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Essential Photoshop preferences

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Essential Photoshop preferences

- [Instructor] In a perfect world, Photoshop would be optimized for each and every machine in which it was installed. Unfortunately, that's not the case. And furthermore, it's hard for Photoshop or I guess, Adobe, to know exactly how we intend to work. So let me show you some key preferences that I like to change when I set up Photoshop on a new machine or when you take your computer in for repair and it comes back with a reformatted hard drive as recently had to me. I digress. So, one of the new things that you'll find in Photoshop is what they refer to as the Home screen. And within other Adobe applications such as Illustrator and In Design, they refer to this as the Start Workspace. Regardless of what it's called, it's basically this environment that we're seeing here in Photoshop when you launch it. You'll notice that one of the things that it now does is provides, you know, some guided tours and down here at the bottom you can see your recent documents. There's also some…

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