Having worked for years on a PC, I’m accustomed to seeing a blank ‘grey’ area that fills the screen, hiding the desktop, when Photoshop is opened. Now I own a Mac (I am so green it’s embarrassing; learning a new OS is not too easy, but not as hard as it was to learn on PC) — can anyone tell me if it’s a ‘Mac’ thing to see your desktop and any other open windows when working in an open application? It’s really distracting and I cannot find any preferences to adjust. Basically I don’t want to see anything but the normal PS palettes and open documents.
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Ramon — thanks for the reply, however I’m not looking to work full screen mode (I can do that on a PC too) because then it only allows me to see one file at a time. Sometimes I have multiple files open within PS; on the Mac this is when I see my desktop and any other apps that are open. All I want is for PS to take up the full screen so I cannot see anything else.
Is this clear as mud? Would a screenshot help? Is this because I have a trial version of PS?
option click on the desktop from other applications, hides them (most PC users I know have no idea how many programs run in the background; I do, I’m in control : )
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Set your desktop to an image of plain grey. You can create that in Photoshop easily and make it the exact grey you want. That way you will always have the grey background instead of what you are seeing now.
I never notice the desktop showing through, being used to Macs, but I do leave it at a fairly neutral blue shade that doesn’t distract from the photos I have open in Photoshop.
You can set your Finder preferences to not show disk icons on the Desktop (and of course don’t add your own), which along with the gray Desktop image, will essentially give you a clean and non distracting background. You can make the dock disappear also if you wish.
It’s very easy to switch between open applications, and you can drag images back and forth between some application document windows, such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Not impossible, but difficult to do on a PC.
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