{"id":15662,"date":"2008-12-30T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T09:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/12\/photoshop-hidden-menu-items.html"},"modified":"2008-12-30T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T09:53:47","slug":"photoshop_hidden_menu_items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/photoshop_hidden_menu_items\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop & hidden menu items"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Pogue asked a good question the other day:<\/p>\n

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Is there any way to make CS4 stop<\/em> hiding menu
\ncommands it doesn’t think I want?  Or is every menu selection an additional
\nclick now…?<\/p>\n

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I knew what had happened.  By default Photoshop doesn’t hide menu items.  If you use the workspace switcher (screenshot<\/a>) in the upper-right corner of the app, however, you may end up changing more than panel (palette) locations.  You may apply a menu configuration that hides certain menu items. <\/p>\n

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In CS4 the "Basics" workspace hides some of the more advanced\/esoteric menu items.  The idea, of course, is to slim down the application so that it’s less overwhelming to new users.  Once you’ve applied this workspace, menus will be shorter & will feature an entry for "Show All Menu Items" at the end.  Photoshop does <\/em>pop a dialog box asking whether you want to apply a workspace that changes menus and\/or shortcuts, but I think it’s one of those dialogs that makes people say, "Uhhhh… I don’t really want to think about this… so, ‘Yes’?"<\/p>\n

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Long story short<\/strong>, to get things back to normal, just choose the "Essentials" workspace (which is the default).  Photoshop will reset panel, menu, and keyboard shortcut settings.<\/p>\n

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Frankly this area of PS remains a work in progress.  We’ve been slowly building up ways to customize your work environment (workspaces, editable keyboard shorcuts & menu configurations, and now Configurator<\/a>), but I don’t feel we’ve really "tied the room together" yet.  I’d like to see Photoshop (and other Suite apps) ship with workspaces that truly present "everything you need, nothing you don’t" on a moment-by-moment, task-by-task<\/em> basis.  Lightroom takes this approach with its modules, but I think we can go much farther.  (And let me add, lest anyone freak out, that I imagine all of this being optional.  No one wants to compromise the very general, highly flexible work environments the CS apps present today.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Pogue asked a good question the other day:   Is there any way to make CS4 stop hiding menu commands it doesn’t think I want?  Or is every menu selection an additional click now…?   I knew what had happened.  By default Photoshop doesn’t hide menu items.  If you use the workspace switcher (screenshot) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}