Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the Photoshoptrainingchannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Twitter @JRfromPTC.
In this video, we're going to talk about the Photoshop Toolbar and how you can customize
it. The Photoshop Toolbar is found here on the right. It's this long strip of tools,
and in Photoshop CC 2015.1, you can actually customize this toolbar. You can do so in two
different ways. You can go into the Edit Menu and click on Toolbar. You can, also, click
on this icon here with the three dots and select Edit Toolbar. That's going to bring
up the Customized Toolbar Window, and it's actually very simple to use. It's drag and drop
You have your tools, which update live, as you adjust them here on the actual toolbar,
and the extra tools column, which contains the tools not found on the toolbar. So for
example, we have the Artboard Tool, which you may not use very often, so I can Click
and Drag that out, and, now, this tool is no longer found in the Toolbar. You, probably,
didn't notice it because it was nested under the Move Tool. Notice that the Move Tool does
not have the triangle icon on the corner here, like the other tools, which means that there
is no tool nested underneath. I can click and drag the Artboard Tool back under the
Move Tool, then we get that triangle back, which means that this tool is now nested under
the Move Tool. But I don't want that, I'm going to Click and Drag that out, and I'm
also going to make other adjustments, like, maybe, removing the Magic Wand Tool, and,
maybe, the Slice Tool, and several other tools I don't need.
Now, I'm not going to go through the entire list, just to save a little bit of time, but
you get the idea. You can also create new sets of nested tools, for example, maybe I
want to have the Spot Healing Brush Tool in its own section. So I'm going to Click and
Drag that out in-between two sections, and, now, this tool, it's on its own. You can see
it hereóSpot Healing Brush Tool. And I can nest different tools underneath it, for example,
the Pencil Tool. With the customized Toolbar window, you can also choose which icons to
display on the Toolbar. For example, the three dot icon that we clicked on earlier, we can
disable that if we want to, and it's no longer here. We can, also, get rid of the foreground
and background coloróbut I wouldn't do thatóthe Quick Mask Mode, and the View Modes. So you
can choose which buttons you want to have enabled or disabled. I'm going to enable all
of them. When you're done, you can click on the Done button, or you can save it as a Preset
to load this configuration into another computer. For now, I'm just going to click on the Done
button, and my Toolbar has been changed.
Another new feature that is very powerful, that you can use the customized toolbar for
is with Custom Workspaces. For example, you might be working in Photoshop in a very specific
area; maybe, you're retouching or doing 3D, or designing a Logo. And for some of those
tasks, you may have some tools that you use often, and others that you rarely use, so
may want to have a custom Toolbar for that. Let me show you how to create a custom workspace
alongside a Custom Toolbar. To do so, first, find a custom workspace that is very similar
to the one that you want to create. You can click on the workspaces drop down menu here,
and in this example, I'm going to create a workspace to help me with my photography.
So, I'm going to click on Photography, and this could be retouching or anything like
that. So I'm going to click on Photography here, and it's going to change my panels.
And I'm not totally happy with it, so I'm going to make some changes. I'm going to close
the Libraries panel because I don't really need it for my photography. I will just open
one photo and work on that, and, also, when working on Photography, I might have Adjustment
Layers. So, let me select the Layer and create an Adjustment Layer. The layer is not that
important, but I do want the Properties panel to come up, and I want that to be available
to me at all times, so I'm going to click on the Properties panel, and drag that above
the Layers panel. So, now, I have my Properties panel there. A Histogram is fine on top. The
Adjustment Layers are fine there, and the Properties panel below that is good. Now,
I'm going to work on the Toolbar. I'm going to go into Edit, Toolbar, and I'm going to
click on Reset to Default, just so I can have the default toolbars, or even better, I'm
going to click on Clear Tools, which is going to clear all the tools. Notice the Toolbar
is now clear. And I can just drag tools that I want to use or Photography on to the Toolbar.
So I want to use the Move Tool and the Quick Selection Tool, but I'm going to nest the
Lasso Tool underneath that. Maybe I'll add the Rectangular Marquee Tool, and the Elliptical
Marquee Tool, just in case. And, maybe, I'll add the Crop Tool, Spot Healing Brush Tool,
Healing Brush Tool, Patch Tool, and I'm just going to stop there for now because I want
to save some time, but you can go through the entire list and decide which tools you
want to add on to your Toolbar, and I'm just going to finish that off with the Zoom Tool.
So, what I'm going to do now is, also, take advantage, that within the Customize Toolbar,
I can apply keyboard shortcuts. For example, maybe you use a Patch Tool often; you can
just click on the keyboard shortcut here on the right. If you noticed, the right hand
side of each tool shows you the keyboard shortcut. If you click on it, you can, actually, edit
it.
So, this is my retouching photography workspace. I, probably, won't be using vectors. I can
use, maybe, the Path Selection Tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of A, and use that
for my Patch Tool. I can click on the Patch Tool, and then press A on the keyboard, so
now, my Patch Tool's keyboard shortcut is A. And that's not going to bring up the Path
Selection Tool. I can click on Done, and if I press A on the keyboard, that's going to
bring up my Patch Tool. Notice if I click on the Tool here, the Patch Tool has a keyboard
shortcut of A. And just to show you how the Patch Tool works, I can select her mouth.
Make sure that we're on the actual pixel layer, Click and Drag that over to her forehead,
and, now, her mouth is gone. Ctrl D, Command D to Deselect.
Now, I really like this workspace and I really like my Toolbar. Now, I have to save it, so
I'm going to go into this drop down menu here in the top right, and select New Workspace,
and I can name it whatever I want, so I'll just call it "My Photography" because this
is my photography workspace, and I want to capture the Keyboard Shortcuts, the Menus,
and the Toolbar, and then I'm going to click on Save. Now, maybe, tomorrow I have a different
assignment and now I'm working on 3D, so I can click on the 3D workspace, notice that
the Toolbar changes, and so do my panels. And, maybe, I'll start working on my photography
again, and I can click on My Photography workspace, and my tools are back. Now, you're probably
wondering about the keyboard shortcuts. Well, if I press A on the keyboard, I still have
my Patch Tool, but when I switch into 3D, and select a different tool, like the Move
Tool, and press A again, now it selects the Path Selection Tool. And if you make any adjustments
into the Toolbar; let me just make some adjustments here, and Iím just going to restore it to
default, so we're looking at the Default Toolbar here, and, maybe I drag out the Single Row
Marquee Tool, and the Single Column Marquee Tool, because I don't use them too often.
And I'm working on my project, but now I find a need to use them, what do you do?
Well, you can just click on the three dot icon here, and notice that those tools appear
there, so you can select them. So the tools that you're not currently using in your Main
Toolbar will appear under this button. So if I edit the Toolbar again, and, maybe, add
the Magnetic Lasso Tool and the Magic Wand Tool, and I have a need for them, I can find
them under this icon here. Also, when working with the custom panels, if you want to delete
one, you can just click on Delete Workspace, and you can delete the workspace that you
created if you don't want to use that anymore. And, this is a quick tip, if you accidentally
delete one of the default workspaces, for example, the Essentials workspace, and you
want to get it back, you're going to have to go into the Preferences, so you can press
Ctrl K, Command K on the Mac, bring up the Preferences Window. You could also go into
Edit, Preferences, and there it is, Ctrl K, Command K on the Mac. And under workspace,
just see here on the side, Workspace, you'll see these options here, and one of the options
is Restore Default Workspaces. Click on that, press OK, press OK again, and notice that
the Essentials Workspace is back, and it did not delete my custom photography workspace.
And that's it for this tutorial. I hope that you enjoyed it and that you learned something
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