Setting Up Photoshop

There are millions of ways to set up your workspace in Photoshop.  It is totally a personal preference thing.  This set up is the one that we have found a good baseline to start…

Open Photoshop

• Go to the Window Menu
• Choose “Workspace” then essentials (now we are going to customize the workspace).
• On the right hand side of your screen, you’ll have several palettes.  We are going to delete and add several.
• Pull the following palettes out of the menu:
  • Color
  • Swatches
  • Libraries
  • Adjustments
  • Styles
  • Channels
  • Paths
• X out each of these palettes – we don’t use them frequently.  Now you should just have your Layers palette to the right.
• Go to the top menu “window” and choose “Actions,” Tool Presets, and History.
• Bundle these three palettes together.
• Pull the Layers palette out of the docked position and attach the bundled “Actions” and “Tool Presets” and History to the bottom of the layers.
• Move Layer Palettes back to the side docked position.

Load SRP Actions

• Go the the Shared Google Drive
• Open the folder SRP Action Set
• Save SRP Actions file (.atn file) to your computer
• Save SRP Tools Preset File (.tpl file) to your computer
• In Photoshop, go to your Actions Palette
• Click the menu on the right side of the Actions Palette (looks like three horizontal lines)
• Click “Load Actions”
  • Choose the .atn file that you just downloaded
• Go to the Tool Presets Palette
• Click on the menu on the right side of the Tool Presets Palette
• Click “Load Tool Presets”
  • Choose the .tpl file that you just downloaded