From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

Working with multiple documents - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with multiple documents

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how to work with multiple open documents in Photoshop. So starting in Bridge, I'm going to Click + Drag to select all of these images, and I'll use Command + O on Mac or Control + O on Windows in order to open them into Photoshop. So the images open up as tabs, and we can click on each one of those tabs in order to view that image. We can also click and drag if we want to reorder the documents, and if we want to cycle through our open documents, we can use the shortcut Control + Tab, and that's the same both on Mac and Windows, in order to move through the open documents. Now, if we want to view multiple images at once, I can choose the Window menu and a range and choose from any of these different tile options, or I can simply select Tile, and Photoshop will choose a layout for me. To return to viewing one image, I'll choose Window, Arrange, and then Consolidate All to Tabs. If I want to float a window, I can click and drag on the name of the image until I see that it's no longer docked, and then, it is floating in the document. Now, I can drag this to a second window if I'm using two monitors. I'll go ahead and drag out this second document, and I'll dock it with the cracked clay by just positioning it on top of it, and when I see the cyan rectangle around the file, I know that they will dock together. So here, they're tabbed. We can click on either tab in order to view it, but one thing to be wary of is when you are floating documents, if I were to click or target on this image back here that is tabbed, the other ones will be hidden. They'll be behind it, but you can always locate them by going under the Window menu, and at the bottom, all of the open documents will be listed. So I can choose cracked clay, and those floating documents will come back to the foreground. All right, I can either consolidate all of these to tabs by choosing Window, Arrange, and then Consolidate All to Tabs, or we can drag the top white bar until it's in that tabbed area and release the cursor. All right, to close documents, we can click on the little X next to the file name, or we can use the file menu and choose to close the open doc and choose to close the targeted document, close all of them, or if we wanted to, we could leave the targeted document open and close all of the others. For now, I'll go ahead and Close All, and there you go. It's just that easy to work with multiple documents in Photoshop.

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