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Creative Tip: Turn OFF Docking Windows in Photoshop.

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PS-WindowDockingPref-250px.pngPhotoshop CS4 introduced document tabs that make it easy to switch between a variety of open images. It’s a terrific feature that I usually like a lot.

But there are days the tabs feature drives me crazy! If you’ve ever dragged one Photoshop window over another, only to have it sucked in as a new tab, you know what I mean.

So for you, a checkbox in Photoshop’s Interface preferences: Turn off "Enable Floating Document Window Docking" and say goodbye to that annoying feature.

Source: Working with lots of small images for our tips newsletter, this is one of the very first preferences I disabled in CS4. Adobe even posted a recent technote covering how to How to un-tab image windows in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 11:43 am and is filed under Creative Tip. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “Turn OFF Docking Windows in Photoshop.”

  1. Judy Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    One of the features I truly miss from PSE is the photo bin that can be shown at the bottom of the window. Same concept as the tabs except it showed thumbnails and made it so easy to pull images in as new layers. I think most PS users don’t ask for it because they don’t know about it.

  2. Genius Bloggers Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 4:20 am

    Great post!!!Nice buddy i really liked your post!!!

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