Grant…
I like silly tricks like this. It’s comforting to know that you can, if you want, which I wont.
However, it didn’t work for me but what I did discover was that if I double click in the gray workspace the Open Dialog starts ( I already knew that), but if you hold shift and double click you get the File Browser and Ctrl + double click gets you the New dialog. Alt + double click gets you Open As…..none of which I knew.
Now with a 102 Key keyboard I should have all the other combinations worked out by about the year 2365.
Colin
Colin
Even superer silly pet tricks.
Now if you want my trick to work don click on the Work Area but click on the Active Image Area. that is the area around an image when you expand the real state around the image. Try maximizing this and then do the silly little trick. It wouldn’t be silly if it were obvious :).
Grant
…what I did discover was that if I double click in the gray workspace the Open Dialog starts ( I already knew that), but if you hold shift and double click you get the File Browser and Ctrl + double click gets you the New dialog. Alt + double click gets you Open As…..none of which I knew.
Colin, I love you! I was griping just the other day about the shortcut toolbar not being in CS and had resorted to using Ctrl+O. You’ve just made my day…no make that my year!
Why don’t they put these little tips in the manual??? I did look, by the way.
Patti
Right, been there, done that, returned to gray.
BTW: I was looking at a Video Tutorial supposedly on PS CS but in fact the guy was using version 6 and he had files and folders actually in the gray workspace. Not sure how useful that would be but I’d like to know how. It was a Mac so maybe it’s a Mac thing.
Patti….
If Adobe did that we wouldn’t have as much fun on this forum.
Colin
he had files and folders actually in the gray workspace
‘Fraid so, Colin. It is a Mac thing. The gray area was not the win workspace but his mac desktop, which is always visible unless your image takes up the whole screen.
Gosh…gonna have to dash out and buy a Mac now in case I want to do this one day….. 🙂
Colin
Colin,
It is worth dashing out and getting a Mac 🙂 …. The floating desktop is really useful, especially if you are doing a tutorial as you can have the tutorial open on the desktop and are able see it whilst you have Elements open.
Wendy
Works for Mac as well, if you enlarge the window of the active image, without zooming in the image as well, you may see that grey area. You can change it with the same key combination (shift – paint bucket)…
Ray
Hi Grant
I was just wondering how to change that grey color the other day, what good timing. I was geting bored with all the grey and changed my crop color to a bright green, nice change.
On a related subject does anyone know what happens when the image is taken out of its window and put on a grey background covering other images and the active image’s window. I must touch something with my stylus by accident to make it happen.
Also how do I return to the normal screen view. This can get really annoying. Can this grey also be changed?
Steve
Most people who are serious about color quality stay with gray since other colors can change the way we perceive color thus making alterations less accurate.
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Have A Nice Day, 🙂
James Hutchinson
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Hi Grant
Also how do I return to the normal screen view. This can get really
annoying. Can this grey also be changed?
Steve
