces-sary when saving files for the Web Keep Use Lower
Case checked to have file extensions appear in
low-ercase characters instead of upplow-ercase
In Windows, choose File Extension: Use Lower
Case or Use Upper Case
Check Save As to Original Folder to have the
loca-tion in the Save As dialog default to the existing
location of the current file Great new feature! ★
File Compatibility
Click Camera Raw Preferences to open that dialog.
Check Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for Supported
Raw Files to have raw files that you open via File >
Open open into Camera Raw, as opposed to other
conversion software (we keep this option checked)
Keep Ignore EXIF Profile Tag unchecked to allow
Photoshop to read a camera’s EXIF metadata color
space information when opening files This option
was necessary only for some early digital cameras
Check Ask Before Saving Layered TIFF Files to
have an “Including layers will increase file size”
alert appear when layered files are saved in the
TIFF format You can use this as a reminder to
uncheck the Layers option in the Save As dialog
A File Handling Preferences
The Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility
option includes a flattened version of files in those formats to make them compatible with programs that don’t read Photoshop layers (including Adobe Lightroom) This option increases the file size but
is often a necessity Choose Ask to have the com-patibility option be offered via an alert when files are saved, or choose Always to produce compatible files upon saving without an alert appearing See pages 24 and 26
Note: Upon saving a layered file, if Ask is the cur-rent Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility preference and you check Maximize Compatibility and Don’t Show Again in the Photoshop Format Options dialog, Photoshop will switch the prefer-ence setting to Always If you uncheck Maximize Compatibility but do check Don’t Show Again in the alert, the preference setting will be switched
to Never.★
File list
In the Recent File List Contains [ ] files field,
enter the maximum number of files (up to 30) that can be listed at a time on the File > Open Recent submenu in Photoshop
Note: Adobe Drive is not available in, or supported
by, Adobe Creative Suite 5