On 26 Jan 2007 06:44:05 -0800, ""
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On Jan 26, 8:26 am, Jethro wrote:
I am having a devil of a time trying to re-locate palettes. I want to re-arrange them and even lock one onto the bottom of another. I read how I am supposed to be able to move (drag) one palette to the bottom edge of another, release the mouse, and thereby lock the two palettes together. Supposedly as I do this, I should see the bottom edge of the target palette highlight, signaling the lock. I don’t see this. Any ideas why? Or should I say why not? Is there a preference (option) somewhere affecting this?
Thanks
Jethro
That’s the way it works in Illustrator but not Photoshop. Dock refers to having the palettes distributed across the top in the Palette Well of either the control bar or of detached palettes. I think there are more advanced palette handling capabilities coming in CS3. Most experts use a separate monitor for palettes. I would like to do that some day.
Good luck,
Ron
Really?
I thought Lee Bennett at this site was saying that I could do what I described.
http://www.atpm.com/13.01/photoshop.shtmlwhich said in part:
If reordering the tabs isnt enough, theres an often-overlooked palette organization feature that allows you to stack multiple palettes as one tall window. To do this, start by dragging a tab as if you were going to move it to another palette window. Normally, the entire border of the new window will highlight in black to tell you thats where youre going to drop the tab. To instead attach it to the bottom, touch the mouse pointer to the bottom edge of the palette window, and youll see just the bottom highlight in black. When you release the mouse, the attachment is complete. You can then add more tabs to this new section of the overall palette window, or attach another tab beneath, making it even taller. Of course, you can also insert a tab between two attached palettes by touching the separator between them.
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In this image, I am preparing to attach a fourth palette beneath three that are already attached. Note the black highlight on the bottom of the Swatches palette that reveals Im about to attach a new palette below. Remember, you must drag palette tabsnot the title bar above the tabs.
Dragging the title bar instead of the tabs simply moves the entire palette (or stack of palettes) elsewhere on your screen. Youll note that the edges and corners of the window outline being dragged will visually snap to other palette windows, the purpose being to help precisely align the windows to taste. Youll also find that the Tool palette can snap to the other palette windows. Since it does not have a tab, it is not possible to combine it with other palette tabs in a window, nor attach it to the bottom of window.
But then – this does not make it so.
Thanks
Jethro