The free Photoshop add-ons mentioned in the video are here: photoshopcafe.com/vault/ Written steps here: photoshopcafe.com/change-these-photoshop-settings-today/
A brilliant video that is really useful to keep things easy, especially if used everytime there's an update! A useful written link as well! Obvious to do but result forgotten about so big thanks Colin!
Man, you houl🎉d be on the Adobe payroll under interface development guru. I am NOT kidding. These are so good that they should be standard in every new version of PS. Thank you.
Love the tips! Thought I would add that I added a Tool Presets Panel above my Layers/Channels/Paths panels and saved my most-used brushes to it. It holds my favorite Clone Stamp Brush, Eraser, Smudge Brush, Mixers, etc - great time saver when doing clean up work especially - no more scanning through all the brushes in the Brush Panel. And it can be swapped out by saving and creating new ones for different projects.
It's a nighmare with consistent colour for my clients corporate and product work when importing images between different applications and saving images to JPG when I miss that the RGB color space change after upgrading!
I'll add a few things to your list Colin. I always turn off using the Shift key to toggle through nested tools, because why on earth would you use two keys when one works the same? I remove the shortcuts from seldom used tools that nested with useful tools. Best example is B will always select the ordinary Brush tool, and P always selects the ordinary Pen tool etc. If I want one of the other tools, I use the mouse and toolbar. Tools like the History Brush are removed completely, because they make no sense at all. Same thing for the Slice and one pixel selection tools. What makes the above so powerful are Custom Workspaces and the ability to save custom toolbars and menus to custom workspaces. I love and use the Michael Ninness Window > Arrange shortcuts from his Power Shortcuts presentation at MAX (2014 ish). So if I need the default for Free Transform Step & Repeat, I switch to the default Essentials workspace. I have short actions that set and reset my most used workspaces, that are triggered by Function keys. The F key defaults might make sense for a tiny laptop screen, but if you have the screen space, they are far too valuable to waste on their default. I also use F keys, and modified F keys, that do things like Make Smart Object, add canvas, Trim, Rasterize layer, etc. I absolutely hate having to right click a layer and search through what has become an ever longer list of options. Turn off Auto collapse and Auto open panels in Preferences, because it saves me wanting to through my computer out of a window. I like Show Tool Tips, but not Rich tool tips, obviously. Also remember to use Discover if you can't remember where something is.
Excellent thank you!!! Many things iv wondered why where how and this is most of them Thank you Appreciate so Much your teaching training and style. Scott
Settings I need are time-saving 'actions' I recorded, like I've made a create new and paste from clipboard for ctrl+f12, or another defaults the brush back to a standard hard round or text instantly to Helvetica 30, or applies my favourite LUT/preset, another convert to smart object and open camera raw.
thank very much. It is driving Mr insane that with updates or if I buy a new computer all my preferred tools, settings workspaces disappear. This really helps me fix this if not totally then at least partially. Tks!!
I use several of those settings. I also have my toolbar docked on the right hand side so I don't have to reach over to the left to select a tool, although I use keyboard shortcuts for the more often used tools.
hi ! AWESOME tips man !!! I totally love your work ❤)) Do you know how to bring back the OLD swatches panel instead of the nonsense they do now ? Thanks a ton !
When I click "Legacy" under "Swatches" nothing happens. And there is no "Legacy" under color. It only worked for me under the other panels: patterns, gradients, brushes and styles. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Colin!
Excellent tips and you got me poking round in those settings, but have you seen how powerful the remove tool is now ? You have four choices when you select it, use AI (programme will decide if AI is better to replace what you are removing), always use AI (self explanatory) and never use AI, fourth choice is to find people in the background.
Mostly PS 2024, I used Beta for a couple of the tips because I didn't want to clear out my presets, but those are identical on 2024. There is nothing on there that isn't in the latest shipping version.
brilliant i am new to photoshop and so far i get alot of "Scratch disks are full" error in Photoshop so can i have an external hard drive as my main drive for PS or do you need to buy more space?
You can set an external drive. If you are getting this notification, its time to move stuff off your startup drive, it will speed up your computer a lot, not just for Photoshop.
If I am working on something that is mission critical that I ultimately will be printing at the highest quality levels I set my color space to Adobe 1998 or Pro Photo and always - irrespective of the color space chosen - make it give a mismatch warning for files that are not in that set color space. But when I am working on promos for the web or a website I set it to S_RGB since that is going to be the end output. This automatically gives me a warning to be wary that I have opened a quality file in Adobe 1998 and gives me the opportunity to decide before converting it or not. Also means I don't have to manually convert a file to SRGB by going to Edit and scrolling down after working on it. I can just let Photoshop when it opens it ask me if I want to convert it to the set color space - SRGB - and then I can save it in that space separately - protecting my original Adobe 1998 by debasing it to SRGB.
I REALLY wish Adobe would quit dicking around messing up the interface. I'd stopped updating for a while because for seemingly each time saving improvement, they caused extra work by messing up the workspace during upgrade. Needlessly.
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The free Photoshop add-ons mentioned in the video are here: photoshopcafe.com/vault/
Written steps here: photoshopcafe.com/change-these-photoshop-settings-today/
A brilliant video that is really useful to keep things easy, especially if used everytime there's an update! A useful written link as well! Obvious to do but result forgotten about so big thanks Colin!
I use a lot of them already, but didn't know I could expand the Open Recent list. That's great! 👍
awesome
I love these types of videos that show you all the little things
Glad to hear it!
Colin, so very helpful! thank You
Many thanks, one of the most useful tutorials around!
Very useful. Thank you, Colin.
Man, you houl🎉d be on the Adobe payroll under interface development guru. I am NOT kidding. These are so good that they should be standard in every new version of PS. Thank you.
lol, $$$
Not being a very technical person, I find this very useful indeed, AND you talk its slowly.
Very helpful. I didn’t know quite a few of these settings. Thanks.
Happy to help
Simply Amazing🤩
Thank you for giving the greatest gift possible…..time!
you're welcome
Love the tips! Thought I would add that I added a Tool Presets Panel above my Layers/Channels/Paths panels and saved my most-used brushes to it. It holds my favorite Clone Stamp Brush, Eraser, Smudge Brush, Mixers, etc - great time saver when doing clean up work especially - no more scanning through all the brushes in the Brush Panel. And it can be swapped out by saving and creating new ones for different projects.
good idea
Thank you!
Muchas gracias Colin!!!
It's a nighmare with consistent colour for my clients corporate and product work when importing images between different applications and saving images to JPG when I miss that the RGB color space change after upgrading!
I'll add a few things to your list Colin.
I always turn off using the Shift key to toggle through nested tools, because why on earth would you use two keys when one works the same?
I remove the shortcuts from seldom used tools that nested with useful tools. Best example is B will always select the ordinary Brush tool, and P always selects the ordinary Pen tool etc. If I want one of the other tools, I use the mouse and toolbar. Tools like the History Brush are removed completely, because they make no sense at all. Same thing for the Slice and one pixel selection tools.
What makes the above so powerful are Custom Workspaces and the ability to save custom toolbars and menus to custom workspaces. I love and use the Michael Ninness Window > Arrange shortcuts from his Power Shortcuts presentation at MAX (2014 ish). So if I need the default for Free Transform Step & Repeat, I switch to the default Essentials workspace. I have short actions that set and reset my most used workspaces, that are triggered by Function keys. The F key defaults might make sense for a tiny laptop screen, but if you have the screen space, they are far too valuable to waste on their default.
I also use F keys, and modified F keys, that do things like Make Smart Object, add canvas, Trim, Rasterize layer, etc. I absolutely hate having to right click a layer and search through what has become an ever longer list of options.
Turn off Auto collapse and Auto open panels in Preferences, because it saves me wanting to through my computer out of a window. I like Show Tool Tips, but not Rich tool tips, obviously. Also remember to use Discover if you can't remember where something is.
Thanks for the useful additions
great colin
thx
The legacy photographic toning gradients are terrific, especially the Platinum gradient, for B&W conversions.
they are
These were great setting tips! Thanks!
glad to help
Excellent thank you!!!
Many things iv wondered why where how and this is most of them
Thank you
Appreciate so
Much your teaching training and style.
Scott
Im happy to help
Settings I need are time-saving 'actions' I recorded, like I've made a create new and paste from clipboard for ctrl+f12, or another defaults the brush back to a standard hard round or text instantly to Helvetica 30, or applies my favourite LUT/preset, another convert to smart object and open camera raw.
Good tips
thank very much. It is driving Mr insane that with updates or if I buy a new computer all my preferred tools, settings workspaces disappear. This really helps me fix this if not totally then at least partially. Tks!!
Glad to put you on the right path
I use several of those settings. I also have my toolbar docked on the right hand side so I don't have to reach over to the left to select a tool, although I use keyboard shortcuts for the more often used tools.
I see some people do that
hi ! AWESOME tips man !!! I totally love your work ❤)) Do you know how to bring back the OLD swatches panel instead of the nonsense they do now ? Thanks a ton !
Choose legacy and drag them out like I did with the gradients.
Thanks, very helpful. And why did pshop relegate photo toning gradients to legacy? I found them useful a long time ago.
I think when they refreshed the presets a few years ago, everything else got moved to legacy.
When I click "Legacy" under "Swatches" nothing happens. And there is no "Legacy" under color. It only worked for me under the other panels: patterns, gradients, brushes and styles. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Colin!
Ditto.
Maybe you can make a video about the RGB-settings? Why pick one over the other?
I actually did a long time ago, something like "my colors don't match" or something like that
Excellent tips and you got me poking round in those settings, but have you seen how powerful the remove tool is now ? You have four choices when you select it, use AI (programme will decide if AI is better to replace what you are removing), always use AI (self explanatory) and never use AI, fourth choice is to find people in the background.
Yes, remove tool is great
what version of Photoshop you using ? and what layout. I can't find a few of these things
Did the ending get cut ?
Mostly PS 2024, I used Beta for a couple of the tips because I didn't want to clear out my presets, but those are identical on 2024. There is nothing on there that isn't in the latest shipping version.
No, I was rambling and wanted to keep it concise.
@@photoshopcafe Haaa cool
Nice!
brilliant i am new to photoshop and so far i get alot of "Scratch disks are full" error in Photoshop so can i have an external hard drive as my main drive for PS or do you need to buy more space?
You can set an external drive. If you are getting this notification, its time to move stuff off your startup drive, it will speed up your computer a lot, not just for Photoshop.
@@photoshopcafe cheers but how and where in setting can i set up an external drive ?
The Home Page is useless. Thanks Colin.
If I am working on something that is mission critical that I ultimately will be printing at the highest quality levels I set my color space to Adobe 1998 or Pro Photo and always - irrespective of the color space chosen - make it give a mismatch warning for files that are not in that set color space.
But when I am working on promos for the web or a website I set it to S_RGB since that is going to be the end output.
This automatically gives me a warning to be wary that I have opened a quality file in Adobe 1998 and gives me the opportunity to decide before converting it or not.
Also means I don't have to manually convert a file to SRGB by going to Edit and scrolling down after working on it.
I can just let Photoshop when it opens it ask me if I want to convert it to the set color space - SRGB - and then I can save it in that space separately - protecting my original Adobe 1998 by debasing it to SRGB.
Good tip
Thanks. Who knew.?
I REALLY wish Adobe would quit dicking around messing up the interface.
I'd stopped updating for a while because for seemingly each time saving improvement,
they caused extra work by messing up the workspace during upgrade. Needlessly.
Sorry, youtube won't let me watch your tutorial. Says I'm using an add blocker which I'm not. Can't afford $29/mo for youtubes bs.
Sorry, I’m not familiar with this issue. Maybe use a different browser?
Srgb
Thank you, I didn't know about legacy patterns & swatches! ;) @lidans66