Share Your Photoshop Workspace

[photolynda]

My family recently took a trip to a local drive through wildlife reserve and my husband and I took a total of 338 photos. After putting them on the computer, I loaded them in Adobe Bridge to preview and eliminated all but about 150. Upon closer examination, there are maybe 75 I want to consider editing. Not major transformations or anything, just a little cleaning up and maybe popping on a little pretty.

I am in photo editing hell. 75 shots may not seem like a lot, but it’s taken me a week and a half to get two thirds of the way through them.

Just a few moments ago, I rearranged my Photoshop workspace and I feel it’s going to be much more conducive to a speedy workflow. Previously, my old workspace looked like this. Now it looks like this:




From left to right, top to bottom, here are the palettes I have open:

1. Tools Not much to say about this one. Pretty much everyone needs to have this open!
2. Histogram I’m trying to rely on the histogram more and more to tell me how the shot is exposed, so I like being able to see this at all times.
3. Info Even though I don’t print as many photos as I should, ever since reading Smug Mug’s tutorial on skin tone I’ve been using the info palette so I can see if the percentage of Magenta is higher than Yellow.
4. History I like having this open so I can quickly undo my actions from a certain point. I also make use of snapshots to quickly jump between different edits or points in editing and that’s also done through this window.
5. Navigator This window is especially helpful when working on the photo at its original size or zoomed in.
6. Actions My actions used to take up a whole column, but I’m using them less now so I need less space. Most of the actions pictured here are ones I created for myself to use!
7. Layers Also not much to say about this window. It’s pretty critical to have this palette open when editing photos since I love using adjustment layers, actions and textures.

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