Photoshop troubleshooting - all my tool palettes have all disappeared!
You spend ages setting up your palettes exactly how you like them in your workspace, and then you maybe knock the keyboard and they all disappear! This can be infuriating for people working in Photoshop, especially those who are just learning.
This is both a blessing and a curse - but once you know what causes it you will be working away at full speed in no time. In-fact, once you know this little shortcut you will be using it all the time to really maximise your working area (unless you are blessed with a dual monitor setup!).
You simply have to hit Tab on the keyboard - this hides AND reveals all palettes, which allows you to view your whole image without all the clutter of the tool palettes getting in the way!
There is also the option off the top menu Window>Workspace>Reset palette locations - which surprisingly does what it says on the tin! It puts all the palettes back into their default locations. An option on the same menu ‘Default Workspace’ should be avoided, as this will reset all the palettes back to default. This means any custom styles, brush sets, actions etcetc that you have will unload themselves (you did remember to save these didn’t you!) and Photoshop will literally go back to how it was when it was first installed… not a great idea as you will have to spend some time loading in all your custom stuff again. You can see why ‘Reset palette locations’ is a much better choice!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Oh my. You saved me.
And to think it was something so simple. =]]
April 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Hi
I have another problem, when I use the menu “Image size”, it sort of comes up somewhere, but I can’t find or see it, I have tried everything…
What can I do !?
Thanks
Carsten
April 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Carsten - I guess you are using a PC (I use Macs mainly, but have a fair bit of experience with PC’s too). If you are sure that you have tried hitting ‘tab’ as discussed above, there are a few possible things that may be causing this:
- Your Photoshop preferences may have got messed up - try reading this post http://www.photoshopninja.com/2007/04/deleting-photoshop-preference-files/
- Are your menus ok in other applications on your computer? If not, this indicates a problem with your Windows installation or graphic card/driver issues.
- The only other thing to try is uninstall and reinstall Photoshop
April 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
It worked, thanks a lot
Carsten
July 25th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I knew about Tab, but was still having this issue…Window>Workspace>Reset palette did the trick. Thank you!