Working with Screen Modes in photoshop

Working with Screen Modes
While panel docks make it simple to hide and show panels,
your image still doesn’t use all of the available screen

Pressing Shift-F cycles through the
screen modes.

space. You can use the Screen Mode pop-up menu in the
Application bar to solve this problem.


Standard Screen Mode
By default, Photoshop uses the Standard Screen Mode
(Figure 1.6). You’re probably used to working with this
mode, with the name of your document at the top of the
document window, and possibly scroll bars on the side and
bottom of that window.





















Figure 1.6 The Standard Screen Mode is Photoshop’s default. (©2008 Dan Ablan.)


Screen Arrangements
The new CS4 Application bar resides just below Photoshop’s
menu bar. (On Windows, the Application bar is part of the
menu bar; on a Mac, it’s separate.) The Application bar
offers a few new tools, but for now we’ll concentrate on the
two tools that most affect the workspace.









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If you can’t see the Application bar,
make sure that it’s enabled: Choose
Window > Application Bar.

If you click and hold down the Arrange Documents icon
in the Application bar, Photoshop displays a set of options.
The first option is Consolidate All, which is how you can












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maximize an image’s size onscreen. If you have multiple
images open, choose one of the other options, such as
Tile All in Grid, Tile All Vertically, or Tile All Horizontally
(Figure 1.7).























Next to the Arrange Documents pop-up menu in the
Application bar is the Screen Mode pop-up menu. Here,
you can choose from Standard Screen Mode (shown in
Figure 1.6), Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar, and Full
Screen Mode. Another option in the Arrange Documents
pop-up menu is Float All in Windows. How does this
option differ from using Consolidate All? Good question!
If you’re using the new Application Frame (found in the
Window menu), loaded images are docked into neat tabs
across the top of the screen (Figure 1.8). Choosing Float
All in Windows automatically pulls these images out of
their docks and floats them individually. If you’d like to
return an image from floating to docked position, drag the
image’s title bar until it becomes transparent as you move
it near the menu bar. At that point, drop the image to dock
it. Conversely, you can drag an image out of its docked
state to make it float. One more thing to note: If you have